Adam Scott Had to Convince HisSeveranceCostars He Wasn't Using Cocaine After an Uncontrollable Nosebleed on Set

Mar. 15, 2025

Adam Scottcan assure you he’s not on drugs.

“A little while later, I got this nosebleed that would not stop,” Scott, 51, recalled on a Jan. 22 episode ofLate Night with Seth Meyers. “Like, no matter what we did, we could not get my nose to stop bleeding. It was disgusting and frustrating, but also, when there’s an actor who has a nose that will not stop bleeding, obviously, it’s cocaine, right? We all know this.”

Adam Scott on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’.NBC

NBC

To let his cast members know he was drug-free, he admitted he was “sort of overcompensating and making way too many cocaine jokes, trying to reassure everyone that it wasn’t cocaine.”

The nose bleed never resolved itself and theParks & Recalum eventually had to visit an emergency room in upstate New York where he had to get the “inside of my nose cauterized.” HostSeth Meyersthen showed the audience a picture directorBen Stillertook of Scott getting the procedure done.

Seth Meyers shows a photo of Adam Scott receiving a medical procedure.NBC

“I asked the doctor, I was like, ‘Is this — Is this going to hurt?’ And he’s like, ‘Well yes, but also the more challenging aspect of this will be the extreme feeling of pepper being shoved up your nose,” he explained. “So it did hurt, but then also it did feel like there was just like a pound of pepper. And he’s like, ‘Don’t sneeze. You can’t sneeze!'”

The latest installment picks up with Mark Scout (Scott) and his fellow Lumon innies (and outies) reeling from the shocking events that happened in the show’s season one finale, which aired in 2022.

To generate buzz about the acclaimed drama’s new season, Scott and his costarsBritt Lower, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman andPatricia Arquetteall gathered as their respective characters for a live performance installation at Grand Central Station on Jan. 14.

Several social media users postedvideos ofthe installmentand snapped the cast acting as their characters in a makeshift office space in the center of the New York City train station.

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