Machine Gun Kelly says his daughter helped him get sober after learning he was high

Sometimes a parent's love for their child forces that parent to give up destructive behaviors. Machine Gun Kelly can surely relate to that, because he said that his daughter Casie helped him give up drugs and alcohol.

"It started with my daughter saying, 'Dad, you know I can tell when you're high?' It broke my heart," Kelly explained on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast. "It was the ultimate letdown."

Kelly's fans are probably familiar with the close relationship the rapper has with Casie, who he shares with his ex Emma Cannon. Casie often travels with him, she's joined him on stage, and even gives her dad music advice, which Kelly once talked about with Kelly Clarkson.

As of this writing, Casie is 15 years old, but she had that talk about her dad's substance abuse when she was 11 or 12. But the Tickets to My Downfall creator didn't change his behavior until some time after.

Plus, Kelly talked about growing up in an unhappy household and said he was often pressured by his father to be someone he wasn't. He talked about breaking unhealthy family patterns as well.

"It took me a while afterward because obviously drugs have a vice grip on you," Kelly told the podcast hosts. “Also, bro, I grew up in a house where being somebody else was beaten into me. So, it gets to the point when you're in fifth grade, sixth grade, you start to become ashamed of who you are because you aren't who your father wants you to be."

"And really, that's just a reflection of him not being who he wanted to be," he added. "That was step one for me. As a father and as a man, to be the father I wish my dad would have been, I have to break this generational curse for my kid."

In the beginning of August, Kelly sat down on Bunnie Xo's podcast Dumb Blonde and revealed that he gave up drinking after completing his first stint of rehab. According to the 34-year-old, his drugs of choice were Percocet, Vyvanse, Hydrocodone, weed and alcohol.

"I don't drink anymore. I haven't drank since last August," Kelly told Bunnie Xo, wife of country singer Jelly Roll. "That was my first time I ever went to rehab."

Undoubtedly, Kelly should be applauded for changing his life around, wouldn't you say?