Kid Cudi Talks Mental Health With Jada Pinkett Smith

Kid Cudi was the latest guest on “Red Table Talk,” the Facebook Watch talk show hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Jada's mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris. Cudi discussed mental health and the circumstances surrounding his checking into rehab in 2016.

Cudi said it was the pressure of being a hero to so many people that steered him wrong: “I have to live up to be this person, and I don't feel like that. It's like doing a comedy but you're miserable. It's like my life was like this show and I was always supposed to be on, but when the show was over I was completely miserable. I'm just trying to keep it together, because, Kid Cudi, everybody's hero, this person that you look up to. I didn't want to let anybody down.”

Cudi turned to drugs to deal with his depression, and he kept his drug abuse a secret, even from his friends. “I went out of my way to keep what I was going through hidden because I was ashamed."

You can watch the whole interview here.