Pete Davidson Sober, Expecting First Child

Pete Davidson says a tearful conversation with his mother while he was in treatment — when she told him her biggest fear was turning on the news to see her son had died — was the decisive moment that pushed him toward sobriety. He says he paused his tour to enter a wellness facility and credits sobriety and therapy with making him more present; he has publicly battled substance abuse as well as PTSD and borderline personality disorder. Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt are preparing for their first child, and he describes wanting to be “a solid rock” father and to give the child a happier, more stable childhood than the one shaped by his father’s death on Sept. 11. Insiders and Davidson himself say both parents are excited, and the couple have been preparing the nursery and planning for parenthood. Davidson frames recovery and impending fatherhood as a meaningful new chapter he is grateful to enter sober and supported.