French Montana revealed he has been sober for over a year.
The 36-year-old rapper realized he was ‘out of control’ after excessive indulgence in drugs and alcohol mixed with exhaustion landed him in the ICU for two weeks in 2019.
Montana told XXL that the incident forced him to ‘take two steps back’, and also made him realize he had been ‘overdoing something for too long.’
Two steps back: French Montana, 36, is a year sober after realizing his partying had gotten ‘out of control’ following a two-week stint in the ICU for cardiac issues caused by overindulging in pills and alcohol; pictured September 2019
The Unforgettable rapper was rushed to the hospital on November 21, 2019 for cardiac issues – just 11 days after his 35th birthday – as he shared what he believed to be the underlying catalyst.
Saying it was ‘a combination of a lot of things: being fatigued, dehydrated, you know, losing myself chasing money, chasing the wrong things,’ he said he was overworked and also had a predilection for pills.
French confessed he would take Adderall to stay up and Percocets for pain relief which he said became a ‘hobby.’
‘I was runnin’ for like a good 20 years without a break, and God put a stop to that,’ he shared as he said, ‘too much drinking, too many pills, you know, boom.’
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Overdrive: The Unforgettable rapper said ‘too much drinking, too many pills, you know, boom,’ as he said he now knows how unhealthy his lifestyle was though he could not see it at first; pictured October 2019
Not being able to see the magnitude of his problem at first, Montana, who once dated Khloe Kardashian, revealed:
‘People seen I was out of control, not me, you know what I’m saying? Cause, it’s almost like working out. You don’t see you getting big cause you see yourself every day. It’s the same thing with you being out of control.’
Now drug and alcohol free since his day of hospitalization on November 21, 2019, he now says ‘sober is becoming my new high.’
Feeling accomplished through the hardship of battling sobriety French said: ‘I think that was like the hardest thing I ever did in my life, to snatch myself back.’
‘For me to stop everything and just step back, that was like one of my biggest accomplishments,’ as he said he also detoxed from social media.
Head high: He now says ‘sober is becoming my new high,’ while sharing that his sobriety was the ‘hardest thing I ever did in my life’; pictured a year sober on November 29 2020
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