Gillum’s candid video on rehab

Andrew Gillum, the oncerising Democratic star who narrowly lost the 2018 Florida governor’s race, has opened up for the first time since exiting public life and entering rehab.

Speaking in an 11-minute Instagram post Monday, the 40-year-old politician (pictured) got candid about his struggles battling alcoholism and depression, which he says worsened significantly following his loss to nowGov. Ron DeSantis.

“I went away to rehab to focus on my issues with alcoholism, having grown up in a household where my father battled addiction to alcohol, and later died from that addiction,” the former Tallahassee mayor said. “I knew well the toll it took on my father’s dreams and ambitions.”

In March, Gillum was found inebriated inside a Miami Beach hotel room with another man who allegedly overdosed on crystal meth.

The onetime political star was found vomiting in the bathroom of the Mondrian South Beach while the other man was treated for a possible drug overdose. Officers found three baggies of crystal meth on the bed and hotel room floor at the time.

Within days, the former gubernatorial hopeful announced he would be withdrawing from politics to enter rehab.

After the March hotel incident, Gillum said, the public shame weighed heavily on him, describing it as something that “cuts you.”

“My stuff had to be public and cause great embarrassment and rumors, some false, some true, the shame that I felt from all of that . . . was tearing me up. I needed real help to try to unpack that,” he said in his Instagram video.