Better watch what you're chowing down on if you have expensive dental jewelry like your pal Post Malone -- who recently told a story of what could have been the most expensive chicken nugget ever.
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Speaking with Esquire for a new cover story, Posty began the interview with a tale of him almost losing some major bank -- a $600,000 dental fang -- after dropping one of them down a drain in a fit of post-show hunger.
Malone, as fans know, has a whopping $1.2 million worth of elective dental diamond work inside of his mouth, and every so often something tends to pop loose. One of those times occurred during a tour stop in Rome, Italy.
While he was chomping into some chicken nuggets (hey, when in Rome?), he says he "had the left one in [his] hand, and [he] dropped it right into the sink hole." His reaction was like any of ours if we had just lost a house down a sink drain: "I’m like, 'F***, man, I’m going to have to go into the ancient Roman sewers.'"
He ended up fashioning a rudimentary scooper out of a plastic takeout-pizza tripod (what is this guy eating in one of the world's culinary capitals?) and eventually was able to bring the twelve-carat gem to jewelers and dentists who reshaped, polished, and re-embedded the bling into his teeth.
By the end of his chat, Malone was without his ice once again after popping one of his diamonds loose at a steakhouse. "I felt a click, and I thought, 'That feels weird,'" he explains. "And then the next bite I took, I said, ‘It’s gone.’" Luckily he was able to save the diamond and would have it re-applied the following day.
Check out the full interview HERE.
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