Megan Fox may be a movie star, but she’s really just an average Jane just like you. Sure, she color-coordinates her outfits with her equally famous rapper/rocker/actor boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly and takes vacations into the jungle for intense hallucinogenic rituals with him when they’re not sitting ringside in Las Vegas near twice-impeached former president Trump at UFC fights.
But other than that. Just like you.
Okay maybe not exactly. But on Monday night (July 12), Fox did that thing where she made it all seem totally normal. “So we went to Costa Rica to do ayahuasca in, like, a proper setting, with indigenous people,” Fox told surprised-looking Jimmy Kimmel Live! fill-in host Arsenio Hall about the lighthearted get-away she recently took with MGK where they drank the psychoactive tea used in spiritual or religious ceremonies that can cause intense hallucination, as well as violent purging. Fox said the couple went to a retreat known for providing spiritual experiences for celebrities interested in the ancient Amazonian ritual.
“So I was thinking it was like glamping, like it was gonna be some kind of five-star experience,” she laughed. “But you get there and you really are in the middle of the jungle, and you don’t get to eat after like one p.m. You have to walk a very far distance to get your water, and you can’t shower because they’re in a drought. There was nothing glamorous about it, and it’s all a part of making you vulnerable, so you sort of surrender to the experience.”
For the couple known for living on the edge, though, it was no big deal to join 20 other strangers in emptying their stomachs into buckets during the “vomitivo” part of the experience. “You all line up at the edge of the rainforest, over this weird fence, and you go three by three and you drink lemongrass tea until you, not by your own volition, just vomit everything out of your body,” Fox explained. “And you have to vomit a certain amount until they let you get back with everyone else, so you’re like cheering on everyone as they throw up.”
And while the pair were a bit uneasy about puking in front of strangers at the outset, she said it was such a powerful “bonding experience” that it got them ready for that night’s ceremony by stripping away any sense of vanity. That set them up for a three-night experience that she described as “incredibly intense… Everybody’s journey is different, but on the second night I went to Hell for eternity. Just knowing it’s eternity is torture in itself, because there’s no beginning, middle or end. So you have a real ego death.”
In the end, Fox said the ayahuasca trip was helpful in a way that goes beyond talk therapy or hypnotherapy because it goes “straight into your soul and it takes you to the psychological prison that you hold yourself in. So it’s your own version of hell and I was definitely there.”
The actress also talked about why she and MGK always seem to coordinate their outfits. “That’s something I started with him because he’s such a flamboyant dresser that I can’t really just off just the sweatpants and yoga gear, I really have to elevate myself to his level,” she told Hall of MGK’s tendency to be covered in “grommets, zippers, sequins, everything’s pink, everything’s glowing.”
Fox also talked about flying to Las Vegas last weekend to watch the disastrous Conor McGregor fight with Dustin Poirier and her UFC fan girldom. “I was in a row with [Justin] Bieber and Trump was also in my row,” she said of the pop star and former reality TV host-turned-one-term-president, who was surrounded by Secret Service agents. “I don’t know how I feel about it because if someone is a target then I’m like I could be harmed because I’m adjacent to where he is,” she said. “So I was worried about my own safety.”
She also talked up her new thriller, Till Death, which she shot in Bulgaria. Fox mentioned that it was early in their relationship and MGK wanted to come visit, but had lost his passport after tucking it into his sock while taking a motorcycle ride on the freeway. “That’s a stupid thing, don’t ever do that,” she said, describing again how Sen. Bernie Sanders helped him make the love connection.
Watch Fox on Kimmel below.
