15 celebrities who put their careers in jeopardy because of drugs
Actress Amanda Bynes - a teenage idol from the turn of the century - and Kim Kardashian have been the last to publicly confess the terrible effects that addiction had on their lives.
Amanda Bynes-Once one of the main faces of film and television among teenagers at the beginning of the century, she has reappeared after four years of forced retirement to detoxify her addiction to drugs. In Paper magazine, Bynes opens up for the first time about the devastating effect the use of marijuana, ecstasy and Adderall (a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity) had on her career. The actress confesses that the world became a "dark and very sad" place for her, also warning readers to be "very careful" with drugs: "Because you could lose everything and ruin your life completely, as I did" . Will she be able to remake her career like the stars on the rest of the list did? For now, she has already confirmed in these pages her desire to return to the industry "without limitations."
Kim Kardashian-One of the last celebrities to speak publicly about the effect that drug use had on her life has been her famous businesswoman, within her reality television Keeping Up With The Kardashians. “I was married to the point of ecstasy. That was the first time (that I used). I took it just one more time and made a sex tape. It's like anything horrible that could happen to me happens when I take it, ”Kim said in the presence of her sister, model Kendall Jenner. From that porn video she managed to build a multimillion dollar empire. A few dates ago the influencer met with President Trump to ask for the pardon of a 63-year-old great-grandmother convicted of a drug crime, being granted the commutation of the sentence.
Robert Downey Jr. - The Iron Man performer is one of the most incredible reinventions in Hollywood history. The one who is considered to be one of the benchmarks of the highest grossing and family cinema came to step on jail after being arrested for possession of drugs (and for consumption in public places, violating parole, etc.), an addiction that also ended his romantic relationship with Sarah Jessica Parker. "It's like having a loaded gun in your mouth, and your finger on the trigger, you know it can be fired at any time, but you like the metal taste of the gun," he said.
Demi Lovato- “She was not able to be sober. Either she was drugged or she was thinking about drugs ”, affirmed the protagonist of the film Camp Rock, one of the last to keep the‘ Disney girl curse ’in force and which encompasses all the child stars who go through personal dramas. This July, she relapsed from an addiction that she started when she was 17 years old and that nearly cost her her life. She now she is recovering in a rehab center. “What I learned is that this disease is not something that fades with time. It is something that I must continue to overcome and I have not done it yet. I'm going to keep fighting, ”she said in an open letter to her followers.
Bradley Cooper - “If I continued to use I would sabotage my entire life,” declared the protagonist and director of A Star Is Born in an interview in 2012. At the beginning of his career, his addiction led him to have suicidal thoughts, deliberately hurt himself and sabotage its continuity in hit series like Alias. Cooper, who claims to have been sober for thirteen years, used his dark past to reflect it on his character Jackson Maine in the newly released musical. The one from Philadelphia defined the experience as "cathartic." The paradox is that he raised his head, professionally, thanks to a "hangover" ... in Las Vegas.
Angelina Jolie - “I went through very strong, very dark episodes and I survived. I did not die young. I am very lucky, "said the actress on the television program 60 Minutes in 2011, after publicly admitting" to have taken every possible drug, from heroin to ecstasy. " Her reputation in Hollywood was such that the Paramount studio only agreed to give her the role of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider if she took a daily drug test before filming. Jolie managed to become one of the most respected actresses in Hollywood. After her traumatic divorce and several projects of her as a director, in 2020 she will return to the front line with the long-awaited sequel to Maleficent.
Drew Barrymore - His case is one of the harshest and most unlikely of all that occurred in the mecca of cinema. Like so many other child prodigies, he rose to fame on E.T. being a girl it cost her childhood. At the age of 8, she went to discos accompanied by her mother, and at 11 she was already consuming drugs and alcohol. Shortly after, she cut her veins and was hospitalized. Her terrible precocious records reach the point that at the age of 14 she separated from her parents legally from her and at 16 she made a living cleaning bathrooms, already exiled from Hollywood. Miraculously, Barrymore managed to recover from all that and maintains a stable career in the mecca of cinema. When asked recently if he misses cocaine use, the interpreter was clear: "Nothing would seem like a bigger nightmare than that."
Ben Affleck - Complete detoxification is an arduous, lengthy, and relapse-prone process. Proof of this is the actor and film director like Argo, who has entered rehabilitation clinics up to three times since 2001 to overcome his addiction to alcohol. This past October 4, Affleck published on his Instagram account a letter of thanks to his family, friends and fans after successfully completing the forty-day stay at the center. “Fighting any addiction is a lifelong and difficult fight. You are never really in or out of treatment. It is a full time commitment. I am fighting for myself and for my family (…) As I have had to remind myself, when you have a problem asking for help is a sign of courage, not of weakness or failure, ”he said in the letter. Along the way, Warner Bros has ruled him out to put himself back in the shoes of the bat man, Batman.
Ed Sheeran - The British singer surprised everyone by confessing that the gap year he took in 2016 was actually a forced break to detox from substance abuse. Although he did not specify what drugs he was hooked on, Sheeran did open up about use that began gradually at parties and ended up escaping his control. “Suddenly I found myself taking these substances by myself. I couldn't go on like this. I couldn't write music that way. Neither act. I've worked so hard all my life to get where I am to lose everything because of something that happened in my spare time, "he explained on The Jonathan Ross Show. An experience that would later transform into songs from his album Divide, the best-selling album in the world in 2017.
Brad Pitt - In May 2017, the Fight Club actor gave the US edition of GQ what is perhaps his most candid and commented interview to date. Pitt broke his silence after the divorce from Angelina Jolie by confessing that his addiction to alcohol was one of the main reasons for his separation from her. “He drank a lot. It became a problem. I'm very happy that half a year has passed (sober), which is bittersweet, but I feel things on my fingertips again. " Brad Pitt's professional career is currently in a hiatus that will extend until next year, when he releases the new Quentin Tarantino Once upon a time in Hollywood, with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Sia-The songwriter and performer of hits like Chandelier - which she wrote inspired by her addiction - was hooked for many years on painkillers and alcohol. “Today you are eight years sober. I love you, keep it up. You can do it. to hide his face from then on.
Eminem-This past April 22, the Detroit rapper posted a photo on his Instagram account of him showing a plaque commemorating his 10 years of sobriety. In 2007, Eminem came very close to death after suffering a methadone overdose, which his doctor told him amounted to "four little packets of heroin." In a talk with his friend Elton John, the protagonist of the film 8 miles confessed that "being clean had allowed him to grow as a person."
Lady Gaga - Although the best-selling singer and now celebrated actress is a well-known advocate for marijuana use, Gaga has also been explicit about the negative effects that cocaine addiction had on her mental health. “I was very unhappy at that time in my life. I felt very lonely and there was something about drugs that made me feel like I had a friend. He didn't do it with other people. I did it alone. I did it alone in my apartment, I wrote music and, you know, I regret every line I got into. To all the fans who are listening to me, do not touch her, she is the devil ”, she assured during her visit to the Howard Stern program.
Lindsay Lohan - From Disney star to manager of a beach club in Mykonos. The actress, a contemporary of Amanda Bynes, has gone through several rehabilitation clinics and has even ended up in jail for driving under the influence of alcohol. The last we heard from her is that she was going to star in a reality show for MTV based on the day-to-day life of her club and that she intended to work as a performer again. “Everyone has ups and downs in their life. Being in the public eye, having a lot of pressure ... I did not know how to handle my private life because I was very young, I surrounded myself with people who should not have been by my side. I would not blame anyone for anything that happened in my life, "she confessed.
Elton John - Just a handful of concerts separate the legendary musician from the end of a brilliant career, marked in its beginnings by an overcome addiction to drugs, and that in recent years he tried to use as an example - without luck - for the situation of friends like George Michael. “I tried to help him, but you can't help people who don't want to be helped. I learned that as an addict and I have been clean and sober for 28 years. When people told me while I was using that I shouldn't do it, I got angry and threw them out (…) It took me 16 years to recognize that I needed help, ”he declared on Channel 4 News. And despite popular legend, his anthem Rocket Man is not a metaphor for substance abuse.
