'I very much tried to tell everyone,' Mulaney said, reflecting on the controversy surrounding his rehab and divorce.
was a close personal friend who’d completely betrayed them. That particular group took the standup comedian’s time in rehab for drug addiction and subsequent divorce from ex-wife personally in a way that only a fan who’d wholly bought into a constructed persona could.; he’s happily married with two kids now, after all. Still, he insists that the parasocial fans’ perceived image—the one of the clean-cutwho could never hurt a fly —never really existed in the first place.
In retrospect, one thing that might have helped would have been using a stage name, which Mulaney says he started to regret not doing a few years into his career. “I don’t like when they say the same name that I had when I was 10. I don’t always like reading that name out there,” he explained. “I wonder if it’s nice, when you see ‘so-and-so sucks,’ you go, ‘That’s not me, actually.’ I always wondered if that helped performers be like, ‘I’m not Dean Martin.
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