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Jack Antonoff Says a Bad Mushroom Trip After His Sister Died Stopped Him from Doing Drugs: 'I Completely Lost My Mind'

Jack Antonoff described how a bad experience taking mushrooms while also grieving the death of his sister Sarah kept him away from drugs at a time in his life when he was vulnerable in a new interview with Apple Music.

In a new interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe on Tuesday, Antonoff, 39, reflected on a time growing up when he and his friends would "get really f---ed up" on pills, before the fentanyl epidemic made them inherently dangerous. "We were touring a lot and I was obviously just so f---ed up emotionally that I took a whole bunch of mushrooms one night with some friends and I completely freaked out," he recalled, referring to a time when he was grieving her death. The lead singer of Bleachers talked to Lowe, 50, about the commercialization of grief today, saying that he recently learned there are more TikTok videos about domestic abuse these days than beauty products.

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