‘Riverdale’ alum KJ Apa name-drops co-star that punched him in the face at strip club

KJ Apa put his “Riverdale” co-star Cole Sprouse connected blast for erstwhile punching him successful nan look successful a caller interview.

Speaking connected Tuesday’s “Wildmen” podcast episode, nan character explained that incident, which happened astatine a portion club, was meant to beryllium a “wake-up” call.

“At this time, I was doing a batch of narcotics and a batch of my adjacent friends were worried astir me,” nan 29-year-old told Cole’s copy brother, Dylan Sprouse, and his co-host Brendan Columbus.

“And he had learned that I was doing narcotics again.”

The “Map That Leads to You” prima yet dubbed nan onslaught a “love punch.”

Dylan, who witnessed nan jab, went connected to chide Apa for moving distant from Cole “like an ostrich.”

The “Suite Life of Zack and Cody” alum, 33, remembered, “I looked astatine my relative aft that, and I was like, ‘Dude, you could person conscionable died.’”

Dylan noted that he “made nan correction of trying to pursuit after” Apa, who was “three blocks distant by nan clip [he] was just, like, getting [his] bearings.”

The erstwhile Disney Channel prima called Apa instead, quipping, “You mightiness still person nan voicemail.”

Dylan felt nan relationship highlighted Apa and Cole’s “beautiful” enslaved while respectively playing Archie Andrews and Jughead connected nan CW show, which ran from 2017 to 2023.

It made Dylan consciousness “safe” to cognize his related was filming successful Canada pinch “someone who’s … of a akin mentality to him, [a] akin benignant of person.’”

Cole’s rep did not instantly respond to Page Six’s petition for comment.

Elsewhere successful nan sitdown, Apa opened up astir his struggles pinch addiction and a “gnarly” eating disorder.

“I utilized to eat donuts each time long. Go backmost to my trailer, propulsion up,” he said earlier describing 1 acquisition wherever he binged accelerated nutrient — and past took it extracurricular and peed connected it to extremity himself.

Apa later sewage “hungry again” aft purging and “ate astir nan piss.”

He added, “I had truthful galore things that I was doing that were truthful unhealthy that benignant of bred passim that show, possibly because of … nan environment, having my garment disconnected each nan time. Even conscionable experiencing fame.”

Apa went nationalist pinch his sobriety past year, crediting his alteration pinch son Sasha’s birth.

If you aliases personification you attraction astir is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, telephone SAMHSA’s National Helpline astatine 1-800-662-HELP (4357).