Death, Drugs & Disease — Inside Pete Davidson’s Tragic Life Story
The comedian has suffered through a long series of shocking setbacks.
Dec. 17 2018, Published 8:39 p.m. ET
Pete Davidson has a long history of suffering, from losing his dad in the September 11 terror attacks and fighting his borderline personality disorder to dealing with rehab and breaking off his engagement with Ariana Grande. Click through RadarOnline.com's gallery to find out more about his life story.
Pete Davidson’s was just a young boy when he lost his firefighter father, Scott Davidson, in the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City. “My big thing is trust,” he has said of his dad’s death. “One day he was here and the next day he was gone.”
Davidson, 25, has been open about his battles with marijuana addiction. After an extended absence from Saturday Night Live in 2017, he told fans: “I quit drugs and am happy and sober for the first time in 8 years.” Unfortunately, though he considered himself a “lucky man,” he would continue to struggle.
The comedian suffers from Crohn’s Disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract. “There was a point where I couldn’t get out of bed,” he recently noted of finding out he had the autoimmune issue when he was a teenager. “I was 110 pounds.” Davidson also said his “stomach would be in pain all day” and he “wouldn’t be able to eat.”
Crohn’s Disease isn’t the troubled funnyman’s only health woe. He was recently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. In late 2016, he revealed: “I started having these mental breakdowns where I would, like, freak out and then not remember what happened after. Blind rage.”
“I found out I have BPD, which is borderline personality disorder,” he explained, adding he treats the problem with therapy and medication. “One of my psychiatrists diagnosed me. He was always saying before this big meltdown, ‘You’re probably bipolar or borderline, we’re just going to have to figure it out.’ … I’m depressed all the time.” He added:
“This has been the worst year of my life, getting diagnosed with this and trying to figure out how to learn with this and live with this.”
As RadarOnline.com reported, Davidson hasn’t always made the best choices when it comes to his social circle. On Aug. 11, his friend, Joseph Gay, 47, was arrested for drug possession while hanging out with the SNL comedian in the early morning hours.
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Before his broken engagement with Ariana Grande, Davidson admitted he was a loser in love. Recently, it was reported he popped the question to his ex, Cazzie David, 24, more than once, but she said no every time. They broke up last May, and he began seeing Grande soon after.
As RadarOnline.com reported, Davidson had no better luck with Grande, and their recent split has been creating havoc for him and those around him. On Dec. 15, he posted a disturbing suicidal confession on social media, writing that he did not “want to be on this Earth anymore.”
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