“I am an addict and had thought that I had enough time under my belt and I could drink like a normal person, and it turns out I cannot and I will never be normal,” Osbourne told Extra at the time. During an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2017, Farrell celebrated his recovery. He reportedly checked into rehab again in 2018 as a preventative measure when he began to feel urges, according to The Sun. “Maybe a stronger person wouldn’t have needed to go,” he said. “When you hear the word rehab, you think, ‘He’s a mess, he’s fucked up.’ But I’m glad I did it. I’ve made a shitload of wrong decisions in my life. But I know I’ve made some right ones as well.”

George Clooney & Brad Pitt Share How They’ve Leaned on Each Other During ‘Complicated’ Stages of Life

• Humphrey Bogart is considered one of the greatest Hollywood actors and a legend.
• The actor says he used drugs before he was a teenager and spent most of his early career under their influence.
• It’s a human experience that, in order to beat, one must first face head-on.
• Pitt, who shares kids Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16, with Jolie, 49, didn’t shy away about his journey to seek help.
• “Harry Potter” actor Daniel Radcliffe drank heavily as a teen to cope with his global stardom.

“While I honestly STILL don’t know if I’ll never have a drink again, I do know I never want to be that way again. And for now, none is best. I’ll let the bad dreams come up and try to sort them out in therapy, without booze.” “I didn’t one day wake up and say, ‘I’m giving up drinking’. I just – like many Brits – had had famous alcoholics a very, very boozy December. Christmas time, I was on vacation, I was drinking a lot,” Tom explained. “I decided to just give up for January… and all I could think about was having a drink. It was all I could think about. I was waking up thinking about it, I was checking the clock… and it just really scared me.”

Brad Pitt stepped away from drinking.

Last year, Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine revealed in a Spotify Original podcast, The Way We Are with Munroe Bergdorf that she had been sober for eight years. It comes as she recalled her early days with the band, when she realised that – during their rise to fame – she had issues with alcohol. Having started drinking at just 16, the Formula One driver, now 38, has embraced a sober curious lifestyle after accepting how debilitating his hangovers had become. “The time between 1998 and 2005 was especially bad,” the supermodel told Vogue about her cocaine addiction. “During that time, I avoided looking in the mirror, because I didn’t like the person who was looking back at me. To be honest, there were times I thought I wouldn’t survive.” Harrington shared his struggles with alcohol and addiction in an interview with The Sunday Times saying ‘I went through some pretty horrible stuff,’.

Bradley Cooper has been sober since he was 29.

• He says he drank a lot during filming of the last three Potter films, and finally realized it was something he couldn’t control.
• He turned to alcohol to cope with the uncertainty in his life surrounding the movie series coming to an end and not feeling secure enough in himself to stay sober.
• In her interviews, Lynch shares that she has been struggling with alcoholism, depression, and cold medicine addiction but has maintained her sobriety since 1991.

An estimated 20 million women and 10 million men in America have struggled with an eating disorder in their lifetime. The general population pretty much mirrors accomplished, wealthy people and celebrities in recovery when it comes to eating disorders. What do Demi Lovato, Nicole Richie, Lady Gaga, Paula Abdul, Taylor Swift, and Alanis Morissette have in common? Besides incredible wealth and fame, they’re all famous people with mental disorders, specifically eating disorders. Studies show that when it comes to mental illness, the sexes are not the same. Men have a greater tendency toward substance abuse and antisocial behaviors while women are at higher risk of developing depression and anxiety.

Celebrities Who Have Struggled With Alcohol Addiction

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• He joined Alcoholics Anonymous and started seeing a therapist to help him on his journey, but added that battling addictions is a “never-ending struggle.”
• In 2019, the Game of Thrones actor went to rehab for “mostly alcohol.”
• He also admitted that it “took me a long time to fundamentally, deeply, without a hint of doubt, admit to myself that I am an alcoholic.”
• Also, people with mood and anxiety disorders are twice as likely to suffer from a substance use disorder compared to those who do not have mental illness.
• She was forced to take over her own management from her troubled parents, eventually leading to exhaustion and a 2006 hospital stay during filming.