Macklemore is revealing he relapsed with drugs last year. In a candid new interview with Complex, the “Can’t Hold Us” singer, whose real name Ben Haggerty says he had a lapse in his sobriety last year during a whirlwind year of success and fame. The Grammy winner told the magazine, “I held it together for a while. But, eventually, I stopped going to my 12-step meetings. I was burnt out. I was super-stressed. We weren’t sleeping—doing a show every day, zigzagging all over the country.” Macklemore says finally got sober when his fiancée Tricia Davis got pregnant with their first child and added, “Since I heard that Tricia was pregnant, I was like, I need to grow up right now. I’ve gotten back to what makes me happy.”
