Machine Gun Kelly in a 'f***ed up place for months' as he admits anxiety fears
Machine Gun Kelly has opened up to fans about his anxiety fears and has explained why he has been quiet on social media in recent months.
The 30-year-old rapper had seemed on top of the world last year after admitting he had fallen in love with girlfriend Megan Fox.
It now turns out that the artist, whose real name is Richard Colson Baker, has been having some personal issues, which he has now revealed in an Instagram post.
On Monday, he shared with his followers that his anxiety had returned at that he had been feeling “f***ed up for months.”
He told his 7.5 million followers: “I just wanna say to my fans I’ve been in, kind of like, a f***ed up place personally for a couple of months in my head.
“So, I haven’t been that active on socials.”
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While MGK had some difficult news for his fans, he did have some pleasing results from the premiere of his musical film, Downfalls High.
The movie was released on Facebook on January 15, and MGK wrote: “I just got a call from the label about Downfall Highs . The premiere weekend, we got 12 million views on Facebook, dude.”
He later corrected himself and said it had now reached 16 million views and he exclaimed on Instagram: “I’m, like, tripping out.”
While Kelly has not gone into detail about his difficult time at the moment, he did tweet over the weekend: “Anxiety’s eating me alive.”
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Kelly has often been open about his life and in a chat with Dave Franco for Interview, he spoke about his relationship with his late father, who passed away in July 2020, and his abuse of Adderall in the past.
He said: “I came from a father who was extremely religious and extremely strict, and wouldn’t even let me hold my pen the way I wanted to hold my pen.
“That made me rebel completely, and cut off communication completely, because I didn’t want to have any common ground with him.
“I don’t want to have that with my daughter. Honesty is the key to that relationship.
“But also, as I grow, that same person who I was when I was 25 isn’t who I am now. Currently, my drug of choice is happiness and commitment to the art, rather than commitment to a vice that I believed made the art.”
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