One of the greatest lessons he’s learned is that he had to want a sober life for himself. And stopping has shown me a world of happiness that I didn’t think was possible.” This is a lesson that we can all learn from Radcliffe. But like most of us, Cooper’s life has had its ups and downs. He is a recovering from alcoholism and has been sober for over a decade. In 2015, he described how alcohol affected virtually everything in his life, “I wouldn’t have been able to have access to myself or other people, or even been able to take in other people, if I hadn’t changed my life.
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Although it took him more than one stint in rehab to get clean, he said that ten years ago, something clicked. He then went on to open a sober men’s living house in Malibu. Russell Brand spent most of his younger years addicted to food and pornography before graduating to alcohol and party drugs, eventually spiraling into four-year heroin addiction. He lost almost everything before he finally got clean in December 2002. He is now married with two children and has written books and produced podcasts on how to help others get clean. “These are pictures from huge moments in life where my eyes just look… gone. Some are from real work shoots, some just beach days with the family,” she added.
- She needn’t have worried; such is her command of metaphor and assonance that she could rivet a reader with a treatise on toast.
- Posting a mental health check in on her Instagram, the mum-of-two explained how she had a “breakthrough in therapy” and decided to quit the booze in late 2022.
- Listening in on the reasons why these famous faces chose to go sober may also be comforting and serve as a source of inspiration, too.
- During an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2017, Farrell celebrated his recovery.
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Clapton recovered, but he continued misusing alcohol and cocaine for years. In 1998, he built the Crossroads Centre for alcohol and drug treatment on the Caribbean island of Antigua. The actor says he used drugs before he was a teenager and spent most of his early career under their influence. He had several high-profile arrests in the late 1990s and early 2000s while misusing alcohol, cocaine, and heroin and spent time in a California prison and a state-run rehab facility. Marvel’s 2008 movie Iron Man revived his stalled career. After a nearly fatal overdose in 2018, Demi Lovato has been very open about her struggles with drug addiction.
- The “Cool for the Summer” hitmaker — who also goes by they/them pronouns — announced her sobriety in December 2021 after previously describing herself as “California sober” — meaning she still smokes weed and drinks alcohol socially.
- Sadly, however, there is one artist who was not able to live a life in which he could be both a successful artist and a deeply troubled alcoholic.
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The decision came after a 2016 incident on his family’s private jet led to a child abuse investigation. Angelina Jolie, who Pitt married in 2014, filed for divorce one week after the plane ride. Pitt was cleared by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services in November 2016. One night in 1956, Pollock, who was famous alcoholics 44 at the time, had been drinking with Ruth and a number of other friends when they decided to drive into the night in his Oldsmobile convertible. However, fuelled by alcohol, an accident was almost inevitable and Pollock ended up careering straight into a tree and flipping the car – killing himself and his friend Edith Metzger.
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