Sure to get a lot of play: His critically acclaimed disc “about the darkest time of my entire life, around 2013, 2014,” as he put it to Variety. “I was getting really, really tossed up and going through a lot of personal stuff. I got arrested in Vegas.”
Revisiting his “real rock-star era” wasn’t the easiest, he continued, “I didn’t want to…but sometimes you try to run away from who you are, and you always get back to that place. By the end of this album, you realize, ‘I’m not that person.’ I was, but I’m growing and wiser, and I’m gonna have children someday, and I’m going to tell them they don’t have to be that person.”
How’s that for private? While The Weeknd’s interviews are rare, his candor is plentiful as he speaks on the loneliness of his Toronto childhood, the drug-induced haze of his teens and his recipe for success. And in honor of his big performance, we’ve dug up 30 tidbits about the motherf–kin’ starboy himself. You know you love it. You love it.
