Lil Nas X Jokes About Fans Being 'OD Nice' After Rehab, Celebrates 10,000th Day Alive

Lil Nas X says fans have been remarkably kind to him since he left a recent rehab stint, and he finds it funny.

In an Instagram Reel, the 26-year-old rapper told followers that people have treated him differently since the news broke. "Ever since I got out of rehab, like, everybody's, like, OD nice to me," he said, laughing. He added that fans now call him brave and write "Keep fighting, King" whenever he posts. Billboard reported his comments on 25 August 2026, and Complex picked up the story under the headline "Lil Nas X Jokes Fans Have Been 'OD Nice' to Him Since Getting Out of Rehab."

He also posted an Instagram Story holding a cake to mark a personal milestone: his 10,000th day alive. "So, tomorrow is my 10,000th day alive and I made it," he said, according to Billboard.

The rehab stay became public knowledge in June 2026, when Lil Nas X posted a Reel saying he had spent several months in treatment and now had both a therapist and a psychiatrist. He said he had initially been in denial about a bipolar disorder diagnosis because he did not want to take medication or have people think differently of him, Billboard reported. He told fans he was "doing much better" after receiving care for the condition, as Good Morning America noted on 17 June 2026.

The health updates followed a serious legal matter. Lil Nas X was charged with four felonies after allegedly attacking police while walking naked on the streets of Los Angeles. According to Variety, those charges would be dismissed if he continued mental health treatment. The charges were formally dismissed in April 2026 on the condition that he complete a two-year mental health programme, as Them reported.

For fans, the Reels and the cake mark a lighter chapter after a difficult stretch. The artist born Montero Hill has been open about the sequence — diagnosis, denial, arrest, treatment, dismissal — in his own words and on his own timeline. The tone of the latest posts is comedic, but the timeline behind them is not.

Lil Nas X broke through in 2019 with "Old Town Road," which spent a record-breaking 19 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. No new music has been announced alongside the recent posts.