Kid Cudi Says He Used to Smoke ’15 Blunts a Day’ Before Going to Rehab: ‘It Truly Ruled My Life’

Kid Cudi has opened up about how he needed a stint in rehab to curb his marijuana use. On the heels of releasing a new album and his memoir, People sat down with Cudi earlier this week, and during the chat, he admitted there was a point he was smoking 15 blunts per day.

“I just was in this place where I was abusing it,” Cudder said. “I was really abusing it. I was smoking maybe 15 blunts a day, wake up in the mornings, get high. It truly ruled my life.”

After getting out of rehab, Cudi stayed away from smoking weed for two months and then restarted a healthier relationship with marijuana, which he has under control now.

“And now I just get after it at night or on the weekends when I have the free time and I’m just relaxing, but I’m not smoking nowhere near as much weed as I was smoking before,” the Ohio rapper explained. “A joint lasts me all day, damn near. So my relationship has changed with that in a major way. And I’m just more interested in being sober a lot more and being more present.”

Cudi’s memoir arrived on Aug. 12, which finds him baring his soul and delving into his turbulent journey filled with stories of loss, love and battling addiction. An early excerpt from the memoir revealed Cudi nearly died of a drug overdose circa 2010.

“I was at peace with dying,” Cudi wrote. “After doing more coke than I ever had in my life I was losing all sense of what was real. I’d been alone in my New York apartment, crying for hours, listening to the Lykke Li song ‘Time Flies’ on repeat. It was a love song, but the melodies and her voice filled me with despair.”

He continued: “It was peace I was after. Here, crippled on the floor, minutes from overdosing, was the closest I’d ever come to finding it. ‘You made great music that people loved,’ I thought, ‘but this is the end.’”

On the music side, Kid Cudi released his Free album on Aug. 22, which boasts 13 tracks and no featured guests.