John Mulaney spoke frankly about his public battle with drug addiction and his recovery in his GQ Man of the Year profile published Tuesday. As the outlet noted, his pre-recovery stand-up was clearly “as drug soaked as a 1970s Stones record” but that somehow wasn’t clear at the same time, despite his own observation that “I very much tried to tell everyone.”
To illustrate his point, Mulaney recounted a week in 2020 when he did so much cocaine he worried he’d die. He told GQ, “I left the door to my apartment open. I can’t explain the logic, but I was going to hit the door buzzer and tell the doorman to run and get the paramedics.