Celebrities With Drug Addictions

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman, an Academy Award winner for his role in the 2005 film “Capote,” Truman Capote was a movie and stage actor. He starred in films such as “Doubt” and “Charlie Wilson’s War,” both of which received Oscar nominations. He was almost done filming the final part of the “Hunger Games” series when he died.

Hoffman claimed in a 2006 interview with “60 Minutes” that he had attended rehab at the age of 22 and had achieved sobriety. “You get panicked,” he explained. “It made him wonder if he would ever be able to do the things he wanted to do with his life. he further stated that he was placing himself self in perilous circumstances and predicaments.

Hoffman, who died in February 2014 at the age of 46, spent his entire life battling addiction. His primary cause of death was intoxication due to a combination of drugs.

Russell Brand

Russell Brand, an English actor, and comedian is frank about his prior drug usage. His drug use is regularly discussed as part of his stand-up act, in addition to his promiscuity and sex addiction.

After having left his mother’s home at the age of 16, he started using narcotics. Brand characterized his first heroin trip as “blissful.”

I can’t communicate to you how effective heroin is at numbing pain. Brand told The Guardian that it turns a tight, white fist into a soothing, brown wave.  He tweeted in December 2014 that he had been sober and clean for 12 years.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Robert Downey, Jr., the young idol turned “Iron Man” fame, has battled heroin and drugs in the public eye. Between 1996 and 2001, the star has been in and out of jail for numerous drug offenses after being exposed to narcotics by his father when he was just eight years old.

Downey told Rolling Stone that after all those years of snorting coke, he accidentally got entangled in heroin after smoking pot for the first time. It finally connected the shoelaces. When you smoke dope or cocaine, you become powerless and Intervention is the only way out of that dismal situation

Downey entered recovery in 2003, putting a stop to his years-long addiction.

Corey Feldman

Corey Feldman, one half of “The Two Coreys,” a name given to him and cast member Corey Haim during their rise to fame in the 1980s, battled narcotics in front of a large audience. The actor revealed sexual molestation by a family friend in his 2013 book “Coreyography.” Feldman was exposed to drugs by the same man who sexually assaulted him.

Feldman struggled with substance misuse for years after his debut. He was convicted for possession of heroin in 1990. His addiction rapidly worsened as a result of the abuse.

In 2013, Feldman told The Huffington Post that there was a time when he truly took the plunge after he went off the coke after he already had a period with crack. Then this “other” girl dumped him, and the man who introduced him to every drug he’d ever done, the pedophile, said, ‘Hey, why don’t you try heroin?'”

Carrie Fisher

Princess Leia was Carrie Fisher’s most famous role in the “Star Wars” saga. Fisher struggled with heroin addiction for a long time. Fisher later admitted that she began self-medicating with substances, including heroin, to calm the manic aspect of her despair. She told Psychology Today, “Drugs made me feel more normal.” “They kept me in check.”

Fisher described her drug use, particularly heroin experimentation, in a 2016 Q&A conversation with Rolling Stone. “Are there any drugs you wish you’d never tried?” questioned Rolling Stone. “The stronger of the opiate class,” the actress replied. She further said that it was heroin that made her snort and that she has never gone all out, which is exactly what one would do when if one were attempting suicide.

The actress died of a heart attack at the age of 60 in December 2016. The following day, her mom, actress Debbie Reynolds, died.

Courtney Love

Courtney Love, an actress, and singer say her heroin usage got serious after she attended an event at Charlie Sheen’s residence at the encouragement of a friend. She further added that Jennifer, who has been sober for 16 years, persuaded her to shoot up at some time. ‘Come on, everyone’s doing it,’ Love said in 2011 on the sobriety site The Fix. So that’s when her whole heroin drama started.

She resigned a few years later and was short of what she pledged to the manager. Courtney later told The Fix that she finally quit in 1996, when she promised Milos Forman [director of ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’] that she would not do drugs while she was shooting that movie

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love’s husband and the lead vocalist of the rock band Nirvana, openly fought with heroin addiction, just like his wife. Cobain addressed his heroin use in an unpublished 1992 message to his fans.

He mentioned that after becoming a vegetarian, trying protein drinks, quitting smoking, exercising, and seeing doctor after doctor, he opted to treat his discomfort with little dosages of heroin for a whopping three weeks. Cobain further said that it worked as a band-aid for a while, but the ache returned, so he stopped. It was a terrible thing to do, and he’ll never do it again. He said that he pity anyone who believes heroine can be used as a medicine because, well, duh, it doesn’t work.

Cobain was unable to quit using heroin, and he succumbed to the injury of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 1994. On the occasion of his death, his autopsy indicated high quantities of heroin in his body systems.