{"id":226757,"date":"2025-05-05T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/?p=226757"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T07:22:00","slug":"inside-weezdoms-rehab-journey-and-the-silent-addiction-crisis-among-kenyan-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/inside-weezdoms-rehab-journey-and-the-silent-addiction-crisis-among-kenyan-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Weezdom\u2019s Rehab Journey and the Silent Addiction Crisis Among Kenyan Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weezdom has announced that he is stepping away from music for good, following a personal transformation after months battling alcohol addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Nation<\/em>\u2019s <em>Showbuzz<\/em>, the artist revealed that he has closed the chapter on his music career and is now shifting his focus to artist management.<br \/>\n&#8220;I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be releasing any more music after all these years,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m moving into artist management\u2014I\u2019ve done it before for Bahati and many others. That\u2019s where my energy is going now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weezdom, who has previously opened up about his struggles with depression and addiction, reflected on his journey to sobriety, stressing that recovery is a deeply personal decision.<br \/>\n\u201cNo one can pull you out of addiction\u2014it has to come from within,\u201d he said. \u201cRehab alone doesn\u2019t fix it. You need the mental strength to make that decision yourself. I made the hard choice to quit alcohol. It wasn\u2019t easy, but I realized that if I couldn\u2019t save myself, no one else could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also shed light on what he describes as a widespread but silent addiction crisis among Kenyan celebrities.<br \/>\n\u201cI know some who are deep into cocaine\u2014it\u2019s a ticking time bomb. Some of the people setting trends online today might not be okay two or three years from now if they don\u2019t get help,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Weezdom also cited gambling as another growing problem in celebrity circles.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a gospel artist I know who sold his TV and even his car just to gamble. He\u2019s lost millions. Addiction\u2014whether to drugs, alcohol, or betting\u2014is becoming a serious issue among Kenyan celebrities right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weezdom has announced that he is stepping away from music for good, following a personal transformation after months battling alcohol addiction. Speaking to Nation\u2019s Showbuzz, the artist revealed that he has closed the chapter on his music career and is now shifting his focus to artist management. &#8220;I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be releasing any more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6069,"featured_media":174755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[937],"class_list":["post-226757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-weezdom-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226758,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226757\/revisions\/226758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}