Diplo rang in 2025 in an altered state. The DJ and music producer shocked and delighted Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN’s New 12 months’s Eve particular by revealing that he was tripping whereas he appeared just about on the cable information community.
“I’m so curious, what’s probably the most standard place that you just’ve performed LSD?” Cohen requested the music star.
Diplo responded: “Proper now.” Earlier than including: “I did some on the helicopter, on the way in which right here…I’m not even mendacity.”
The co-hosts burst out laughing as Diplo clarified that he was displaying some restraint. “It’s like a lightweight journey,” he famous. It should have been a microdose, as a result of Diplo was in a position to carry out at three exhibits in Los Angeles on New 12 months’s Eve. He additionally beforehand admitted to dosing whereas working within the L.A. marathon as a part of an uncommon coaching routine. “I did what any regular particular person would do and took LSD,” he wrote on Instagram.
Cooper sounded impressed with Diplo’s method to work and play. ““I want I used to be Diplo,” the CNN anchor admitted. “I bought to say. I simply assume he has a enjoyable, cool way of life. Are you able to think about his way of life?”
“How does he work?” Cooper added. “How does anyone do something? I’ve had 4 pictures. I simply need to fall asleep.”
A rep for Diplo didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for remark.
Diplo’s drug-enhanced look wasn’t the one spotlight of Cooper and Cohen’s countdown to 2025. The pair additionally welcomed Oscar-nominated thespian Ralph Fiennes, who regaled them together with his interpretation of the viral TikTok monologue on the best way to be “demure” by social media influencer Jools Lebron. Fiennes didn’t point out something about tripping.