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Machine Gun Kelly Banned from TSA PreCheck!

Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) has revealed he's not permitted to use TSA PreCheck or any other time-saving service to board flights faster.The 36-year-old music artis...

Machine Gun Kelly Banned from TSA PreCheck!
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(MGK) has revealed he's not permitted to use TSA PreCheck or any other time-saving service to board flights faster.

The 36-year-old music artist,  last week, shared on a recent episode of the Take Flight podcast that he is banned from using the popular government program due to a prior drug possession charge.

Kelly, who spoke to host Hadyn Wings backstage at Kudos Bank Arena in , said it took him eight years to return to Australia amid the legal ordeal.

'I got caught with cocaine on the way back from last time I was out here. Traveling was difficult because I have a level one narcotics possession or whatever,' he explained to Wings.

'I still don't get [TSA] PreCheck or Global Entry or any of that fast stuff in the airport,' the performer noted. 'I'm still stuck in lines like normal.'

Earlier this month MGK – real name Colson Baker – took to Instagram to share photos from his time in Oceania, writing in a caption: 'I won't wait 8 years to come back again. thank you Australia, love ya heeps.'

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Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) has revealed he's not permitted to use TSA PreCheck or any other time-saving service to board flights faster; pictured in January

The 36-year-old music artist shared on a recent episode of the Take Flight podcast that he is banned from using the popular government program due to a prior drug possession charge

In August 2024 the father-of-two announced he had been .

While on Bunnie Xo's Dumb Blonde podcast, he opened up about his decision to stop using drugs and drinking alcohol.

Kelly, who spoke to host Hadyn Wings backstage at Kudos Bank Arena in Sydney, said it took him eight years to return to Australia amid the legal ordeal

'I got caught with cocaine on the way back from New Zealand last time I was out here. Traveling was difficult because I have a level one narcotics possession or whatever,' he explained

The singer-songwriter shares one-year-old daughter Saga with ex-girlfriend Megan Fox, 39. He is also dad to 16-year-old daughter Casie, whom he shares with ex-girlfriend Emma Cannon

Saga turned one on March 27, and on April 1 the doting dad used Instagram to pay tribute to the little girl.

He shared a slew of photos with his 9.2 million followers and simply wrote, '1,' in the caption, along with cupcake and burning heart emojis. 

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Fox and MGK have opted to keep their daughter's face private.

Last August the rock star heaped praise on the actress for caring for Saga.

While appearing on the Today show when she was four months old, he told host Jenna Bush Hager, 'I want to detract all of the congrats to me and just move it to Megan because she really does all the work.'

He joked, 'I keep getting called 'the music teacher,'' before sharing, 'Someone the other day was like, 'You're such a good dad!' just because I was holding the baby.

'And [Megan] was fuming, like, 'No, no, no, no.' She's the one. I just play the guitar and pray that the baby is happy.'

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