MGK Celebrates a Year of Sobriety After Rehab: ‘Constant Tightrope Walk’

MGK is celebrating a full year of being “completely sober.” The rock musician stopped by Bonnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast on Monday and shared that he hasn’t drunk alcohol since August of last year after spending time in rehab.

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“I’m completely sober from everything. I don’t drink anymore. I haven’t drank since last August,” he said.

On the podcast, the musician shared that he had gone to rehab shortly after wrapping a European tour in 2023. “I didn’t tell anybody outside of the [people] closest to me,” he said. That was my first time I ever went to rehab. They just gave me so many ways to operate the body, show where this anger is coming from, and methods to quell it.”

“I met with a lot of psychiatrists, some who gave up on me and many therapists who did the same,” he continued. “But I ended up falling into an awareness of what my condition is and have made peace with it. It’s a constant tightrope walk.”

Podcast host Bunnie — who’s married to MGK’s “Lonely Road” collaborator Jelly Roll — shared that she had invited him to a “drinking contest” with her and Roll and that MGK had declined.

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“It just kills me because I just know I would have fucking drank that man under the table,” MGK joked, sharing that staying sober has been “hard” before commending his girlfriend Megan Fox for helping him throughout the sobriety process.

“Megan has for sure been extremely helpful in dealing with the kind of psychological withdrawals that come with [sobriety],” he said.

“I continue to embrace that this journey is gonna be hard for me, but I accept it and forgive myself,” he added. “I’m also really hard on myself, very self-deprecating. So, I guess, I’m just happy that I’m able to start to be comfortable enough to show people who I am, because I kind of depended on my art to do that.”

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