Interview · moment 3 of 25
Hospital Seizures, Getting Sober, and Losing Peers to Drugs
from #223 - Lil Xan | The Tim Dillon Show · #223
3 min
Guest
Lil Xan describes his five-seizure hospitalization after trying to quit Xanax and oxycodone cold turkey, feeling like the best he's ever felt now sober, and reflects on deaths like Mac Miller and Lil Peep as warnings about drug culture in music.
- Tim asks about a recent hospital scare; guest describes having five seizures after trying to quit oxycodone and Xanax cold turkey.
- Guest explains he's felt better sober than ever before, describing sobriety as its own type of high and a shift in mental clarity.
- Guest argues drugs can help creativity but aren't necessary, and that sobriety allows for finding balance and alternative inspiration.
- Tim notes that comedy used to have many more drugs until so many people died, asking if recent tragic deaths are making people reconsider how they live.
- Guest reflects on losing talented artists like Mac Miller and Lil Peep to drugs, acknowledging both the immediate loss and how addiction has always claimed young people in the spotlight.
- Guest reveals he was an addict for ten years, starting cocaine use at age thirteen and struggling until age twenty-five.
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