‘SNL’ cast member reveals disorder

NEW YORK — “Saturday Night Live’s” “Resident Young Person” Pete Davidson revealed he’s been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

The 23-year-old comedian explained his long-awaited diagnosis came after a stint in rehab and several instances of unexplained breakdowns that he initially attributed to his marijuana habit. “I’ve been a pothead forever and I started in October, or September of last year, having these mental breakdowns where I would freak out like, rage, and not remember what happened after. Blind rage,” he told Marc Maron on the star’s podcast, “WTF with Marc Maron.”

Davidson decided to enter rehab to kick his drug habit, which he has previously said eased the symptoms of his Crohn’s disease. Once in rehab, the doctors began to suspect that it was more than just the drugs causing his breakdowns, and prescribed him medicine to help treat what they thought could be bipolar disorder.

“I got out and then I started smoking weed again, and I’m on meds,” he said. “So I was feeling a little better, so two months go by and I just snapped. I was smoking weed every day, I just snapped and had a really bad mental breakdown. So I freaked out and I was like, it has to be the weed.”

Davidson cut out the pot and announced his sobriety. But after staying sober for nearly four months, he saw no change in his troubling behavior.

Allen J. Schaben / TNS From left, Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, Mikey Day and Beck Bennett, from “Saturday Night Live,” arrive at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 17. Davidson revealed he has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.