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June 10, 2026 – The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star, 25, appeared on the June 9 episode of the More Life with Carl Radke podcast and opened up about his struggle with addiction and how he stays on top of his health. Bassett started drinking alcohol at age 14 after giving in to his “strong desire to fit in.” That ultimately progressed to drug abuse and he later developed a ketamine addiction. It became so severe that it led to a near-death experience in 2021.
“I was like 23 when things got really out of hand. It should have killed me, the level of [substance use],” he said on the show. “It really was like a daily nightmare, and it just progressed and progressed and progressed and got to a point of almost killing me.”
“I was constantly in a state of extreme fight, flight, freeze, distress,” he added. “Every day was just an attempt to disappear. I didn’t wanna kill myself. I just didn’t want to be alive. So I did everything I could to be completely numb, and the second I wasn’t numb, I did anything I could to get numb again.”
