Diplo Was on LSD During Live CNN New Year’s Eve Special

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper’s latest CNN New Year’s Eve broadcast came with many memorable moments, but Diplo’s surprise revelation takes the cake.

“I’m so curious, what’s the most conventional place that you’ve done LSD?” Cohen, 56, asked the DJ, 46, in a clip from the Tuesday, December 31, broadcast shared via social media. Diplo, who was video chatting live from Los Angeles, giggled before admitting: “Right now. I did some on the helicopter on the way here. … I’m not even lying.”

His nonchalant response caused Cohen and Cooper, 57, to erupt into shocked laughter. Cooper, for his part, was laughing so hard he couldn’t even speak. “Oh, my God! Hold on, hold on, hold on,” Cohen quipped. “Please tell me — you’re tripping right now?”

Diplo simply replied, “Yeah.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, he went on to explain that he was on a “light trip” after “microdosing” but possibly “macrodosed” earlier that day.

After gathering his composure, Cooper went on to joke: “I wish I was Diplo. I gotta say, I just think he has a fun, cool lifestyle. Can you imagine his lifestyle? ‘I’m Diplo. I do things.’”

Cohen then asked whether Cooper would follow the musician on Instagram after the broadcast. “I’m absolutely going to start. I mean … I feel bad about my own boring life compared to Diplo’s,” Cooper replied. “He’s got helicopters and he’s like doing things. He did, like, four shots while we were talking. … And he’s going to play. How does he work? How does anybody do anything? I’ve had four shots. I just want to go to sleep.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Diplo shared an Instagram Story clip of himself flying over L.A. in a helicopter. He later performed a handful of shows at the Avalon Hollywood nightclub in California.

Back in March 2023, Diplo revealed that he ran the L.A. Marathon while on LSD, having added drops of the substance into a water bottle the night before the big race. He finished with a time of three hours and 35 minutes.

“I do a lot of LSD, but I’m not tripping and looking at the stars going ‘Whaaa?’ I microdose it, maybe a little more,” he told Esquire in May 2023. “I was nervous before the race because 14 miles was the most I had ever ran. But woke up kind of late, put it in my water and drank it on the way to Dodger Stadium. It was maybe half of a tab of acid.”

He attributed his performance to using LSD but noted he “wouldn’t recommend anyone else do it.” He explained: “I wanted to experiment. It made the time go by fast, and the worst thing about running is how boring it is. It’s boring as hell.”

Diplo also told the outlet that he used LSD to “ween” himself off alcohol. “I also don’t like to smoke weed. But I do eat less food than I used to,” he said of his diet. “I still eat bread and meat, dairy. Those are things that don’t affect my body too much. I stay away from sugar. I try to do the basic things, but I do work out an hour or two hours a day, five days a week, if I can. I feel normal when I sweat.”