Machine Gun Kelly’s new album Lost Americana came out last Friday, which is why MGK has been giving interviews packed with head-scratching statements. Last week the headline was that he claims to eat solid foods only a “couple of times a week,” and when he does indulge it’s kimchi and sauerkraut. On Sunday, MGK appeared on Watch What Happens Live, where host Andy Cohen thwarted MGK with the following question: “How old are you?” After stumbling over his words a little, MGK eventually said “I don’t know if it exists,” ‘it’ being his age. Oh, and MGK thinks he’s part alien. I mean, sure, I can see it. But MGK’s reason for questioning his lineage was more than a bit gory:
“It’s a weird thing, dude,” MGK told host Andy Cohen during the August 10 episode of Watch What Happens Live. “I don’t know if my age—I don’t know if it exists.”
Beyond having no idea how old he is, it turns out there are quite a few things the 35-year-old doesn’t know about himself.
“I just don’t know many facts about my life,” he admitted. “Like my skin, if it rips open, it heals really quick. There’s just things where I’m starting to be like, ‘Who’s my dad?’”
So, when he was asked if he thought he might be from another planet, the idea didn’t seem too far-fetched.
“Yeah, I’ve asked my mom,” MGK—who shares kids Saga Blade, 4 months, with Megan Fox and Casie Colson, 16, with ex Emma Cannon—quipped. “‘Was there any period of time you went missing, like off the Earth? Was there ever like a tall slender creature?’ She told me she felt like she got abducted at one point.”
Alien or not, the songwriter has also been sparking romance speculation with Sydney Sweeney—who split from her fiancé Jonathan Davino in March—after they were seen chatting at the grand opening of Las Vegas’ Palm Tree Beach Club in May. But when asked about it during a fan Q&A portion of the episode, he avoided the topic.
“MGK, Kyle P. wants to know if there’s any truth to the rumor that you and Sydney Sweeney were more than just friends,” Andy read from the fan submissions, to which MGK responded with a quick, “Kyle P., shut up dude.”
And while the response sparked some laughter from the seated audience, fans on social media were not as satisfied by his answer—or lack thereof.
“He never answered the question tho,” one user wrote on TikTok, while another added, “So… that’s a yes.”
I actually thought the WWHL setting was good for MGK, or maybe it’s that Andy Cohen was totally receptive to his oddball energy and deft at bringing out the awkward guest. Andy Cohen is a safe person to come out as an alien to, I guess is what I’m saying. As for MGK claiming not to know his age (or “if it exists”), a few things: 1) Andy tried to play it off as MGK having a Mariah Carey-esque relationship with time, and a look flashed across MGK’s face that seriously made me wonder if he knew who Mariah Carey is, 2) Dare I ask if there’s a birth certificate? I’m sure TMZ is tracking it down as we speak, and 3) Maybe MGK would remember his age (and other details of his life)… if he resumed eating solid foods. Just a thought.
Photos credit: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon, Roger Wong/INSTARimages, B4859/Avalon. MGK is shown with his 16-year-old daughter, Casie, at the Kids’ Choice Awards.
I find it fascinating that some people get into the rich and famous space yet still seem normal/grounded in reality and while they may not always have time to do things like shop for groceries would still be fine with doing it while others seem to exist in an alternate dimension where the surround themselves with people who enable their oddest quirks and they disconnect from reality.
Obviously MGK is a long way from the fame or wealth of someone like Mariah but he appears to be treading the same path.
Imagine being bored out of your mind, with a couple millions in your bank and a high profile ex, well at least in gossip media standards. He’s probably staring at social media all day in, all day out, looking for stories about him and Megan. When he’s not shopping for stuff he don’t need. This dude is booored af. When you’re this dazed, any weird star seed alien language con starts to make actual sense, instead of the absolute crud that it is.
IDK, if he’s got time and money, there are a million things he could fill his days with that aren’t staring a social media or longing for soup.
– Spend time with his kids, learn another language, learn to make kimchi or sauerkraut, volunteer, take up tap dancing, repair lamps, grow dye plants and create beautiful fabrics and yarns, do a storyCorps type interview podcast about random people telling stories about their lives. Commit random acts of kindness for someone else … Or heck, just track down his birth certificate and get his birthdate tattooed somewhere so he doesn’t forget it again.
People who have so much and are just empty and up their own *** … such a waste, and boring too.
He needs to eat more protein. And fats. I think his restrictive diet is causing some issues, along with him just being weird for headlines (IMO)
imagine the gas…. kimchi and sauerkraut
He gave his daughter a car for her birthday, she was so excited.
Weird! That is all.
Maybe he should check his Wikipedia page
I mean, he was high during this interview, right? or he just wants to be weird to get some press. Or both.
I was going to say, if you do enough drugs long term I’m sure you start to lose connection to things like “age” and “reality.” I’m sure he doesn’t feel quite human, he’s probably spaced out a lot of the time. And he needs to eat
Milquetoast masquerading as unique
Not to be a bummer but “i am an alien” has become a popular online culture and its heavily mixed up in anti-science,anti-vax, “wellness” grifts, white supremacy and QAnon. I’m not saying thats what’s happening here, but it is a thing. Here is a recent video about it by a fun YouTuber. https://youtu.be/t37hBssRe70
It’s been a thing for decades — probably long before Gods of Aquarius came out in 1976, but that’s when it started to break out of the more extreme pockets of New Age fringe thinking.
My initial thought was he did a sweat lodge ayahuasca retreat and this was the result.
This dude needs psychiatric help.
Good grief. Like his outfit though. His full body tattoo: that must have HURT.
He is supposedly sober after in patient rehab after the November breakup with Megan. He also claims to have done acid for 30 days when he was younger which left holes in his brain. It also affected his memory of early years. So there’s all that – his new album is good –
I actually enjoy watching his interviews. I’m not saying he boyfriend/husband material, but there’s something very vulnerable about him that points to something redeeming. Watch his interview with Drew Barrymore. It changed my opinion of him.