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Drake: 'I got high before my first audition'

Canadian rapper Drake, who rose to fame after starring on the hit drama series 'Degrassi', has revealed that he smoked marijuana before auditioning for the part to calm his nerves. 

He made the entertaining confession during a recent interview with Jimmy Fallon and confessed that he was anxious about the audition so smoked a joint before heading into the meeting:

"It was like a real pivotal day in my life because it was the first audition I went on, so that’s already a monumental thing... I had this really tug of war moment where I actually did something that I probably shouldn’t have done that starts with a ‘W’ and ends with ‘eed’."

The hitmaker played the character of basketball star Jimmy Brooks for 8 years and added that while he felt more at ease for having smoked pot, the paranoia then troubled him:

"It was crazy because I started really getting paranoid, I thought I’d just completely ruined my life, I started splashing water on my face constantly, it was like a Clearasil commercial! I showed up to the audition and got just a little less paranoid, went in and did what I could, was just devastated, I couldn’t tell my mum.

 

Watch Drake's music video for 'Hold On, We're Going Home' below: