Conan O'Brien recalls traumatic experiences: 'Hard to process'

Conan O'Brien recently got candid about his past year and its challenges. 

In a new chat on his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, the show host shared rare details on how his tumultuous year impacted him. 

Recalling how he reacted to the news of his father's death, he began,"We dropped everything. I jumped in a van, flew a couple of flights back to Boston, got there." 

It is pertinent to mention that in November, Conan lost his father while he was in Austria shooting Conan O'Brien Must Go. 

In addition to this, Conan also lost his mother and as he had different career engagements, including hosting the Academy Awards and shooting a travel series in six months, he had very little time to process the grief. 

"And then two days after arriving, my mom passed away. And so it was this very powerful, strange time, and it was this double funeral, and everything was sort of chaotic and hard to process," he continued. 

"Dislocated from my home and we're working on the Oscars," he recalled referring to his displacement during the LA wildfires, "I'm living in a hotel. Craziness."

"Because of all this stuff that had happened before and because I was kind of running on fumes, I think I was sillier during those three days," he reflected and signed off from the sad chat by mentioning, "I was extra crazy silly and free-associating like someone on drugs... I was in a fugue state."