Pete Davidson spoke for the first time since his reckless driving case was dismissed during his stand-up comedy show on July 20 in Atlantic City.
Pete wore a baseball cap, a blue Ocean Casino Resort hoodie and baggy black cargo pants. According to an eyewitness who spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com, Pete told the crowd at Ovation Hall that he had gotten a phone call about his charges being dropped and replied, “Hooray? I think so.”
“I did something bad. It’s not really something to celebrate,” the 30-year-old said.
The comedian then went on to elaborate on the 50 hours of community service he had “just completed.”
Although the car accident occurred in Los Angeles, he was able to complete his community service in New York City at Lenox Hill Neurosurgery, where his sister, Casey Davidson, is a physician’s assistant and helped him get a clinic.
Pete Davidson has broken his silence after reckless driving case was dismissed as he describes a near-death experience (pictured above in his Netflix special)
The former Saturday Night Live host described in detail the “pretty wild” but also “really cool” experience of participating in a program in which he shadowed a surgeon performing experimental brain tumor surgeries.
Without naming the surgeon, Pete said all of the doctor’s patients are terminally ill and that he had the authority to try new methods for cancer.
“I just find it funny — not what he does — just that I’m there. I find it funny that I get to observe this big, prestigious man, because to do something like that you usually have to work really hard or be a doctor yourself.
“The other four people who followed him were four doctors who were on this program and they all pretended to have won the lottery,” Pete explains.
He went on to say that one of the four followers was a man from Germany who had studied for 12 years.
Meanwhile, Pete ‘drove into a garage’ and ended up on the program.
“I was very humbled by those patients. It was very humbling to be with them,” he continued. “I always feel pathetic and shitty, and I was very grateful for my life. I couldn’t imagine being one of those patients.”
In addition to the 50 hours of community service, to have his misdemeanor charge dropped, Pete was required to take a “safe driving course” and visit both a hospital and a morgue to learn the fatal consequences of risky choices.
Pete called the California judge’s orders on the three tasks “f**ked up.”
“I thought, can’t I just go to jail for a day? It seems like six weeks of work.”
Scene of the accident where Pete crashed his car into a house in LA in March of last year 2023
The Bupkis star told the crowd at the Ocean Casino Resort that he was “pissed off” about having to take an “eight-hour class on cadavers,” go to the morgue to “look at a dead body that had died in a reckless driving accident” and then write an essay about what he had learned.
After the misdemeanor charges were dropped on July 18, Pete said he’s “had a good year” following the “scary” March 2023 car crash in which he crashed his Mercedes into someone’s Beverly Hills home while driving “100 miles an hour.”
His girlfriend at the time, Chase Sui Wonders, was also in the car.
Pete opened his show last weekend, part of his comedy tour, Pete Davidson: Prehab, in which he analyzes the car crash.
He explained that he didn’t see the stop sign until the last moment and then hit a fire hydrant to avoid hitting anyone, which was safer than accidentally ‘killing’ someone, with his bad luck.
“I saw the house and I thought, I don’t think you’re going to die if you hit a house. Usually in sitcoms they just go through it,” he recalled. “So I swerved and aimed for the house and I hit the garage pretty good. Even at my worst, I’m pretty f**king on the spot.”
“I was so scared,” Pete confessed after thinking about how the conversation with the police officer would go and thinking he was actually “going to jail.”
“The officer came, he was all pissed off because I hit a building. I was freaking out and I had to calm myself down,” he said. But then he realized, “nobody’s dead” and he “wasn’t drunk.”
The house he crashed into reportedly had to be completely demolished due to the impact of the crash. Pete warned homeowners to “keep their lights on at 3am.”
Pete has admitted he still smokes weed after quitting cocaine and ketamine – and posed outside a weed dispensary this past weekend (pictured above)
Upon hearing that the SNL star’s terms of diversion had been successfully completed, Los Angeles County “absent-hand” Judge Alexander CD Giza dismissed the case (see last year)
Police said at the time that drugs and alcohol did not play a role in the accident.
Pete, who spent time in rehab last summer after battling borderline personality disorder and PTSD, says he now only smokes weed.
“I can’t stop yet. It’s all I got. I done coke and ketamine and all the pills and all that shit. All I got left is weed, so it’s almost over, but I’m gonna hold on a little longer,” he told the crowd Saturday night.
While the actor has been candid about certain aspects of his personal life, such as the fact that he goes to a dermatologist to have some of his tattoos removed (like Family Guy’s Stewie Griffin doing a hit of cocaine), he hasn’t spoken a word about his famous exes.
Earlier this month, it was announced that Pete and Madelyn Cline, 26, had split after nearly a year of dating.
A source told DailyMail.com exclusively that he is now ‘surrounding himself with friends’ and even drove from New York to Atlantic City with his mates.
“Pete is miserable a lot of the time,” the source said. “The only time he’s not miserable is when he’s working and on stage.”
After his stop in New Jersey, a source said Pete “rushed back to New York to watch the Jake Paul fight with friends.”