When did Kid Cudi check himself into rehab? Rapper gets candid about severe overdose and mental health in new memoir

Kid Cudi checked himself into rehab in October 2016. In his forthcoming memoir, Cudi: The Memoir, which is set to release on August 12, the rapper gets candid about a severe drug overdose and his struggles with mental health.

As per the excerpt from his upcoming memoir, published on GQ, Cudi writes,

"I was at peace with dying. You made great music that people loved. But this is the end."

Cudi recalled collapsing on the floor and feeling paralyzed by his physical and emotional weight. Cudi was under a drug overdose while working on his Man on the Moon II album, which was released in November 2010. He writes,

"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 Lykke Li song 'Time Flies' on repeat. It was a love song, but the melodies and her voice filled me with despair."

Although the artist and his music have been a haven for many fans, in his memoir, Cudi confessed that, at the time, he struggled to "find his own way" and did not feel like a "role model". He continued,

"I tried to get up off the bed, but my legs wouldn't work, so I collapsed to the floor and started to crawl. Eventually, I gave in and just laid on the ground. My heart was racing. It felt like it was going to burst any minute."

More about Kid Cudi checking into rehab

According to a BBC report, at the time when Kid Cudi checked into rehab in October 2016, he took to his official Facebook page, announcing,

"I am not at peace. I haven't been since you've known me. If I didn't come here, I would've done something to myself. I simply am a damaged human swimming in a pool of emotions everyday of my life."

In August 2022, Cudi, during an interview with Esquire Magazine, recalled having a stroke two weeks after checking himself into rehab for his mental health. Cudi spent a few months in physical rehab to recover from the stroke, which had landed him in the hospital and slowed his movement and speech.

After the event, Kid Cudi's manager and childhood friend Dennis Cummings encouraged him to take a break from music. Cudi's mother, Elsie Mescudi, also spoke to Esquire about praying with her son and visiting him every day in rehab.

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"The hardest thing I have ever had to do was wait until they were ready for him to call me. It was the best thing that could have happened to Scott. There is no saying, 'My child won't do this. My child won't do that'. If you’re a parent, you can’t say that. You don’t know what they’re going to do from moment to moment, and certainly, when you get to the point where your career blew up overnight, it’s a very difficult thing."

In his forthcoming memoir, Kid Cudi bares it all, from his relationship with drugs, career, and the struggles he has overcome.

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