KJ Apa is getting candid about the extent of his struggles with addiction.
The 29-year-old Riverdale alum made an appearance on the WIldmen podcast with Dylan Sprouse and Brendan Columbus, where he opened up about getting sober and the extreme lengths he used to go to for certain addictions, including food.
“I’ve been sober a year and a half. Anything that makes me feel good, yeah, I will abuse. It’s something that I’ve learned about myself,” KJ began to explain.
“I mean, even eating—my relationship with eating, especially on that show, was bad…I used to eat donuts all day long. Go back to my trailer, throw up. Let me tell you the story. This is gnarly. This is a gnarly story,” he then went on to say. “But it’s honestly the perfect way to explain that addictive quality that I had, that I will always have.”
“I’ve identified it. I know what it is, and now I know how to talk to it. So I was quarantining in Vancouver. I quarantined like three times, dude, which means I had to stay in my apartment for two weeks. I wasn’t even allowed to go outside, which, by the way, is gnarly enough for addictive people…for one week of that, I think one of them I didn’t even sleep. I was awake. I was awake doing things I shouldn’t have been doing,” KJ said.
“And then this one time I was quarantining. I was in a house with two of my friends on the show, and I was trying to be sober. And not, you know, smoke weed or anything. And I remember I was so hungry. I was also trying to lose a lot of weight because I was going back to work. And when I’m on a vibe of, “I’m trying to get into shape,” I’m like beast mode. I’m obsessed about it.”
“I ordered all of this McDonald’s. I ordered like three Big Macs, a bunch of McNuggets and stuff, fries, a milkshake, and I ordered it. It’s like 2:00 a.m. I’m about to beast mode this thing. I slam like half of it, and immediately it’s like… (sighs) the regret just hits in. Why did I do that?” KJ recalled.
“I piss on the rest of the food…I took it outside. I pissed all over it. I go throw up all the food that I ate. I’m not done,” he continued.
“I go back outside about 20 minutes later after lying there in bed being like, I’m hungry again, because all the food is now out of my body. And when you do that, you get hungry again really quickly. I went downstairs. I go outside. It’s there, right? And I start eating around the piss. I ate the rest of the food and left the soaking piss food there. I could have just ordered more food. You know what I mean? I needed to have it right now.
“But I’ve got heaps of stories like that,” he admitted. Watch him explain above.
He also revealed why Cole Sprouse once punched him in the face.
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