Charlie Puth has stopped drinking alcohol
The See You Again hitmaker has recalled how he made a decision to ditch the booze after a wild night of partying in New York before the release of his 2022 album Charlie.
27 January 2026
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Charlie said: "I was in New York, I was staying at the Greenwich, and I don't drink at all. I think it clouds my judgement.
"But it was right before the third album was about to come out, and I was like, 'I'm just gonna have a rager.' And I woke up with the worst hangover I've ever felt in my life. It lasted for, I think, two days.
"And I saw pictures of myself with people I didn't even know. And I remember they all wanted to get coffee the next morning, in a scene-y part of town. I saw them all eating, and then I just turned the other way and walked back to the hotel and just stayed there by myself for a couple days."
He added: "It's hard to describe, but after years of surrounding myself with the wrong things and saying the wrong things, it's profound when it all just comes to a screeching halt one day at 30 years old in New York City."
Charlie will release his new album Whatever's Clever! in March and explained that the track I Used to Be Cringe comes from his early years in the music business where he regrets his "inauthenticity".
The 34-year-old singer, whose wife Brooke Sansone is pregnant with the couple's first child, recalled: "I would talk differently in 2016. I would go to a radio show and tell myself, 'You're gonna put on a cool-guy accent because you have a big song out right now.' It was just so much inauthenticity... I thought I had to be a certain way to be popular.
"And again, it's part of, I think, a young man growing up and not knowing himself and being very influenced by those around him."
The We Don't Talk Anymore singer continued: "Comments that the higher-ups at the record label or former management would make were sometimes right. So if they were right about that, they must be right about making up a b******* story, because it'll make the song more exciting.
"None of that was who I am. I can't even look at myself half the time from the years 2015 to 2022. I just didn't know what I was doing. I used to be very cringe."
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