celebrities are people too and their
struggles often take place far from the
cameras welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 celebs you had no idea
battled addiction before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at
now clean celebrities who struggled with
some form of addiction in the past
either before becoming famous or while
keeping it secret from the press number
10 Bradley Cooper – a night we’ll never
remember but the four of us will never
forget while Bradley Cooper’s big
mainstream break was playing Phil in the
hangover he appeared in 46 episodes of
alias between 2001 and 2006 maybe get
fooled bottles of champagne and I’m
gonna tip you like I all did fun and it
almost killed him literally at the time
Cooper was an alcoholic and taking
various drugs and he believes that it
negatively affected his potential I
would never be sitting here with you no
way no chance because because 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 no way when he only received
sporadic and dwindling work on alias he
considered himself a failed actor and
contemplated taking his own life after
realizing that he was ruining his life
Cooper went sober and eventually earned
more consistent and lucrative work
leading him to the a-list he sits atop
today
[Music]
number nine ed Sheeran it’s no secret
that Ed Sheeran enjoys a beer but you
may be surprised to hear that it almost
ruined his life while appearing on the
Jonathan Ross show Sheeran said that he
fell into various pitfalls of Fame one
of them being constant partying and
substance abuse he later told people
that he was downing up to six pints of
beer a night after gradually slipping
deeper into substance abuse he was
helped by his girlfriend and colleagues
and took a year off for music he since
lost 50 pounds due to cutting his beer
intake and no longer drinks to excess
I still do all those things we’re just
not in excess my dad said anything in
moderation
so yeah I just basically needed to leave
it to motivate number 8 Terry Crews
Terry Crews has always been an open book
whether it’s testifying against being a
victim of sexual assault or opening up
about his addiction to pornography I was
a card-carrying member of this toxic
masculinity and it all came through with
me realizing that I didn’t know
everything in a facebook video pre spoke
about his addiction seeing that he spent
entire days watching pornography and
that it severely affected his marriage
my dirty little secret was that I was
addicted to pornography for years now
most of you who are on Facebook are
using the internet and I it’s kind of
crazy because this thing has become a
problem I think it’s a you know a
worldwide problem he managed to keep it
a secret from his family and it wasn’t
until his wife stopped trusting him and
left that Cruz sought help and entered
rehab luckily he was able to repair his
relationship and now openly speaks about
the challenges of masculinity and
addiction you’re successful you feel
like that buys you a pass that it’s her
that it’s them
it’s everyone else but then a small
voice came to me and said baby it’s me
number seven Lady gaga marijuana is
often seen as a relatively harmless
habit but that doesn’t mean it’s a good
thing in excess as Lady Gaga could tell
you to deal with the pressures of Fame
and
pain of a significant hip injury Gaga
began experimenting with different drugs
including weed I do see now that some of
that had to do with my hip pain I didn’t
know where the pain was coming from so I
was just in a lot of pain and very
depressed all the time and not really
sure why during an appearance on Elvis
Duran and the morning show
Gaga admitted that she’d previously been
smoking up to 20 joints a day and quote
living on a totally other psychedelic
plane and I was smoking up to 15 to 20
marijuana cigarettes a day with no
tobacco that’s a lot yeah and I was I
was living on a totally other
psychedelic plane numbing myself
completely she later told Zane Lowe that
the best bit of advice Elton John ever
gave her was to get sober that’s the
best bit of advice Alton ever gave you
to get sober yeah
good advice yeah yeah he’s a smart one
number six Simon Pegg just as Simon Pegg
was transitioning from low-budget
English films to mega blockbusters who
was sinking deeper into depression and
alcoholism even landing the parts of
Scotty in Star Trek and Benji and
Mission Impossible opposite Tom Cruise
couldn’t make him happy did you recover
anything yes yes
despite the aforementioned conditions of
the hard drive you brought back I
managed to recover portions of two dozen
email files also made what I believe to
be a thoroughly promotion worthy
breakthrough he’s shocked even himself
when the birth of his daughter didn’t
break his mood however for a long time
he kept it a secret
including from his best friend Nick
Frost you need to eat before you go
you need to pace yourself and you need
to drink slowly
then if you do eat fast you go you know
but that’s all behind me now fortunately
he later attended a a at the behest of
his wife and later created the character
of Gary King in the world’s end to
exorcise his alcoholic demons number 5
Jane Lynch
surprisingly Jane Lynch best known for
her role in wholesome comedy-drama Glee
has a long history of substance abuse
every time you packed renow me
I will take it back leave me alone in
her memoir happy accidents
Lynch writes that she was a frequent
drinker throughout her 20s and early 30s
fearing that she was growing dependent
on alcohol Lynch quit drinking when she
was 31 but took to downing bottles of
nyquil on a nightly basis to fall into
deep sleeps and happy oblivion later
while in New York for a role in a play
about the Brady Bunch
she quote smoked herself into oblivion
which proved to be the final straw
she finally sought help and managed to
kick the habit ending up in a much
better place oh yeah you see how absurd
how far your addiction takes you know
how you you justify you know all that
wasn’t drinking it wasn’t the crack was
just you know it was a bad night mercury
was in retrograde wasn’t the crystal
meth number four Kristin Davis Kristin
Davis played the cosmopolitan guzzling
Charlotte in Sex in the City which must
have been difficult for the actress
seeing as how she still considers
herself a recovering alcoholic my hair
hurts Davis began drinking when she was
a teenager to overcome her shyness and
fit in at school then the occasional
drink developed into full-blown
alcoholism this continued throughout
high school and into acting school where
she often showed up hungover and tired
due to over drinking the night before
realizing that her prospects would
plummet if she drank herself into
expulsion or failure she entered rehab
and has now been sober for over thirty
years I’m really not interested one
drink I leave my blondie here one number
three Chrissy Teigen it’s a mom mom in
Chrissy Teigan zone words she quote
can’t have just one drink which is a
pretty relatable admission like Ed
Sheeran the fast-paced lifestyle of
showbiz has seemingly affected Tegan
who’s opened up about overindulging a
boozy brunches and award shows sorry to
bother you my queen m’lady
in her opinion her drinking would often
get out of hand and embarrass both
herself and husband John Legend I am mad
at me
I don’t know when Teigen realized that
she was going overboard she decided to
slow it down
especially given a family history of
debilitating alcohol addiction she
wanted to fix herself for both herself
and her family and we wish her all the
best she was telling herself and telling
us as friends and family that she wanted
to drink less and be more in control of
that and she’s already been doing it
number two Adele will never get another
Adele album as good as 21 at least
according to Adele herself and
perversely alcohol plays a key role when
Adele was young she was abandoned by her
alcoholic father and suffered numerous
heartbreaks
which led to frequent drinking when she
tasted success she drank to alleviate
the pressures of Fame
leading to forgotten lines and stumbles
onstage she also admits that she was
quote completely off her face while
writing 21 which contributed to the
honesty of the album it was a lifestyle
that couldn’t last forever though and
she decided to tone it down after giving
birth to her son Angelo before we unveil
our top pick here are a few honorable
number one Jamie Lee Curtis Jamie Lee
Curtis has been one of the coolest most
outspoken and reputable actors in
Hollywood for 40 years so it’s
surprising to hear that she was a victim
of opioid addiction grateful for my life
the luckiest girl in the world after
undergoing minor plastic surgery in 1989
Curtis was prescribed painkillers and
subsequently faced a decade-long
struggle at the same time she began to
drink heavily to numb herself from the
fear of growing old in 1998 however her
sister found out and Curtis told her
husband attended her first recovery
meeting and has remained sober ever
since she now considers her recovery her
greatest personal achievement all the
different projects you’ve done which one
changed you the most it wasn’t work it
wasn’t work so what was it I got sober
how hard was that that was the hardest
thing I’ve ever done in my life do you
agree with our pigs check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and be
sure to subscribe and ring the bell to
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struggles often take place far from the
cameras welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 celebs you had no idea
battled addiction before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at
now clean celebrities who struggled with
some form of addiction in the past
either before becoming famous or while
keeping it secret from the press number
10 Bradley Cooper – a night we’ll never
remember but the four of us will never
forget while Bradley Cooper’s big
mainstream break was playing Phil in the
hangover he appeared in 46 episodes of
alias between 2001 and 2006 maybe get
fooled bottles of champagne and I’m
gonna tip you like I all did fun and it
almost killed him literally at the time
Cooper was an alcoholic and taking
various drugs and he believes that it
negatively affected his potential I
would never be sitting here with you no
way no chance because because 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 no way when he only received
sporadic and dwindling work on alias he
considered himself a failed actor and
contemplated taking his own life after
realizing that he was ruining his life
Cooper went sober and eventually earned
more consistent and lucrative work
leading him to the a-list he sits atop
today
[Music]
number nine ed Sheeran it’s no secret
that Ed Sheeran enjoys a beer but you
may be surprised to hear that it almost
ruined his life while appearing on the
Jonathan Ross show Sheeran said that he
fell into various pitfalls of Fame one
of them being constant partying and
substance abuse he later told people
that he was downing up to six pints of
beer a night after gradually slipping
deeper into substance abuse he was
helped by his girlfriend and colleagues
and took a year off for music he since
lost 50 pounds due to cutting his beer
intake and no longer drinks to excess
I still do all those things we’re just
not in excess my dad said anything in
moderation
so yeah I just basically needed to leave
it to motivate number 8 Terry Crews
Terry Crews has always been an open book
whether it’s testifying against being a
victim of sexual assault or opening up
about his addiction to pornography I was
a card-carrying member of this toxic
masculinity and it all came through with
me realizing that I didn’t know
everything in a facebook video pre spoke
about his addiction seeing that he spent
entire days watching pornography and
that it severely affected his marriage
my dirty little secret was that I was
addicted to pornography for years now
most of you who are on Facebook are
using the internet and I it’s kind of
crazy because this thing has become a
problem I think it’s a you know a
worldwide problem he managed to keep it
a secret from his family and it wasn’t
until his wife stopped trusting him and
left that Cruz sought help and entered
rehab luckily he was able to repair his
relationship and now openly speaks about
the challenges of masculinity and
addiction you’re successful you feel
like that buys you a pass that it’s her
that it’s them
it’s everyone else but then a small
voice came to me and said baby it’s me
number seven Lady gaga marijuana is
often seen as a relatively harmless
habit but that doesn’t mean it’s a good
thing in excess as Lady Gaga could tell
you to deal with the pressures of Fame
and
pain of a significant hip injury Gaga
began experimenting with different drugs
including weed I do see now that some of
that had to do with my hip pain I didn’t
know where the pain was coming from so I
was just in a lot of pain and very
depressed all the time and not really
sure why during an appearance on Elvis
Duran and the morning show
Gaga admitted that she’d previously been
smoking up to 20 joints a day and quote
living on a totally other psychedelic
plane and I was smoking up to 15 to 20
marijuana cigarettes a day with no
tobacco that’s a lot yeah and I was I
was living on a totally other
psychedelic plane numbing myself
completely she later told Zane Lowe that
the best bit of advice Elton John ever
gave her was to get sober that’s the
best bit of advice Alton ever gave you
to get sober yeah
good advice yeah yeah he’s a smart one
number six Simon Pegg just as Simon Pegg
was transitioning from low-budget
English films to mega blockbusters who
was sinking deeper into depression and
alcoholism even landing the parts of
Scotty in Star Trek and Benji and
Mission Impossible opposite Tom Cruise
couldn’t make him happy did you recover
anything yes yes
despite the aforementioned conditions of
the hard drive you brought back I
managed to recover portions of two dozen
email files also made what I believe to
be a thoroughly promotion worthy
breakthrough he’s shocked even himself
when the birth of his daughter didn’t
break his mood however for a long time
he kept it a secret
including from his best friend Nick
Frost you need to eat before you go
you need to pace yourself and you need
to drink slowly
then if you do eat fast you go you know
but that’s all behind me now fortunately
he later attended a a at the behest of
his wife and later created the character
of Gary King in the world’s end to
exorcise his alcoholic demons number 5
Jane Lynch
surprisingly Jane Lynch best known for
her role in wholesome comedy-drama Glee
has a long history of substance abuse
every time you packed renow me
I will take it back leave me alone in
her memoir happy accidents
Lynch writes that she was a frequent
drinker throughout her 20s and early 30s
fearing that she was growing dependent
on alcohol Lynch quit drinking when she
was 31 but took to downing bottles of
nyquil on a nightly basis to fall into
deep sleeps and happy oblivion later
while in New York for a role in a play
about the Brady Bunch
she quote smoked herself into oblivion
which proved to be the final straw
she finally sought help and managed to
kick the habit ending up in a much
better place oh yeah you see how absurd
how far your addiction takes you know
how you you justify you know all that
wasn’t drinking it wasn’t the crack was
just you know it was a bad night mercury
was in retrograde wasn’t the crystal
meth number four Kristin Davis Kristin
Davis played the cosmopolitan guzzling
Charlotte in Sex in the City which must
have been difficult for the actress
seeing as how she still considers
herself a recovering alcoholic my hair
hurts Davis began drinking when she was
a teenager to overcome her shyness and
fit in at school then the occasional
drink developed into full-blown
alcoholism this continued throughout
high school and into acting school where
she often showed up hungover and tired
due to over drinking the night before
realizing that her prospects would
plummet if she drank herself into
expulsion or failure she entered rehab
and has now been sober for over thirty
years I’m really not interested one
drink I leave my blondie here one number
three Chrissy Teigen it’s a mom mom in
Chrissy Teigan zone words she quote
can’t have just one drink which is a
pretty relatable admission like Ed
Sheeran the fast-paced lifestyle of
showbiz has seemingly affected Tegan
who’s opened up about overindulging a
boozy brunches and award shows sorry to
bother you my queen m’lady
in her opinion her drinking would often
get out of hand and embarrass both
herself and husband John Legend I am mad
at me
I don’t know when Teigen realized that
she was going overboard she decided to
slow it down
especially given a family history of
debilitating alcohol addiction she
wanted to fix herself for both herself
and her family and we wish her all the
best she was telling herself and telling
us as friends and family that she wanted
to drink less and be more in control of
that and she’s already been doing it
number two Adele will never get another
Adele album as good as 21 at least
according to Adele herself and
perversely alcohol plays a key role when
Adele was young she was abandoned by her
alcoholic father and suffered numerous
heartbreaks
which led to frequent drinking when she
tasted success she drank to alleviate
the pressures of Fame
leading to forgotten lines and stumbles
onstage she also admits that she was
quote completely off her face while
writing 21 which contributed to the
honesty of the album it was a lifestyle
that couldn’t last forever though and
she decided to tone it down after giving
birth to her son Angelo before we unveil
our top pick here are a few honorable
number one Jamie Lee Curtis Jamie Lee
Curtis has been one of the coolest most
outspoken and reputable actors in
Hollywood for 40 years so it’s
surprising to hear that she was a victim
of opioid addiction grateful for my life
the luckiest girl in the world after
undergoing minor plastic surgery in 1989
Curtis was prescribed painkillers and
subsequently faced a decade-long
struggle at the same time she began to
drink heavily to numb herself from the
fear of growing old in 1998 however her
sister found out and Curtis told her
husband attended her first recovery
meeting and has remained sober ever
since she now considers her recovery her
greatest personal achievement all the
different projects you’ve done which one
changed you the most it wasn’t work it
wasn’t work so what was it I got sober
how hard was that that was the hardest
thing I’ve ever done in my life do you
agree with our pigs check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and be
sure to subscribe and ring the bell to
be notified about our latest videos [Music]
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