Halsey Says Mac Miller’s Death Gave Her the “Courage” to Leave an Unhealthy Relationship

MM MM November 17, 2020

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In a discussion with Armchair Expert podcast host Dax Shepard, the singer Halsey says that Mac Miller‘s accidental overdose in September 2018 was a “turning point” in her life. “This is a terrible thing to say because I think it puts a positive connotation on a heinously tragic event, but it gave me the courage and the faith to leave the relationship I was in,” she explains. “It gave me that real f–king reality check that I needed and I think it probably did the same for a lot of other people too.”

Halsey adds, “I was lucky enough to be in a position where I was like, ‘Okay, cool I’m not ruining my life yet,’ but I never would’ve expected some of the people that I know and loved and lost—to see them go down that path so aggressively and so rapidly. I kind of recognized the spiral early and was like, ‘Alright, now I know.'”

At the time, Halsey claims she was in a relationship with an unidentified individual who used drugs.

“As a result, my currency of expressing love with them became doing drugs with them,” she shares, later adding, “There was a lot of infidelity in the relationship too. It was like if I don’t do it with you, you’re going to go do it with someone else and then probably f–k them and I’m going to take you back anyway because this is what we do.”

Additionally, Halsey was struggling with bipolar disorder, making it difficult to cope with the nature of their relationship

One of the first steps of doing that was removing myself from a situation where there’s a literal chemical interference,” Halsey says, explaining, “I’m going to remove myself from that, figure out what my baseline is and then kind of fix it from there.”

Since then, the artist has gotten sober and began taking medication for bipolar disorder, which she says has “changed my f–king life.” According to Halsey, she didn’t take antidepressants or other medications because she feared they would “interfere with my creative process.”

Now, the “Be Kind” singer says she refuses to romanticize drug abuse or unhealthy relationships in her music, something that she thinks Mac did really well. Halsey says that she always loved his music because he was “writing with responsibility.”

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