Bradley Cooper got sober at the age of 29 after spending years dealing with a drug and alcohol addiction behind closed doors. “My decision to become sober wasn’t out of a need necessarily, it was more just that I did ‘sober January’ and I just decided to keep going,” she told People back in 2017. Sometimes taking a break allows people to realise they don’t miss alcohol so much after all. The Harry Potter star explained this his drinking problem stemmed from feeling lost in life. “I definitely think a lot of the drinking that happened towards the end of Potter, and for a little bit after it finished, it was panic and not knowing what to do next, and not being comfortable enough in who I was to remain sober.” Best known to Stranger Things fans as Vecna, Jamie Campbell Bower stopped drinking eight years ago and has been open about his struggle with addiction.
Kelly Osbourne celebrated one year of sobriety in May 2022.
Contact us today if you or a loved one needs help with addiction or mental health issues. What’s interesting about Lovato’s story is that when she first went to addiction treatment, it came out that she is one of the celebrities with bipolar 1 disorder. This mental illness is characterized by intense periods of high energy (mania) alternating with deep depression. The emotional instability puts people at very high risk of becoming addicted to drugs. People choose to stop drinking for a number of reasons (a decision made a whole lot easier by all the great alcohol-free drink options on offer nowadays), from wanting to improve their mental health to certain medical conditions. Over the years, many sober celebrities have chosen to speak out about their choice to ditch booze too – from Chrissy Teigen to Cara Delevingne.
- Add to this the constant stress of being in the public eye.
- She would eventually set up a foundation which shared both their names, and which continues to support emerging artists to fund their practice, acquire supplies, and rent space to work.
- He has been sober for 18 years and practises transcendental meditation and works out to maintain a healthy body and mind.
- He later spent time at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison and has focused on staying sober since.
- Post-treatment following her overdose, Lovato decided to be “California sober” — aka still drinking and smoking weed — but in 2021, she announced she was officially “sober sober.”
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“For anyone who wakes up thinking ‘oh god not again’ I promise you there’s a way.” Cooper played a musician struggling with addiction in 2018’s “A Star Is Born,” which he also directed. These celebrities illustrate that alcohol is often used to self-medicate — to alleviate life’s famous alcoholics stressors. Their honesty about their struggles are both heartbreaking and endearing. You may find some inspiration from celebrities who have publicly talked about these struggles. Perhaps Ford’s greatest legacy was the honesty she brought to the American idea of alcoholism.
Naomi Campbell joined Alcoholics Anonymous.
Not about her sobriety—about how hard-won it was, how necessary to her survival as both a writer and a woman—but about the value of a story that isn’t unique at all. Jamison is concerned from the outset that her book will not escape “the tedious architecture and tawdry self-congratulation of a redemption story”—that it will, in short, be boring. She needn’t have worried; such is her command of metaphor and assonance that she could rivet a reader with a treatise on toast.
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Lana Del Ray began drinking as a teenager and even got sent to a boarding school when she was 14 in an attempt to get sober, according to her 2012 profile with GQ. If you would have told me 365 days ago that I would be sober, happy, and about to be a mumma I would have laughed in your face,” the then-pregnant star gushed. Life is too beautiful,” Jim Carrey told “60 Minutes” in 2004. Two years prior, he celebrated his sobriety journey by sharing an encouraging message to others who may be struggling. If I hadn’t finally taken the big step of asking for help 30 years ago, I’d be dead,” he wrote on Instagram in 2020 to commemorate three decades of sobriety.
Josh Brolin celebrated eight years of sobriety in 2021.
- For country music star Tim McGraw, getting on stage to perform in the early days of his career led to binge drinking.
- “I was a big drinker at the time. I would drink every day. I would drink alone. … I knew it was a problem when I liked it more than I liked doing anything else.”
- If you remember our survey of 50 celebrities in recovery, it showed that nearly half had battled drug addiction.
- “If you drink, you can’t even remember if it’s a good show or not — and that’s probably for the best, because it would have been rubbish because I’d have been drunk and not making any sense.”