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5 days ago
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Kid Cudi Reveals 'Rock Bottom Moment' When He Relapsed That Led to Rehab and Sobriety: 'I Thought I Was Past That'
The rapper's memoir 'Cudi: The Memoir' is available for purchase wherever books are sold NEED TO KNOW Kid Cudi got candid about his "rock bottom moment" during an appearance on Call Her Daddy The moment led the rapper, whose real name is Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, to get help in rehab Cudi's memoir, Cudi: The Memoir, is available for purchase wherever books are sold Kid Cudi is getting candid about hitting "rock bottom." During the Wednesday, Aug. 13 episode of Call Her Daddy, the "Pursuit of Happiness" musician and author of the new book Cudi: The Memoir, spoke about his "rock bottom moment" and how he was able to get help by going to rehab. Cudi, 41, explained the low point occurred led him to rehab from 2015 to 2016. "I relapsed and started using again," he said. "It was like the decline getting just darker and darker and darker. And um, suicide was on my mind like all the time. Like I would like daydream about this s---, you know?" he continued. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "When I relapsed and was kind of faced with this reality, like, damn, it's been six years since I've used this s---' and I thought I was past that — and I'm obviously not," said Cudi. "That was f------ me up, you know?" The rapper noted he felt like he was "going in circles" and wanted to be "off this s---" because he was older. "Like, people don't want to keep seeing you be a f---up. You got to get your life together, bro. You're not in your 20s no more. You're not just out here," he said. "It was kind of like this reality check I needed and I went and got help." Cudi, whose real name is Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, said he was glad to have gotten help when he did, because "something would have happened for sure." He continued, "Ever since then I haven't been like — yeah, I get down about some things, but then I get over it. Like before s--- would hit me for like weeks, something bad happens, I'm like in the house for weeks just like miserable." He added that "ever since 2016, I've been like a thousand times better." The rapper mentioned he once told his wife Lola Abecassis Sartore about an incident where he got arrested in 2010. When reading the news article about it, she laughed, and in that moment Cudi "found peace" after thinking it was "a dent in my armor" for so long. During an appearance on CBS Mornings, Cudi recalled suffering a stroke in 2016 while he was in rehab. "I was watching TV in the rehab center and my vision got crossed. Like when you cross your eyes and how it looks. It was like that, but my eyes weren't crossed," he recalled. "And I kept closing my eyes and I would open them up again and they would still be crossed. It was like that for 10 or 15 minutes and I was freaking out because I didn't know what the f--- it was.' Cudi said that he didn't notice what happened until the following mornng when his speech and movement were "slow." After a doctor's appointment and getting tested, he found out he had a stroke. "In that moment, I was nervous, I was super scared because, you know, your motor skills are all changed, and I was just hoping to God that I got my s--- back," he said. "The doctor told me, he was like, 'You're 32 years old. You'll be able to bounce back from this. If this would've happened in your 40s, we'd be having a different conversation right now, so you're lucky,' " Cudi remembered. Cudi: The Memoir, published by Simon & Schuster, is a story of "survival," "through depression, addiction, isolation, and doubt. In his own words, Scott charts the journey back to himself, offering hard-earned lessons on vulnerability, reinvention, and the courage to keep going." The memoir is available for purchase wherever books are sold. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health challenges, emotional distress, substance use problems, or just needs to talk, call or text 988, or chat at 24/7. If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP. Read the original article on People
CBS News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Kid Cudi reveals some of his darkest moments amid rise to fame in new memoir: "There was a huge spotlight on me"
Kid Cudi isn't holding back. In his new book, "Cudi: The Memoir," the rapper – whose real name is Scott Mescudi – reveals some of the darkest hours early in his career, and how he managed to turn the page. "I was running to the grave. I had a death wish and I was so dark and suicidal," Mescudi said of the start of his career, when he was around 25 years old. In an interview that aired Wednesday on "CBS Mornings," Mescudi told CBS News senior culture correspondent Anthony Mason that the haunting memory inspired the song "Grave," featured on his new album, "Free," scheduled to be released later this month. Mescudi grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland. At 11 years old, he lost his dad to cancer. Nearly a decade later, he left his hometown for New York City. There, he met a producer who went by the name Dot da Genius, and was invited to move in with him and his family. "Dot's dad is single-handedly responsible for the rise of 'Kid Cudi,' you know," Mescudi said. Together, Dot and Mescudi changed hip-hop. Mescudi found a unique way to carve out his own identity in the music industry: he was honest. "You never heard a hip-hop artist say they're lonely," explained Mescudi, referring to the lyrics in his hit song "Day 'n' Nite," which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Solo Performance. He was even embraced by Kanye West. "Standing next to Kanye really, you know, his fame kind of bled into my world. And there was a huge spotlight on me early that I just wasn't prepared for that," Mescudi said. The sudden success was overwhelming, and Mescudi admits he turned to drugs. "The reason I was doing cocaine was so I could maintain, so I didn't blow my brains out," Mescudi said. In 2016, while in rehab, he suffered a stroke at 32 years old. His doctor told him that because he was young, he could "bounce back from this." Mescudi left rehab thinking, "If I ever do cocaine again, I'm going to die." He's stayed clean ever since. In May, Mescudi returned to New York to testify in the sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs. Combs was acquitted in July of sex trafficking and racketeering, but convicted on prostitution-related counts. He will stay in jail until his sentencing hearing in October. "It was really hard. I didn't want to do it. I got subpoenaed," said Mescudi, recalling he made eye contact with Combs at the time while on the stand. He told the court that Combs broke into his house in 2011 after finding out he was dating the music mogul's ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura. "I knew I was helping Cassie. I just wanted to be there and help her out," he said, adding, "I know I did the right thing, so that's all that matters." But Mescudi said the backlash to his testimony was swift. "I had a lot of people that supported me, but there were a few that were -- had some opinions about it," he said. "It was interesting because I'm not no street dude. I don't live by no code, you know? So I guess it's because I'm a rapper. People just threw that on me. But, like, my music has never been about that and I have never tried to pretend I was about that." Mescudi's relationship with Kanye West, now known as Ye, is more complicated. He describes them as "polar opposites" who once worked on the same frequency. He described their fallout as "really heartbreaking" and says it's a "sad thing" that their partnership is over. "I think he has [broken my heart] over and over multiple times," Mescudi said. "Just the code of friendship. He's said some things that there's just no coming back from." Specifically, Mescudi mentioned Ye's disparaging comments about the late Virgil Abloh, his former creative director. Abloh, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton and founder of the brand Off-White, collaborated with both Mescudi and Ye. "Every time he took a dig at Virgil, it just made me super angry. Virgil was an angel to everyone," said Mescudi, noting that Ye's remarks continued even after Abloh's death from cancer at age 41. To Mescudi, there's no coming back from that. "I loved Kanye, you know, I really loved him. He was part of my life changing and at some point he was a really good friend, you know. But the man he has become – I just don't know that guy anymore," Mescudi said. But Mescudi is looking ahead to his next chapter in life. He married fashion designer Lola Abecassis Sartore in the South of France in June. He joyfully recalls the moment his "hands started shaking" as he got down on one knee to propose to her at a temple in Kyoto, Japan, in December 2023. The achievement that he is most proud of is being the father of 15-year-old Vada Mescudi. "See me in parent mode or Uncle Scott mode, I'm on fire," he said. Kid Cudi's new book, "Cudi: The Memoir," is now available.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
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Diddy Asks Judge to Strike Kid Cudi Car Explosion Claims From the Record Amid Sex Trafficking Trial
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' defense team is seeking to strike Kid Cudi's claims about a 2012 car explosion — and Diddy's alleged involvement — from the record amid the disgraced star's ongoing sex trafficking trial. (Diddy has denied all the charges against him.) TMZ and People reported on Monday, May 26, that Diddy's team filed court documents to have a portion of Cudi's testimony struck, claiming that the "Day 'n' Nite" rapper's allegations about the 2012 incident were 'mere speculation' and posed 'significant dangers of unfair prejudice.' Diddy's team said a "witness generally cannot testify that in his opinion, a declarant was lying when making a statement,' referring to Cudi's claims on the stand last week that Diddy 'was lying' when he denied involvement in the explosion of his Porsche vehicle during a meeting in Los Angeles. Cudi — real name Scott Mescudi — took the stand during Diddy's ongoing trial on Thursday, May 22, and discussed his relationship with Diddy's ex and fellow trial witness, Cassie, with whom he had a relationship in 2011 while she and Diddy were on a break. (Diddy and Cassie dated on and off from 2007 to 2018.) A Complete Timeline of All the Allegations in the Diddy Trial: Freak Offs, Kid Cudi's Car and More Cudi said that in 2012, after he and Cassie had broken up, his dog sitter called him to tell him that his car was on fire. "The top of my Porsche was cut open and that's where they inserted the Molotov cocktail,' he testified. Following the car incident, Cudi alleged that he met up with Diddy at the Soho House in Los Angeles. 'Sean Combs was standing there with his hands behind his back like a Marvel supervillain,' Cudi claimed, adding that his fellow rapper said they were 'homies' and said he didn't understand why Cudi would date Cassie. 'He kept offering me water. It was weird that he was so calm,' Cudi continued, noting that he found Diddy's demeanor 'off-putting.' When Cudi asked him about the car, Diddy allegedly gave him a 'very cold stare' and replied, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' Years later, the two men had a second meeting at Soho House, where Diddy allegedly told Cudi he was sorry for the past. 'Man, I just want to apologize for everything, all that bulls***,' Cudi recalled Diddy saying, adding that the Sean John founder brought one of his daughters to the meeting. Why Kid Cudi's Dog Is a Point of Contention at Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Sex Trafficking Trial 'After that apology, I kind of came to peace with all of it,' Cudi told the court. 'That's the last thing I was expecting to get.' In her own trial testimony earlier in May, Cassie claimed that Diddy found out about her romance with Cudi in 2011 when he searched through her emails during a 'freak off' and found a correspondence between her and Cudi's team about bringing a toiletry bag to a house. Cassie alleged that Diddy subsequently lunged at her with a 'wine bottle opener.' Cassie also claimed that Diddy threatened to blow up Cudi's car and wanted Cudi's friends to be there to witness it. Diddy is currently on trial on charges including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges and denied all of the allegations against him.
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
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NEWS OF THE WEEK: Judge denies Sean 'Diddy' Combs' bid for mistrial
The hip-hop mogul's lawyers had called for a mistrial in his federal racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking trial, alleging misconduct by prosecutors in the case. They argued that prosecutors had improperly suggested and implied through questioning that Combs was involved in the destruction of evidence tied to the investigation into rapper Scott Mescudi's (Kid Cudi's) car being firebombed. Their request was quickly denied by the judge. "There was absolutely no testimony from the witness that was prejudicial in any way, shape or form," Judge Arun Subramanian countered.
News.com.au
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Judge denies Sean ‘Diddy' Combs' bid for mistrial
The hip-hop mogul's lawyers had called for a mistrial in his federal racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking trial, alleging misconduct by prosecutors in the case. They argued that prosecutors had improperly suggested and implied through questioning that Combs was involved in the destruction of evidence tied to the investigation into rapper Scott Mescudi's (Kid Cudi's) car being firebombed. Their request was quickly denied by the judge. "There was absolutely no testimony from the witness that was prejudicial in any way, shape or form," Judge Arun Subramanian countered.
