Elon Musk on Saturday denied a report in The New York Times (NYT) that the billionaire tycoon used ketamine, ecstasy, magic mushrooms, and other drugs extensively last year during Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.
The American newspaper reported on Friday that the billionaire adviser to President Trump used so much of the powerful anesthetic ketamine that he developed bladder problems.
The newspaper added that the world’s richest person used ecstasy and magic mushrooms and traveled with a box of pills last year, adding that it is unknown whether Musk used drugs while running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Trump took office in January.
What did Elon Musk say about his alleged drug use?
“To be clear, I am NOT doing drugs! The New York Times was blatantly lying,” Musk said Saturday on his social media platform X.
“I tried ‘prescription’ ketamine a few years ago and said so on X, so this isn’t even news. It helps to get out of dark mental holes, but I haven’t taken it since,” he added.
Musk first dodged a question about his drug use in a rare appearance Friday with Trump in the Oval Office, where the Tesla and SpaceX boss was seen with a black eye during his formal farewell as the head of Trump’s severe DOGE spending cuts that laid off tens of thousands of public employees.
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