Pete Davidson found solace in Eddie Murphy’s comedy in the days after his father died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Davidson, 31, appeared in the Being Eddie documentary, revealing his introduction to Murphy, 64, came from watching his 1983 special, Delirious.

“Immediately, [I heard], ‘F*** this, suck this, f*** you,’ and my mom’s like, ‘Whoa, what did you get?’ I was dying laughing,” Davidson recalled of his mother Amy’s reaction to the expletive special. “She was like, ‘You can’t watch this!’ And I was like, ‘Please, I’m laughing.’”

He continued, “I think she saw I was enjoying myself at a time where I really wasn’t and she was like, ‘You can watch this stuff as long as you don’t repeat it or tell anybody, and it was kind of a little pact we made.’”

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