Brad Pitt(01 of20)
Open Image Modal"For a long time I thought I did too much damage -- drug damage. I was a bit of a drifter. A guy who felt he grew up in something of a vacuum and wanted to see things, wanted to be inspired ... I spent years f--king off. But then I got burnt out and felt that I was wasting my opportunity."[Esquire, 2013] (credit:Getty)
Joel Madden(02 of20)
Open Image Modal“Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a daily basis.”[Blender, 2007] (credit:Getty Images)
Shawn Pyfrom(03 of20)
Open Image Modal"I am an alcoholic and a drug addict ... I'm relatively new to being sober, considering the scope of time that I’ve been an addict, but within that scope, this is also the longest I’ve been sober; since iI began using."[Tumblr, 2014] (credit:Getty)
Eminem(04 of20)
Open Image Modal“The things I was putting in my body, my tolerance got so high. I got to the point where I couldn’t even count how many pills I was taking... I had overdosed in 2007, like right around Christmas in 2007… Pretty much almost died... I scared myself, like, ‘Yo! I need to, I need help. Like I can’t beat this on my own. I think that was my biggest problem… I mean, I’m sure that anybody with addiction—the biggest problem is admitting that you have a problem. Nobody wants to admit that they’re not in control of something.”[Access Hollywood, 2010] (credit:Getty)
Robert Downey Jr.(05 of20)
Open Image Modal"All those years of snorting coke, and then I accidentally get involved in heroin after smoking crack for the first time. It finally tied my shoelaces together... Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention."[Rolling Stone, 2010] (credit:Getty)
Anthony Kiedis(06 of20)
Open Image Modal"I spent most of my life looking for the quick fix and the deep kick. I shot drugs under freeway off-ramps with Mexican gangbangers and in thousand-dollar-a-day hotel suites. Now I sip vitamin-infused water and seek out wild, as opposed to farm-raised, salmon."["Scar Tissue," published 2005] (credit:Getty Images)
Drew Barrymore(07 of20)
Open Image Modal"When I was 10 ½, I was sitting in a room with a group of young adults who were smoking pot. I wanted to try some, and they said, 'Sure. Isn't it cute, a little girl getting stoned?' Eventually that got boring, and my addict mind told me, 'Well, if smoking pot is cute, it'll also be cute to get the heavier stuff like cocaine.' It was gradual. What I did kept getting worse and worse, and I didn't care what anybody else thought."[People, 1989] (credit:Getty Images)
Nicole Richie(08 of20)
Open Image Modal"I kind of took matters into my own hands and was creating drama in a very dangerous way. I think I was just bored, and I had seen everything. Especially when you're young, you just want more. ... At 18 I had just been doing a lot of cocaine."[People, 2007] (credit:Getty Images)
Elton John(09 of20)
Open Image Modal"I was consumed by cocaine, booze and who knows what else. I apparently never got the memo that the Me generation had ended."["Love Is the Cure: On Life, Loss and the End of AIDS," published 2012] (credit:jpistudios.com)
Dennis Quaid(10 of20)
Open Image Modal“Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised. It was petty cash, you know? It was supplied, basically, on movie sets because everyone was doing it. People would make deals. Instead of having a cocktail, you’d have a line."[Newsweek, 2011] (credit:jpistudios.com)
Fergie(11 of20)
Open Image Modal“I got into a scene. I started going out and taking ecstasy. From ecstasy, it went to crystal meth. With any drugs, everything is great at the beginning, and then slowly your life starts to spiral down. [I was] 90 pounds at one point.”["Oprah's Next Chapter," 2012] (credit:jpistudios.com)
Aaron Sorkin(12 of20)
Open Image Modal"I had what they call a 'high bottom, my life didn't fall apart before I got into rehab. I didn't lose my job or run over a kid or injure anyone when I was high. But the hardest thing I do every day is not take cocaine. You don't get cured of addiction -- you're just in remission."[W Magazine, 2010] (credit:Getty)
Maureen McCormick(13 of20)
Open Image Modal"I hit rock bottom when I was doing “The Brady Brides.” I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet. My agent had to go to the sixth floor, climb into my place, tear off my clothes and get me in the shower. He said, “You have to get to Paramount right now, and you have a problem.” I couldn’t hide anymore. Everyone knew -- the producers knew, everyone at Paramount knew, the guys testing to play my husband knew. It was the first time I had to face that I really had a problem."["Today," 2008] (credit:Getty)
Paula Abdul(14 of20)
Open Image Modal"Withdrawal -- it’s the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain. It was excruciating. At my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been.” [Us Weekly, 2010] (credit:Getty)
Matthew Perry(15 of20)
Open Image Modal"I was so hooked on opiates [at that point] that I couldn't even leave my bedroom."[Press Conference, 2013] (credit:Getty)
Angelina Jolie(16 of20)
Open Image Modal"I went through heavy, darker times and I survived them. I didn't die young, so I'm very lucky. There are other artists and people who didn't survive certain things ... I think people can imagine that I did the most dangerous and I did the worst-and for many reasons I shouldn't be here."["60 Minutes," 2011] (credit:Getty)
Wendy Williams(17 of20)
Open Image Modal"It's been almost 15 years since I smoked last from a crack pipe. It's been almost 15 years since I waited on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx for my drugs."["Wendy Williams Show," 2012] (credit:Getty)
Kirstie Alley(18 of20)
Open Image Modal"There was about a year’s span that I did cocaine that I was doing it -- you could say -- more occasionally, on the weekend. Then my weekend became a three-day weekend, then it became four, then it became five. I would do so much at a time that I would snort the coke and then I would sit there, I would take my pulse [thinking]: ‘I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m dying.’"["Howard Stern," 2013] (credit:Getty)
Steven Tyler(19 of20)
Open Image Modal"I lost everything. It's serious. It's serious when you lose your kids, your children, your wife, your band, your job and you'll never understand why because you're an addict. You can't figure that out."["Dr. Oz," 2013] (credit:Getty)
Demi Lovato(20 of20)
Open Image Modal“People don’t take it as seriously as it really is, it’s a mental illness and it’s a disease …There’s no pill that’s gonna change it …People need to have compassion for it …Being a former addict looking at it as I had a choice, because at some point in my disease I didn’t, I physically and emotionally couldn’t live without it, that was my medicine to my pain.”["Extra," 2014] (credit:Getty)