In his new Hulu documentary ‘Life in Pink’, Machine Gun Kelly, 32, revealed that he once attempted suicide, while on the phone with Megan Fox, 36.
The rapper who is no stranger to battling depression, found himself in a really bad place following the death of his father in July 2020.
Kelly said, “I was in a really dark, dark, dark place one day.”
“I wouldn’t leave my room and I started getting really, really, really dark. Megan went to Bulgaria to shoot a movie and I started getting this really wild paranoia. Like, I kept getting paranoid that someone was gonna come and kill me,” he said.
Kelly, whose real name is Colson Baker, described the harrowing night saying he ‘just f**king snapped’.
At that time he found himself calling Fox while she was filming a movie. “I called Megan. I was like, you aren’t here for me. I’m in my room and I’m like just freaking out on her,” Kelly recalled.
“Dude, I put the shotgun in my mouth. And I’m yelling on the phone and like the barrel’s in my mouth,” MGK continued. “And I go to cock the shotgun and the bullet, as it comes back up, the shell just gets jammed. Megan’s like dead silent.”
MGK went on to explain that his darkest moment, along with support from Megan and his 12-year-old daughter, Cassie, helped him realize he needed to get himself together.
“I was like, I need to kick the drugs for real this time,” he told producers.
His suicide attempt was not the only troubling story told in the film. At one point, in the footage Kelly discussed the scary moment he and his daughter had a ‘gun pulled’ on them.
He remembered thinking, “I was like I guess we’re gonna do this with my daughter in the car?”
Colson Baker had a difficult relationship with his father, who kicked him out of the house when he was young. His father died in 2020.
“I feel like the world hates me. But, I never gave up,” he said in a trailer for the doc. “Ninety percent of my fans listen to me because of the pain they relate to in my lyrics.”
Life in Pink is currently streaming on Hulu.
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