Macklemore admits relapse

In an interview with Complex, music artist Macklemore admitted that he had relapsed into drug abuse with marijuana and sleeping pills in 2014, to deal with “the pressure and the fame”.

 

The Thrift Shop rapper told the magazine, “The pressure and the fame — everything. All the clichés, man, like not being able to walk around, having no privacy, from this TV appearance to this TV appearance, the criticism, the lack of connection and the lack of meetings — all of that put into one pie was just... I just wanted to escape.”

 

However, he finally stood firm on his decision to sober up when his fiancée and tour manager Tricia Davis and him discovered last September that they were going to have a baby together.