He started getting isolated, he wouldn’t respond.”īut after finally facing “my bulls – – t” in rehab, Cudi says, “I’m in such a happier place … And knowing that I’m at a better place with me, with Scott, that I love myself, that I’m happy, I just hope fans can see that.” “When he started doing it, I couldn’t talk to him no more, like, I couldn’t get to him no more. “The cocaine s – – t scared me deeply,” says LaBeouf. “People look up to me, but I’m not a happy person, so a lot of the times I felt like a fraud,” he says, “and that’s what drove me to the dark side.” Kid Cudi shares how he went to rehab after having suicidal urges in “A Man Named Scott.” Courtesy of Amazon StudiosĬudi even drove away his BFF LaBeouf. Still, he couldn’t shake all of his demons, and in 2015, he even sang about killing himself on his single “Confused!” Feeling “empty inside,” Cudi relapsed on cocaine. I don’t think I woulda quit if people didn’t find out about it.” “But I’m glad I got arrested, because that’s when I quit. “I remember I got out of jail, and I was ashamed because I grew up with two uncles that were addicted to crack,” he says. “And I would do interviews with sunglasses on, and I’d be on cocaine, and I’d just be, like, sitting there answering these questions, ’cause that’s the only way I could talk about stuff like that.” Kid Cudi discusses his battles with depression, anxiety and drug abuse in “A Man Named Scott.” Courtesy of Amazon StudiosĪfter getting arrested in New York in 2010 on charges of criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance, Cudi had a wake-up call. “ would be like, ‘Oh, when you lost your dad at 11 years old, what was that like?’ ” he says.
“When I would do shows, I didn’t feel anything.”Ĭudi used cocaine to cope with the anxiety that came with finding stardom and losing his privacy. “It was a little bit of a nightmare for me, because I wasn’t right with myself,” says Cudi. “I accomplished what I came to New York City to accomplish, but I was miserable, man … There would be some nights where I’d be at the club, and I would just run out the club and run for blocks, and I would hop in a yellow cab trying to get away from my security.” Longtime Kid Cudi collaborator Kanye West is featured in the new documentary “A Man Named Scott.” Getty Images for BelvedereĪlong the way “from being Scott to being Kid Cudi,” he got lost. “I just really found it hard to be happy,” he says in the doc. But it was a long journey to recovery for this 37-year-old artist, whose emo hip-hop has inspired everyone from his longtime collaborator Kanye West and A$AP Rocky to actors Timothée Chalamet and Shia LaBeouf - all of whom are interviewed in “A Man Named Scott.”Īfter the breakout success of “Man on the Moon” - which also featured the hit “Day ’n’ Nite” - Cudi struggled with his newfound fame. 4, 2016, Cudi - whose real name is Scott Mescudi - revealed that he checked himself into rehab. When he started doing it, I couldn’t talk to him no more, like, I couldn’t get to him no more.’ Shia LaBeouf, on losing touch with Cudi during his ‘isolated’ dark days.Īnd in an emotional Facebook post Oct.
And I knew that if I didn’t go get help, that something woulda happened … I just had to get my s – – t together.” Shia LaBeouf, Kanye West and Timothée Chalamet are interviewed in the new Kid Cudi documentary “A Man Named Scott.” NY Post Photo Composite Kid Cudi’s “A Man Named Scott” documentary premieres on Amazon Prime Friday. I was suicidal, and I was at a place where I was trying to plan it.
“I had just started using again, not happy with myself that I allowed myself to go back to that after all these years,” Cudi says in the new Amazon Prime documentary “A Man Named Scott,” premiering Friday. On his visionary debut album, 2009’s “Man on the Moon: The End of Day,” Kid Cudi opened up about his “Pursuit of Happiness.” But after years of battling depression, anxiety and drug abuse, the influential rapper-singer found himself in such a dark place that he was contemplating suicide in 2016.
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