Pete Davidson was high on ketamine at Aretha Franklin’s funeral

Pete Davidson had quite a message lately Aretha Franklin‘s family at her funeral while high on ketamine.

“It’s embarrassing, though, when you stop using ketamine,” Davidson, 30, said during his Netflix special Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli, which premiered on Tuesday, January 9. “I was on the road in no time. That’s not cool, you know? I was at funerals like that. That’s screwed up, right? I was so at Aretha Franklin’s funeral.

Joking that Franklin will “never know” he was on the drug, Davidson said she probably would have asked him, “Hey, who are you?” And what the hell are you doing at my funeral?’” (Davidson attended the funeral as a then-fiancée Ariana Grande‘s plus one.)

“It’s humiliating. I’m so high that I thought it would be a good idea to go to her family and say, ‘Hey, I’m just here to show my RESPECT,'” he recalled.

At the 2018 funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, Grande, 30, performed her rendition of Franklin’s “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” Grande had previously sung the tune during her performance at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon the day of Franklin’s death in August 2018. (We weekly confirmed at the time that Franklin died at age 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.)

This is not the first time that the Saturday evening live alum has opened up about using ketamine. While standing next to the stage John Mulaney And Jon Stewart during their “Jon, John & Pete” tour in September 2023, Davidson revealed that he had been using the drug for four years.

Earlier that year, multiple media outlets reported that Davidson entered rehab after struggling with PTSD and borderline personality disorder. Weeks before Davidson’s alleged admission to the facility, Us confirmed that he was charged with reckless driving after crashing his car into a house in Beverly Hills, California. (TMZ was the first to report that Davidson lost control of the vehicle while driving with then-girlfriend in March 2023 Chase Sui wonders. He was not arrested at the time and authorities did not believe drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident.)

In July 2023, Davidson was placed under a diversion program, which allows eligible defendants to skip jail time if they complete treatment and education classes. Davidson was ordered to complete 50 hours of community service and 12 hours of traffic school, as well as complete a mortuary course on victims of reckless drivers, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.