Drake Confesses He ‘Got High’ Before ‘Degrassi’ Audition
In promotion for the start of his It’s All A Blur Tour with 21 Savage, Drake spoke about his greatest fears. He admitted that he “got high” before his audition for the coming-of-age Toronto-based show Degrassi.
“Someone asked me the other night what my biggest fear is, and I’ve never really had a good answer for it, but my answer was that all this is for nothing,” he began in the video post. “The idea that one day life ends and it just all goes black.”
“I go back to this day when I was like 13 or 14. I had an audition for a TV show that ultimately shaped my life,” he explained, referring to Degrassi. “Before my audition, I went to this kid’s house. And I, out of, I guess, a desire to be accepted, I would succumb to peer pressure, and I got high with these kids right before my audition.”
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“You know, maybe I’m still high, maybe I’m in some coma. And this is just, like, me playing out my ideal life,” he pondered. “That concept has stuck with me for a lot of years.”
He added that his life “feels like reality, it feels tangible” to him, but admitted, “I definitely wonder sometimes.”
Drake starred as a basketball player and rising rapper Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi from 2001 to 2009. Brooks’ life changes when he is shot and paralyzed from the waist down. He infamously reunited with his Degrassi costars in his 2018 “I’m Upset” music video. In the music video, Drake was joined by Shane Kippel (Spinner), Miriam MacDonald (Emma), Lauren Collins (Paige), Cassie Steele (Manny), and Nina Dobrev (Mia). Ephraim Ellis (Rick) who shot Drake’s character, also appeared in the music video and was seen running away from the Degrassi classmates.
You can take “I’m Upset” music video below: