Frankie Jonas is ‘grateful to be alive’ after struggling with drugs, alcohol overdose

Musician Frankie Jonas, 20, opened up about how he struggled with addiction and suicidal thoughts prior to getting sober a year and a half ago.

“This is by no means the eloquent explanation I hope to give on a much more serious mode than this. However from a very young age I struggled with drinking and drugging as an escape because I hated life, and I didn’t want to be here,” Jonas said in the TikTok video, which was posted in response to a fan who asked him about his experience with addiction.

“I eventually, after many years of trying to kill myself accidentally, came to a point where I was going to do it for real

“Something intervened, and my life was saved. I went to treatment, and it saved me. I couldn’t be more grateful for the fact that I’m alive today because my world has changed so beautifully and so astronomically, and I am not that person anymore. I couldn’t be more grateful that I’m alive and happy,” he added.

Frankie is the brother of Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas and is currently a student at Columbia University in New York City