Mulaney went to rehab for cocaine and prescription pills, including Adderall, Xanax, Klonopin and Percocet, while living in New York City in 2020. After splitting from ex-wife Anna Marie Tendler, he relapsed.
After what he called a “star-studded intervention” in his Netflix special Baby JMulaney went back to rehab from December 2020 to February 2021.
He said of his addiction, “There was a time when I would have told you I couldn’t fly, sleep or perform unless I had a Klonopin.
“I thought I had serious light sensitivity on stage. The spotlights had to be at a super low level. The front row had to be lit, because I thought I had a spatial…not a fear of heights, but something like that. I would have said : ‘It sucks, because I don’t always do that want to to take Klonopin and Xanax, but I to have Unpleasant.'”