Timbaland opens up about OxyContin addiction – ‘I was killing myself slowly’

Timbaland is looking back at one of the darkest periods of his life, saying his addiction to OxyContin left him unknowingly risking death each day.

During a recent interview with B High ATL⁠, the Grammy-winning producer reflected on his past drug use and the toll it took on his health while discussing divorce, personal struggles and his late friend Chris Cornell.

"I was going through drug addiction… divorce. I was going through a lot," Timbaland said. "I ain't never think about suicide, but then I said, you know what? I was committing suicide every day."

The producer, whose real name is Timothy Mosley, said he did not view his actions that way at the time but now recognizes how severely the pills endangered his life. He recalled his then-wife witnessing him stop breathing while he slept and credited his faith with helping him survive.

"When you go there and go to them pills, you killing yourself. I was killing myself slowly or fastly, I don't know. But God had his hands on me," he said.

In a 2017 Rolling Stone interview⁠, Timbaland said he began using pain medication in his 30s to manage nerve problems stemming from a gunshot wound…

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