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- Leslie Jones recalls struggles with drugs before her "SNL" days: 'I did not know how it was affecting me'</p>
<p>Lauren HuffJuly 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM</p>
<p>Steve Granitz/WireImage Leslie Jones</p>
<p>Leslie Jones is looking back at some difficult times in her life before she made it big in Hollywood.</p>
<p>In a wide-ranging interview in The Guardian, the comedian and Saturday Night Live star opened up about her struggles with grief and drug use after the deaths of her parents and brother in the 2000s.</p>
<p>Particularly after her brother died at 38 in 2009, Jones says everything in her life was affected, including her style of comedy. "I was evil — not evil, just angry," she told the outlet. "Performing, and angry. My routine was raw, it started getting to where I thought: 'I don't give a f--- whether you all laugh.'"</p>
<p>She continued, "I was destroying it. That's when I started wearing a mohawk. People thought I did it for fashion – no, I just didn't want to comb my hair. I was bare minimum getting out of bed." She told the outlet she was also taking drugs, and not just marijuana. "I mean drugs drugs. Speed," she said.</p>
<p>When asked why she did speed, Jones admitted, "Because I was having sex with a guy. I mean, listen, if we're going to be honest, let's be honest. He was hot, first of all. He was really good in bed. And he would do speed, so I did it because he would do it. I did not know how it was affecting me."</p>
<p>She said she recalls being pretty nihilistic about the drugs at the time, until she had a "hilarious" epiphany. "I was like: 'Hey, everybody's gone; if it's time for me to die, then I'll die.' Then I saw this couple, who you could tell were on drugs, and I thought: 'That's going to be you if you don't stop this foolishness.' I busted up laughing. That was hilarious."</p>
<p>Jones has been open about her use of drugs in the past, particularly weed. She even wrote in the description for her memoir, Leslie Fcking Jones, "Now, I'm gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a btch is fifty-five and she's smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL."</p>
<p>Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Leslie Jones on 'Saturday Night Live'</p>
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<p>Of course, things started to look up for Jones, who got the SNL gig in 2014, first as a writer and then a cast member. But, she was still grieving, and she credits series creator Lorne Michaels with being instrumental in getting her into therapy.</p>
<p>"I was not acting out, but I wasn't well," she recalled. "I wasn't cognizant of how my behavior was affecting others. I remember Lorne texting me; I had said, 'I'm so sorry how I'm acting,' and he said, 'I talk to my wife about a lot of things, and she says: 'I am so glad you are talking about these things, but can you not talk about them to me? Can you find somebody else?' That's when SNL found me a therapist."</p>
<p>Jones is on tour Sep 19 through Nov. 22.</p>
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