“Drugs were a crutch,” the superstar, born Abel Tesfaye, continued. “It was me thinking that I needed it. And not doing the work to figure out how not to need it. And I’ve spent the last few years realizing that and thanking God that I don’t need it. Because for a lot of people, it’s hard to shake it. But I knew I didn’t want it.”
When pressed further about playing the “long game” and using drugs, the “Blinding Lights” hitmaker confessed one of the reasons he wanted to stop using the hard drugs was because he wants to have a family someday.