Halsey says Mac Miller's death gave her the "courage" to leave an unhealthy relationship.
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The 'Without Me' hitmaker has revealed the rapper's "heinously tragic" passing from an overdose in 2018 gave her a serious "reality check", and she subsequently decided to leave her partner at the time and get sober for the sake of her mental health, as she was taking drugs with the unnamed ex so they wouldn't cheat on her.
Speaking on Dax Shepard's 'Armchair Expert' podcast, Halsey - who has bipolar disorder - said: "This is a terrible thing to say because I think it puts a positive connotation on a heinously tragic event, but it gave me the courage and the faith to leave the relationship I was in.
It gave me that real f****** reality check that I needed and I think it probably did the same for a lot of other people too."
She continued: "I was lucky enough to be in a position where I was like, 'OK, cool I'm not ruining my life yet,' but I never would've expected some of the people that I know and loved and lost - to see them go down that path so aggressively and so rapidly.
"I kind of recognised the spiral early and was like, 'Alright, now I know.'"
The 26-year-old singer added: "As a result, my currency of expressing love with them became doing drugs with them ... there was a lot of infidelity in the relationship too. It was like if I don't do it with you, you're going to go do it with someone else and then probably f*** them and I'm going to take you back anyway because this is what we do."
Leaving the relationship was key to getting herself sober.
She explained: "One of the first steps of doing that was removing myself from a situation where there's a literal chemical interference.
"I'm going to remove myself from that, figure out what my baseline is and then kind of fix it from there."
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