Rapper Machine Gun Kelly Says He’s Been Sober For A Year, Credits Megan Fox With Helping Him

Rapper Machine Gun Kelly revealed that he’s “completely sober from everything” and credited his girlfriend actress Megan Fox with helping make it happen.

Speaking on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast, the 34-year-old singer said that he’s been sober for over a year now after he secretly entered a rehab facility in 2023, something only those very closest to him knew, Billboard magazine reported.

“I’m completely sober from everything. I don’t drink anymore. I haven’t drank since last August,” the rapper — born Colson Baker — said. “Megan has for sure been extremely helpful in dealing with the kind of psychological withdrawals that come with [sobriety].”

“I didn’t tell anybody outside of the [people] closest to me,” he added of entering a rehab facility. “That was my first time I ever went to rehab. They just gave me so many ways to operate the body, show where this anger is coming from, and methods to quell it.”

Baker said he met with psychiatrists and therapists before he accepted his “condition,” admitting he “went the f*** off” with drugs in his 20s.

“It’s a constant tightrope walk,” MGK said of sobriety. “I continue to embrace that this journey is gonna be hard for me, but I accept it and forgive myself. I’m also really hard on myself, very self-deprecating.”

MGK Celebrates a Year of Sobriety After Rehab: ‘Constant Tightrope Walk’

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“I love that I’m clear when I look at the person I love,” Baker continued. “I’m really happy that I’m clear when my daughter [Casie] and I are having our conversations and I’m coming from a place of being centered and holding space for what a child needs from their parent, which is patience and advice.”

Kelly and Fox made headlines in January 2022 when the actress announced the two were engaged. A year later, rumors surfaced that the two were reportedly “on a break” following cheating rumors about the rapper and their wedding plans were reportedly stalled, as previously reported.

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“They are very hot and cold,” a source told US Weekly at the time. “They have stalled wedding planning to work on their issues.”

The “Transformers” star later took to social media and shut down cheating rumors as being the cause of their troubles.

“There has been no third party interference in this relationship of any kind,” Fox wrote on Instagram. “That includes, but is not limited to… actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons.”

“While I do hate to rob you of running random baseless news stories that would have been much more accurately written by ChatGPT, you need to let this story die and leave all of these innocent people alone now,” she added.

Kelly has a daughter from a previous relationship. Fox was previously married to actor Brian Austin Green, and the two share three children. Their divorce was finalized in 2022.

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Feds Arrest Pakistani Man With Ties To Iran For Alleged Plot To Kill Trump: Report

Federal law enforcement officials announced on Tuesday that they have arrested a Pakistan national with ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran for allegedly leading a serious plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump.

Authorities arrested 46-year-old Asif Raza Merchant in New York on July 12, the day before 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“Merchant orchestrated a plot to assassinate a politician or U.S. government officials on U.S. soil,” the DOJ said. “In approximately April 2024, after spending time in Iran, Merchant arrived in the United States from Pakistan and contacted a person he believed could assist him with the scheme.”

The person whom he contacted immediately contacted law enforcement and became a confidential source (the CS), assisting law enforcement in their investigation.

Merchant told the CS in June that his assignment was to recruit hitmen who could carry out three objectives, including stealing documents or USB drives from a target’s home, planning a protest, and killing a politician or government official, court documents said.

Merchant wanted the CS to plan the assassination and warned that the target would have security “all around,” the DOJ said. Merchant, who allegedly indicated that he was being directed by individuals in either Iran or Pakistan, said that the assassination would take place after he left the country and that they would use secret code words to communicate.

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Undercover federal law enforcement agents posed as the hitmen who would carry out Merchant’s assignments and agreed to a $5,000 payment to carry out the crimes.

“Notably, when the FBI arrived at his residence to execute the arrest as well as a search warrant for the residence, Merchant refused to exit his residence for approximately 20 minutes after the FBI announced their presence and the search warrant,” court documents said. “During the search, law enforcement agents searched Merchant’s wallet and found the handwritten note inside with the code words that Merchant invented to communicate with the CS about the assassination plot.”

While court documents did not specifically name any of the proposed targets, the New York Daily News said that a source indicated that Trump was one of the targets that Merchant discussed.

The U.S. Secret Service had reportedly been tracking an Iranian assassination plot in the weeks prior to Crooks shooting the president last month. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently said that Iran is trying to ruin Trump’s presidential campaign.

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