Celebrities who battled addiction and won
While the world of celebrities is filled with stories of those who lost their battles against addiction, not all celebrity addictions have an unhappy ending. Here's a look at some stars who have fought addictions and won.
Early in his career, Samuel L. Jackson developed addictions to alcohol and cocaine. After seeing the effects of his addiction, his family entered him in a New York rehab clinic, with his first post-rehab role being that of a crack cocaine addict in Spike Lee's 1991 movie "Jungle Fever." Jackson has called the role cathartic for him.
"Home Improvement" star Tim Allen's struggles growing up have been well documented. Allen spent more than two years in prison after pleading guilty to a cocaine-trafficking charge in 1978, but it took a 1997 DUI arrest that sent him to rehab to get clean and sober.
Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie developed an addiction to crystal methamphetamine while part of the girl band Wild Orchid in the 1990s. "It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with," she told Time magazine in September 2006. The singer had stated in several interviews that she used hypnotherapy to help overcome her addiction.
Alice Cooper once called himself "probably the most functional alcoholic ever," but that was before he embraced Christianity in the mid-1980s and stopped drinking for good. He's since taken to counseling other rock musicians with addiction problems.
In the late 1990s, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor turned to alcohol and drugs to deal with depression, social anxiety disorder and the death of his grandmother, who raised him. In 2001, he successfully completed rehab for addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
British comedian Russell Brand is a former heroin addict and a recovering alcoholic. He has abstained from drug use since 2002 and has cited his practice of transcendental meditation as a significant factor in his recovery.
In his memoir, horror master Stephen King tells of a 1987 intervention by family and friends in which they dumped evidence of his addictions from the trash, including beer cans, cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil and marijuana, on the rug in front of him. King wrote that he sought help and quit all forms of drugs and alcohol and has remained sober since.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell entered rehab in 1999 after a five-year addiction to cocaine. In a 2005 interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, she referred to cocaine as a "very nasty drug."
After several stints in rehab for an addiction to prescription painkillers, Kelly Osbourne says she has been clean since 2009. "I knew I'd been given another chance at my life, at my career, at happiness. I wanted to grab it," she wrote in her 2009 autobiography "Fierce."
Mary Tyler Moore first went public with her battle with alcoholism in her 1995 book "After All." She sought treatment in the 1980s at the Betty Ford Center after keeping her problem hidden from family and friends.
"One Day at a Time" actress Mackenzie Phillips first tried cocaine at age 11 with her father and was fired from the show over her drug abuse. Phillips, who later aired out her issues with a stint on "Celebrity Rehab" and a tell-all memoir, says she has been sober since a 2008 arrest for drug possession.
Actor Dennis Quaid has spoken several times about his past abuse of cocaine when he first came to Hollywood in the 1970s, telling Larry King in 2002 that "I saw myself being dead in about five years if I didn't stop."
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a recovering alcoholic who was once addicted to painkillers she began using after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure. She became sober in 1999 and has said that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.
Country singer Keith Urban checked himself into the Betty Ford Center a few months after marrying fellow Aussie Nicole Kidman in 2006 for treatment of an alcohol addiction. He has remained sober since.
Ben Affleck entered alcohol rehab in 2001, with a spokesman for the actor saying that "Ben is a self-aware and smart man who had decided that a fuller life awaits him without alcohol."
"Sex and the City" star Kristin Davis told Health magazine in 2008 that she was a recovering alcoholic who found sobriety at age 22. "I've never hid it, but I've been sober the whole time I've been famous, so it wasn't like I had to go to rehab publicly," Davis said at the time.
Throughout the 1980s, Boy George struggled with a heroin addiction, but addictions to other drugs would also follow. After getting clean and enjoying 16 years of sobriety, he relapsed in 2003 and eventually found himself in trouble with the law, including serving four months in prison. He now claims more than four years of sobriety.
The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed became famous for his debauched lifestyle, at one point quipping that he tried to quit drugs by drinking. One of his most famous songs is simply titled "Heroin." But by the 1980s he'd cleaned up his act. He even appeared in a 1989 "Rock Against Drugs" PSA stating, "Drugs. I stopped. You shouldn't start."
In the fall of 2013, Lady Gaga admitted to being addicted to many substances at various points in her life, including marijuana, but said she got to the point where she knew she "had to stop" because she was jeopardizing her health.
Early in his career, Samuel L. Jackson developed addictions to alcohol and cocaine. After seeing the effects of his addiction, his family entered him in a New York rehab clinic, with his first post-rehab role being that of a crack cocaine addict in Spike Lee's 1991 movie "Jungle Fever." Jackson has called the role cathartic for him.
"Home Improvement" star Tim Allen's struggles growing up have been well documented. Allen spent more than two years in prison after pleading guilty to a cocaine-trafficking charge in 1978, but it took a 1997 DUI arrest that sent him to rehab to get clean and sober.
Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie developed an addiction to crystal methamphetamine while part of the girl band Wild Orchid in the 1990s. "It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with," she told Time magazine in September 2006. The singer had stated in several interviews that she used hypnotherapy to help overcome her addiction.
Alice Cooper once called himself "probably the most functional alcoholic ever," but that was before he embraced Christianity in the mid-1980s and stopped drinking for good. He's since taken to counseling other rock musicians with addiction problems.
In the late 1990s, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor turned to alcohol and drugs to deal with depression, social anxiety disorder and the death of his grandmother, who raised him. In 2001, he successfully completed rehab for addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
British comedian Russell Brand is a former heroin addict and a recovering alcoholic. He has abstained from drug use since 2002 and has cited his practice of transcendental meditation as a significant factor in his recovery.
In his memoir, horror master Stephen King tells of a 1987 intervention by family and friends in which they dumped evidence of his addictions from the trash, including beer cans, cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil and marijuana, on the rug in front of him. King wrote that he sought help and quit all forms of drugs and alcohol and has remained sober since.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell entered rehab in 1999 after a five-year addiction to cocaine. In a 2005 interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, she referred to cocaine as a "very nasty drug."
After several stints in rehab for an addiction to prescription painkillers, Kelly Osbourne says she has been clean since 2009. "I knew I'd been given another chance at my life, at my career, at happiness. I wanted to grab it," she wrote in her 2009 autobiography "Fierce."
Mary Tyler Moore first went public with her battle with alcoholism in her 1995 book "After All." She sought treatment in the 1980s at the Betty Ford Center after keeping her problem hidden from family and friends.
"One Day at a Time" actress Mackenzie Phillips first tried cocaine at age 11 with her father and was fired from the show over her drug abuse. Phillips, who later aired out her issues with a stint on "Celebrity Rehab" and a tell-all memoir, says she has been sober since a 2008 arrest for drug possession.
Actor Dennis Quaid has spoken several times about his past abuse of cocaine when he first came to Hollywood in the 1970s, telling Larry King in 2002 that "I saw myself being dead in about five years if I didn't stop."
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a recovering alcoholic who was once addicted to painkillers she began using after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure. She became sober in 1999 and has said that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.
Country singer Keith Urban checked himself into the Betty Ford Center a few months after marrying fellow Aussie Nicole Kidman in 2006 for treatment of an alcohol addiction. He has remained sober since.
Ben Affleck entered alcohol rehab in 2001, with a spokesman for the actor saying that "Ben is a self-aware and smart man who had decided that a fuller life awaits him without alcohol."
"Sex and the City" star Kristin Davis told Health magazine in 2008 that she was a recovering alcoholic who found sobriety at age 22. "I've never hid it, but I've been sober the whole time I've been famous, so it wasn't like I had to go to rehab publicly," Davis said at the time.
Throughout the 1980s, Boy George struggled with a heroin addiction, but addictions to other drugs would also follow. After getting clean and enjoying 16 years of sobriety, he relapsed in 2003 and eventually found himself in trouble with the law, including serving four months in prison. He now claims more than four years of sobriety.
The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed became famous for his debauched lifestyle, at one point quipping that he tried to quit drugs by drinking. One of his most famous songs is simply titled "Heroin." But by the 1980s he'd cleaned up his act. He even appeared in a 1989 "Rock Against Drugs" PSA stating, "Drugs. I stopped. You shouldn't start."
In the fall of 2013, Lady Gaga admitted to being addicted to many substances at various points in her life, including marijuana, but said she got to the point where she knew she "had to stop" because she was jeopardizing her health.
Early in his career, Samuel L. Jackson developed addictions to alcohol and cocaine. After seeing the effects of his addiction, his family entered him in a New York rehab clinic, with his first post-rehab role being that of a crack cocaine addict in Spike Lee's 1991 movie "Jungle Fever." Jackson has called the role cathartic for him.
"Home Improvement" star Tim Allen's struggles growing up have been well documented. Allen spent more than two years in prison after pleading guilty to a cocaine-trafficking charge in 1978, but it took a 1997 DUI arrest that sent him to rehab to get clean and sober.
Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie developed an addiction to crystal methamphetamine while part of the girl band Wild Orchid in the 1990s. "It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with," she told Time magazine in September 2006. The singer had stated in several interviews that she used hypnotherapy to help overcome her addiction.
Alice Cooper once called himself "probably the most functional alcoholic ever," but that was before he embraced Christianity in the mid-1980s and stopped drinking for good. He's since taken to counseling other rock musicians with addiction problems.
In the late 1990s, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor turned to alcohol and drugs to deal with depression, social anxiety disorder and the death of his grandmother, who raised him. In 2001, he successfully completed rehab for addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
British comedian Russell Brand is a former heroin addict and a recovering alcoholic. He has abstained from drug use since 2002 and has cited his practice of transcendental meditation as a significant factor in his recovery.
In his memoir, horror master Stephen King tells of a 1987 intervention by family and friends in which they dumped evidence of his addictions from the trash, including beer cans, cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil and marijuana, on the rug in front of him. King wrote that he sought help and quit all forms of drugs and alcohol and has remained sober since.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell entered rehab in 1999 after a five-year addiction to cocaine. In a 2005 interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, she referred to cocaine as a "very nasty drug."
After several stints in rehab for an addiction to prescription painkillers, Kelly Osbourne says she has been clean since 2009. "I knew I'd been given another chance at my life, at my career, at happiness. I wanted to grab it," she wrote in her 2009 autobiography "Fierce."
Mary Tyler Moore first went public with her battle with alcoholism in her 1995 book "After All." She sought treatment in the 1980s at the Betty Ford Center after keeping her problem hidden from family and friends.
"One Day at a Time" actress Mackenzie Phillips first tried cocaine at age 11 with her father and was fired from the show over her drug abuse. Phillips, who later aired out her issues with a stint on "Celebrity Rehab" and a tell-all memoir, says she has been sober since a 2008 arrest for drug possession.
Actor Dennis Quaid has spoken several times about his past abuse of cocaine when he first came to Hollywood in the 1970s, telling Larry King in 2002 that "I saw myself being dead in about five years if I didn't stop."
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a recovering alcoholic who was once addicted to painkillers she began using after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure. She became sober in 1999 and has said that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.
Country singer Keith Urban checked himself into the Betty Ford Center a few months after marrying fellow Aussie Nicole Kidman in 2006 for treatment of an alcohol addiction. He has remained sober since.
Ben Affleck entered alcohol rehab in 2001, with a spokesman for the actor saying that "Ben is a self-aware and smart man who had decided that a fuller life awaits him without alcohol."
"Sex and the City" star Kristin Davis told Health magazine in 2008 that she was a recovering alcoholic who found sobriety at age 22. "I've never hid it, but I've been sober the whole time I've been famous, so it wasn't like I had to go to rehab publicly," Davis said at the time.
Throughout the 1980s, Boy George struggled with a heroin addiction, but addictions to other drugs would also follow. After getting clean and enjoying 16 years of sobriety, he relapsed in 2003 and eventually found himself in trouble with the law, including serving four months in prison. He now claims more than four years of sobriety.
The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed became famous for his debauched lifestyle, at one point quipping that he tried to quit drugs by drinking. One of his most famous songs is simply titled "Heroin." But by the 1980s he'd cleaned up his act. He even appeared in a 1989 "Rock Against Drugs" PSA stating, "Drugs. I stopped. You shouldn't start."
In the fall of 2013, Lady Gaga admitted to being addicted to many substances at various points in her life, including marijuana, but said she got to the point where she knew she "had to stop" because she was jeopardizing her health.