Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne got serious about his sobriety from drugs and alcohol after his 2013 relapse. "It’s a rock and roll thing — you rock and you roll. You take the good with the bad. When I was a crazy fucker, I’m lucky she didn’t walk out. Now I’m coming on five years clean and sober, and I’ve realized what a fucking idiot I was."
Brad Pitt
After a very heated argument with his then wife, Brad Pitt had enough. He said, “I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges.” This was the beginning of his time in Alcoholics Anonymous. Pitt said of AA, “You had all these men sitting around being open and honest in a way I have never heard. It was this safe space where there was little judgment, and therefore little judgment of yourself.”
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox turned to alcohol as a coping mechanism after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s. "I used to drink to party, but then I was drinking alone… every day. It was about a year of a knife fight in a closet, where I just didn't have my tools to deal with it. But then after that, I went to therapy, and it all started to get really clear to me."
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy found himself in rehab in the late '80s. He admitted that he became an alcoholic while working on Star Trek. "The minute we finished the last shot I would have a drink. Then it became a series of drinks, little by little. Before I knew it, I was drinking more and more because my addictive personality was taking over."
Stephen King
Stephen King was addicted to alcohol when his family staged an intervention in the late '80s. He recalls, “the thing that I remember is being at one of my son's Little League games with a can of beer in a paper bag, and the coach coming over to me and saying, 'If that's an alcoholic beverage, you're going to have to leave. That was where I said to myself, 'That's something I'll never be able to tell anybody else. I'll keep that one to myself.' I drew on that memory."
