Pete Davidson has revealed he was high on ketamine at Aretha Franklin’s funeral. During his new Netflix special, Turbo Fonzarelli, the former Saturday Night Live cast member admitted his behavior was embarrassing at the 2018 funeral of the soul singer.
“I was so high I thought it’d be a good idea to go up to her family and go, ‘Hey! I’m just here to pay my R-E-S-P-E-C-Ts,” he joked. “I’m embarrassed I was out and about like that. That’s not cool.” Davidson added that if Aretha Franklin had known what was going on, she would have said, ‘”Hey! Who are you and what the f### are you doing at my funeral?’” He noted that she will “never know” he was high, acknowledging, “Still, it’s not the point.”
Pete Davidson attended the funeral with then-fiancée Ariana Grande, who performed at the service, singing one of the Queen of Soul’s greatest hits “You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.”
The Bupkis star has been in rehab several times, including in 2017 and 2019, the years before and after he attended Franklin’s funeral. Last June, he also entered a rehab facility, reportedly to help him with borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).