19 Celebrities Who’ve Struggled With Addiction And Gotten Sober

When my debut single [Bleeding Love] went to No.1, I celebrated with non-alcoholic champagne.” 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.” Superstar DJ Calvin Harris hasn’t touch drink for over eight years, after hitting the bottle quite heavily in his early career. Answering a question from a fan on his Twitter, Calvin said that drinking was “clearly affecting” his performances, but that now his shows were “a million times better.”

Danielle Radcliff made the decision to get sober in 2010 when he realized he was using alcohol to cope with fame. In the singer’s 2012 Women of the Year profile by British GQ, Del Ray explained that she struggled with alcohol addition for most of her early teenage years, finally getting sober before she turned 20 after moving to New York City to pursue her music. During one of her recent performances at her Las Vegas residency, Adele revealed she’s opted to give up drinking all together. It’s a marked change for the star, 35, who previously revealed she has “a very close relationship” with alcohol and has long been fascinated by it, due to her father’s absence (partly due to his drinking issues).

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“No judgement to anyone. Be gentle with yourself.” She went on to tell her followers that she was “sober & loving life” after sharing a video of herself cooking fried chicken. Welch told the podcaster it was “fine to be a chaotic mess” when she was a relatively unknown artist, but knew she had to make a change after the release of her Grammy-nominated album Ceremonials in 2012. “I was like, ‘This has to be contained. This can’t leak out into the public sphere,'” she said.

• Lana del Rey began drinking daily and independently from her extremely young teen years, with her parents resorting to sending her to a boarding school outside of New York City to break her out of her cycle.
• DJ and producer Calvin Harris told the BBC that he stopped drinking because it was affecting his work.
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• Country music star Keith Urban entered treatment for the third
  time in 2006 and has been sober ever since.
• “It was something I realized just did not serve me and my life,” she said, noting that she’s “been very private with a lot of struggles” because of social media.
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Because they are still landing roles, they feel as though their addiction “isn’t that bad” or something that they need to worry about. I don’t think I even really liked drinking — it just seemed to make things a lot easier. Now when people ask, I tell them that it just doesn’t suit me…

Josh Peck Opens Up About His Past Addiction To Drugs And Alcohol: ‘I Used It To Numb My Feelings’

The Teen Wolf alum announced in March 2019 that he is six months sober after quietly battling drug and alcohol addiction for a decade. “I got married [to Jeff Leatham in 2018] and that didn’t work out. That was extremely public and heartbreaking, and right when that was going on, my mom died,” he told Attitude magazine. Haynes revealed that he hit rock bottom when he locked himself in a hotel room during a seven-day bender and “ended up in [a] 5150 psych hold.” He completed a four-month treatment program soon after. The actress revealed on CBS This Morning in December 2021 that she quit drinking alcohol two and a half years prior.

During an appearance on The Dr. Oz Show, Dash opened up about the height of her addiction where she ended up taking between 18 and 20 Vicodin pills per day. Worthington noted that he would have his first drink in the sobriety stories morning. “Nine out of 10 people couldn’t tell. They could probably smell it on me, but when they looked at me, they couldn’t tell,” he said. “I was still doing my job — I just don’t think I was doing it very well.”

Macklemore Entered Rehab in 2008

In 2001, RDJ violated his parole and was arrested after he was found wandering barefoot in California on suspicion of being under the influence. As a result, he was fired from his TV and film jobs and sent to another rehabilitation center. With the support of his wife, he was able to recover through treatment methods including 12-step programs, yoga, meditation, and therapy. RDJ’s career began to take off again, and he rose to stardom in 2008 after starring in Iron Man and Tropic Thunder. He has since become one of the most noteworthy celebrities in film, and his 16 years of sobriety after such a hard fall make his comeback story one of the most impressive in Hollywood.