Machine Gun Kelly Reveals He Came VERY Close To Shooting Himself During Phone Call With Megan Fox
28.06.2022 - 02:11
/ perezhilton.com
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We knew Machine Gun Kelly went through some mental health struggles, but to hear about such a close call so recently is really eye-opening.
The Bloody Valentine singer revealed in his new documentary Life In Pink that he very nearly ended his own life just in the past few months — during his relationship with fiancée Megan Fox. In fact, he was on the phone with her when he went so far as to put a shotgun barrel in his mouth.
So scary.
The rocker opened up about hitting a low point one night in July 2020 while mourning the death of his father. He said in the Hulu doc:
MGK explained he always kept a shotgun next to the bed. So on this day when he “just f**king snapped” the deadly weapon was right there within arm’s reach. He recalled how he reached out to Megan for support — but that it didn’t help, and he grabbed the gun:
What a close call. If it hadn’t jammed, what would he have done?
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Thankfully, it did. And that moment gave him the time to realize “something’s not right.” So he listened when Megan and his daughter Casie gave him a sort of intervention, with each telling him how they felt about what was going on with his mental state — apparently partially fueled by drugs. They told him, respectively, “‘I want to like, see you as my father’ and ‘I want to see you as my husband-to-be'”:
While we’re glad he was able to quit the drugs — and that he seems to have hit a milestone with his mental health as well — he did sound like he’s tied some of his happiness to Megan. As he said in the doc, she “became the sun” to him:
Well, we’re happy for them. But we do hope despite the high highs he’s