Reports: Mac Miller dead from a suspected overdose at 26

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Ariana Grande felt objectified after an encounter with one of Mac Miller’s fans. She took to Twitter to explain her feelings on the matter. Keri Lumm (@thekerilumm) reports.
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Mac Miller has died of an apparent overdose, according to reports from TMZ and Variety. He was 26.

The rapper and former boyfriend of Ariana Grande had reportedly struggled with substance abuse.

Miller released his album Swimming” in August, and musicians and fans were stunned by the news of his death

Grande spoke about their “toxic” two-year relationship, which ended in May, in a response to a Twitter user who criticized her for breaking up with him.

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“Mac Miller totaling his G wagon and getting a DUI after Ariana Grande dumped him for another dude after he poured his heart out on a ten song album to her called the divine feminine is just the most heartbreaking thing happening in Hollywood,” the user said.

 “I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety & prayed for his balance for years (and always will of course) but shaming / blaming women for a man’s inability to keep his (expletive) together is a very major problem. let’s please stop doing that,” she wrote.

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Miller talked about the image that people had of him as a “depressed drug user” in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 in July.

“I have people that care about me and fans that love my music, and it’s a beautiful relationship with them — people who have been with me through being a 19-year-old wide-eyed kid to being a self-destructive depressed drug user to making love music to all these different stages,” Miller said. “Then they see something like that and they worry.” 

Miller, born Malcolm James McCormick, rose to fame with his mixtape “Best Day Ever” in 2011, landing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the single “Donald Trump.”

He rapped about his struggles with addiction on his 2014 mixtape “Faces,” speaking about that time in his life to Vulture in an interview published Thursday. “I used to rap super openly about really dark (expletive), because that’s what I was experiencing at the time,”  he said. “That’s fine, that’s good, that’s life. It should be all the emotions.”

He also spoke about his drug use in a 2013 interview with Complex, opening up about his addiction to promethezine and codeine, known as “lean.” “I love lean; it’s great,” he said. “I was not happy and I was on lean very heavy. I was so (messed) up all the time it was bad. My friends couldn’t even look at me the same. I was lost.”

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