Glamor, fame, and media attention comes with the high pressure and stress many give in to this stress and many rise above it. We all know that fame in Hollywood industry come with a high price of stress and pressure; many lose themselves to drugs, alcohol, and take a nosedive in their careers and fight back to get the fame back. There are many celebrities who lost their way in the addiction to drug abuse and heavy drinking habits.
Here are few celebrities who had their fall.
Robert Downey Jr.
The loved character Tony Stark had his fall at the very young age. With escaping from rehabs twice to many high profile arrest in 1990’s to 36 months in jail his past gets as shady as it could. His abuse of alcohol, cocaine, heroin lead him straight to the California prison and state run rehab.
After the receiving an ultimatum from his wife he began his path to sobriety with series of yoga, 12-steo meetings and therapy he changed his track of downward spiral to sky rocket an incredible comeback.
Robert Downey Jr. is the epic and incredible example of an comeback from abyss of hell.
Demi Lovato
Though Lovato has been open about her addiction to cocaine from a very young age, her addiction to it all began at the age of 17. Things went bad quick as she even smuggled cocaine and vodka bottles to a flight out of fear of flying sober.
She took rehab twice. At 18 she took her first trip to rehab but didn’t had any effect on her addiction to cocaine. Even so she didn’t stop her fight with this addiction as she still worked her way to get sobriety.
March 2018 she celebrated 6 years of sobriety which was broken in July as she was hospitalized for several days as she suffered from an overdose. But that didn’t stop her from making her return to the public o1.5 years later; performing at 2020 Grammys.
Steven Tyler
The “Demon of Screamin” Tyler took 4 attempts to get a significant amount of sobriety that he has today after the relapse of 2006.
The years of drug abuse and hard heavy drinking took a huge troll on his body. The abuse of drugs started at a very young age, which lead him to get expelled from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers.
Eventually, the bandmates gave him the choice to either go to a rehab or leave the band. Between 1980 to 2010 he made various attempts for sobriety from rehabs to 12-steps meeting and whatnot. He completed his 12 years of sobriety before the 2006 relapse.
Amanda Bynes
Her nosedive in the career started with the charge of driving under the influnce in 2012, which were later dropped as she received 3-years probation. A year leter she was charged of reckless endagemnt and marijiuama possession after she was caught smoking in the lobby of the apartment buliding.
After series of charges her mental health was at question too as she was hostitalized under 72-hours mental health evaluation hold.
With her behaviour on set once she even wounded up either getting fired or quetting the movie. But now after several treatments and thearpies Byens claims that she is sbore and healthy living with her parents.
Tara Reid
The American Pie actress too a spiral downin her acting career thanks to her drinking issues , which took her to the rehabs a number of time. Perhapes the most destructive phase of her career being caught wasted by paparzzies a number of times as she couldn’t even barely tlak or walk.
2008 Tara decided to shed away her hard party girl image and decided to check herself in the rehab. However, the sobriety that she was so adamant about didn’t last long.\
2013 she was caught by TMZ highly intoxicated leaving a club. 2016 she stood drinking at an airport bar while the flight took off without her. Even so, she didn’t give up her fight to overcome her demons as she took a bold step to do sharknoda putting everything at risk in order to revive her career wich did manage to help her bounce back into the game.
Ben Affleck
The drop of Batman was the cause of his struggles with the alcohol. As Ben’s relatively drinking got out of control measures had to be taken. As he was very open with his struggles with alcoholism and how he fought back by denying the he had issues that needed attention, he even tried to mask his martial troubles by drinking but it got out of hand.
His path of sobriety began in the 1990’s after a few years od sobriety the cycle of heavy drinking began again, he took several treatemnet from 2001 to 2017.
He is still adamant to get on the road to sobriety , he most recently went to rehab in 2018.
