
Intervention Was A Matter Of Life Or Death For John Mulaney, Says Friend Nick Kroll
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"It was so scary and brutal to go through,” confessed Kroll, who first met his longtime comic collaborator when they were both students at Georgetown.
Nick Kroll revealed he helped arrange friend and collaborator John Mulaney’s intervention out of fear that Mulaney’s drug addiction could kill him.
During Monday’s episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast with Dax Shepard, Kroll talked about the stakes as he tried bringing Mulaney’s loved ones together to make him face the facts about his substance abuse.
“It was so scary and brutal to go through,” confessed Kroll, who first met Mulaney when they were students at Georgetown before becoming a frequent collaborator.
“He was in New York. I was in LA. It was at the height of the pandemic. So it was incredibly stressful to be in the midst of that, trying to literally coordinate and produce an intervention, bringing a bunch of people together — friends from college, other close friends.”
Not only was the intervention staged in the thick of COVID-19, but Kroll’s wife was on the brink of having their first child while he was shooting the controversy-plagued psychological thriller “Don’t Worry Darling.”













