Star-Studded Addictions: Jessica Simpson
Singer Jessica Simpson realized she needed to get sober after Halloween 2017, when she felt she wasn’t in a state to get her kids in their costumes and later didn’t remember how they’d gotten them on. She’d had her first drink at 7:30 that morning. Simpson has since opened up about having used alcohol and […]
Star-Studded Addictions: Marc Maron
Comedian and actor Marc Maron has been sober since August 9th, 1999. It took him decades of quitting and picking back up before reaching this amount of continuous sobriety. “If you would have told me back then that I wouldn’t desire a drink or that I wouldn’t desire to do drugs at some point in […]
Star-Studded Addictions: Russell Brand
On December 13th of last year, comedian and actor Russell Brand celebrated 18 years of sobriety. At the height of his addiction, he was sneaking into friends’ bathrooms to do heroin or crack in secret. He also struggled with alcohol use. He lost girlfriends, friends, and jobs. Brand believes that for a long time, his […]
Star-Studded Addictions: Stephen King
There are entire books that author Stephen King doesn’t remember writing. During active addiction, he wrote some of his worst alcohol-induced impulses into his characters. Jack Torrance of the Shining is one example; since being sober, King has admitted to wanting to grab and hit his children when he was drunk. King started drinking at […]
Star-Studded Addictions: Brad Pitt
Actor Brad Pitt has been sober since 2016, following his divorce with actor Angelina Jolie. Pitt is tight-lipped about their divorce, but it’s rumored the couple argued over Pitt’s drinking. However, Pitt hasn’t been private about the fact that he struggled with substance use long before he and Jolie got together. Before becoming a celebrity, […]
Star-Studded Addictions: Demi Lovato
In singer and actor Demi Lovato’s 2018 song “Sober,” she revealed that she’d relapsed. After six years sober, Lovato started drinking and using drugs again. She continued using substances for the next three months, ending with a hospital stay for an overdose. Since the relapse, Lovato has regained two and a half years of continuous […]
Jamie Lee Curtis’ Story of Addiction and Recovery
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis knew she needed to get sober when her sister Kelly was visiting, and she stole Kelly’s Vicodin. Kelly had been prescribed the pills after an injury but didn’t like the way they made her feel. Unaware of her sister’s Vicodin addiction—Curtis had been keeping it a secret for 10 years—Kelly threw […]