Davidson first spoke about battling BPD in 2017 on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, in which he said he had undergone rehab the previous year and that one of his psychiatrists had diagnosed him with the ailment—which the National Institute of Mental Health describes as a “mental illness that severely impacts a person’s ability to manage their emotions.”
“I started having these mental breakdowns where I would, like, freak out and then not remember what happened after,” the actor said. “Blind rage.”
Davidson also attributed part of his ongoing struggle with mental health to his firefighter father, Scott, getting killed in the line of duty during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The actor, who was 7 years old at the time, said, “My big thing is trust. One day he was here and the next day he was gone.”
