Social media is poison, says Pete Davidson

The 32-year-old comedian has described social media platforms as a "trap" and Pete admits that he does his best to distance himself from online toxicity.

The Hollywood star told Interview magazine: "I’ve been saying this forever about social media. It’s f****** poison.

"I’ve never gone on social media and felt good after. I’ve never gone to look something up or check on someone or whatever and been like, 'Oh, so glad I did that.' It’s a trap and you get caught.

"You go on initially to look at one thing, and then there’s another over here, another over there, and before you know it, you’re watching people get evicted from their homes. Anything to rile you up and get you p****** off."

Pete believes young people are dangerously reliant on their phones, observing that it's not "healthy or sustainable".

The actor - who has Scottie, ten months, with his ex-girlfriend, Elsie Hewitt - said: "All this access we have through the phone is not f****** healthy or sustainable. It gets everybody anxious.

"I miss cordless phones and answering machines, and I hope you’re right, that there is some sort of reset. I heard the youngest generation are using flip phones, so hopefully that plays over."

Meanwhile, Pete previously revealed that he's found the focus on his personal life to be "traumatic".

The comedian has dated a host of famous women, including Elsie, Kim Kardashian, Ariana Grande, Kaia Gerber, Margaret Qualley, and Phoebe Dynevor, but Pete felt frustrated that people often knew him for his high-profile love life, rather than his comedy talent.

He said on The Breakfast Club: "It just got to a point where I was ... I got really tired of my whole career just being like my personal life. And living through that is it's sort of traumatic. Like not to be like lame, but like it's traumatic to live in your own crap all the time."

The comedy star explained: "I don’t want to victimise myself in any way because I’m cool, but the sexualisation of me — if that was a girl, people would be like, there would be a march for it ... Seriously. You're just talking about my d*** all day."