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May 27, 2025 – Nick Kroll appeared on the latest episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast with Dax Shepard and got candid about orchestrating a drug intervention in 2020 for his friend and frequent collaborator John Mulaney. The intervention took place during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.“It was so scary and brutal to go through,” he recalled.

“He was in New York. I was in L.A. 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.” Compounding the stress was Kroll’s personal life. His wife was nearing the birth of their child, and he was in production on Olivia Wilde’s film “Don’t Worry Darling,” a project already plagued by tabloid drama. “There was no stress there,” he joked before admitting, “John was running around New York City like a true madman. And I was so deeply scared that he was gonna die.” 

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