"He just pulled up to my crib and took me to breakfast.” “He lived literally like two buildings down from me. “And then, on my 30th birthday, he surprised me," he recounts.
Tesfaye recounted meeting the Ace Ventura/Dumb & Dumber/ Sonic The Hedgehog actor and texting him around the time of his 30th birthday celebrations last year. But I knew I didn’t want it.”Įlsewhere in the interview, The Weeknd spoke about his unlikely friendship with Jim Carrey, which was sparked by a shared love of telescopes. Because for a lot of people, it’s hard to shake it. And I’ve spent the last few years realising that and thanking God that I don’t need it. And not doing the work to figure out how not to need it. He labels himself “sober lite”, admitting he still smokes weed and drinks “occasionally”, but adds that hard drugs “were a crutch.” “It was me thinking that I needed it. That’s a big deal for a guy who has ( as we’ve previously put it) “made a business outof making sleazy numbness soundsexy, quite literally on hismega-hit ‘Can’t Feel My Face’.” It’s a particularly compelling description given that in the same cover story, Tesfaye says he’s ditched doing hard drugs.
The publication describes the record as “Quincy Jones meets Giorgio Moroder meets the best-night-of-your-f**king-life party records.” The Canadian star, real name Abel Tesfaye, says the follow-up to After Hours is “the album always wanted to make” in an extensive interview for GQ.