Rolling Stone Probes Reggie Watts After 5 Women Allege Drug Pressure and Abuse
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Updated · juliaraeside.substack.com · Aug 21
Rolling Stone Probes Reggie Watts After 5 Women Allege Drug Pressure and Abuse
3 articles · Updated · juliaraeside.substack.com · Aug 21
Summary
Five former partners told Rolling Stone that Reggie Watts pushed drug use—especially ketamine—and followed a repeated pattern of idealizing, criticizing and then discarding them.
Katherine McCollough’s family said her use escalated from occasional drugs to ketamine addiction during the relationship, which ended after a manic episode and psychiatric hospitalization following a psychedelic taken with Watts.
McCollough, 36, died by suicide in Peru on March 28, months after the breakup and shortly after her father’s death, making her case the investigation’s most serious allegation.
Watts, 54, has denied responsibility through lawyer Andrew Brettler, who called claims linking him to McCollough’s death “dangerously false” and pointed to her own drug use.