The green serpent can confuse anyone. And when you have so much dough that you can use any amount of your favorite alcoholic drink himself and to roll away friends, it can be almost impossible to slow down. These dozen famous alcoholics managed to pull themselves together despite the temptation to drink incessantly.
Ewan McGregor
The actor admitted that he used to drink monstrously much, but he has only the most rosy memories of that time. “Those were the best days,” the singer recalls. But after forty, McGregor still decided to focus on a career and a more healthy pastime.
Derick Whibley
In April 2014, the vocalist of Sum 41 and ex-husband Avril Lavigne was taken to the hospital in a state of extreme intoxication. The musician was unconscious, his liver and kidneys were overloaded from the amount of alcohol he had drunk and were on the verge of failure. Now the singer has almost returned to normal, but now he is learning to walk again as a result of almost complete muscle exhaustion.
Daniel Radcliffe
When the star of "Harry Potter" turned 18, his life went downhill. He drank every day, showed up drunk on set, locked himself at home and drank again. He quit in 2010, when he realized what he had become and what it threatened him with. The actor admitted that he mostly drank because of the fear of turning from the star of a multi-billion dollar franchise into an inconspicuous item on the next "Where are these child actors now" list.
Shia LaBeouf
In June 2014, the actor was arrested for violating public order right in the Broadway theater during the musical "Cabaret", where he prevented the audience from enjoying the performance with his hooligan behavior. When the drunken LaBeouf was taken out of the hall in handcuffs, he broke free and shouted: “Do you even fucking know who I am??”. In the police station, the actor also did not lose his head and spat in the face of the servant of the law. As a result, he was sentenced to six months of mandatory treatment in a rehabilitation center.
Zac Efron
Maybe, slim figure the young actor owes not so much exercise, how much of his cocaine addiction, for which he was treated twice in a rehabilitation center. Efron got rid of his addiction to cocaine, but he acquired a love for alcohol and, according to rumors, is still abusing.
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson's career is rich in scandals - for a long time in the press he was called exclusively by affectionate epithets, like a racist psychopath. For example, one day in the middle of the night he called his girlfriend, scolded her for her frank style of dress and said that she deserved to be raped by a "pack of blacks." And in 2006, he was pulled over for drunk driving, for which he showered police officers with anti-Semitic remarks. Later, the actor publicly apologized and admitted that his behavior is the result of a lifelong struggle with alcoholism.
Johnny Depp
In March 2015, hundreds of workers from the set of Pirates 5 caribbean"Were forced to stop work because the star of the project, Johnny Depp, injured his hand. How did it happen? He snapped after a long period of sobriety, got drunk with friends, and punched through a glass door during an argument with his wife on the phone. Depp has previously been treated for alcoholism, but it does not seem to have helped him much.
Adele
The heartache that allowed the girl to write heartbreaking songs and make her a superstar also led her to severe depression and alcohol addiction. “Once, before a performance, I got so drunk that I forgot the words to my own songs ... It was terrible,” the singer admitted.
Ben Affleck
According to the actor himself, alcoholism has always been a problem in his family. For a decade, the actor unsuccessfully struggled with addiction on his own, but in 2001 he still gave up and went to the clinic. The treatment was successful, and Affleck remained sober for another ten years, but something seems to have gone wrong - the actor's wife, Jennifer Garner, recently filed for divorce, saying that Affleck was up to his old ways again.
Robert Downey Jr
Now Downey is the highest paid actor in Hollywood and the star of the most popular blockbusters. But there was a time when, because of his problems with alcohol, no one wanted to hire an actor. His alcoholism was so severe that one day in 1996, Downey's neighbor called the police after finding him drunk and passed out in her 11-year-old daughter's bedroom.
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin joined Alcoholics Anonymous when he was 26. The actor is now 57 and has been a total teetotaler for over 30 years. He admits that there were two highlights in his life that made him realize the problem: the first was in 1983, when he was driving on the highway and drinking wine from a glass while driving. He then looked around and realized that in neighboring cars people from the same cups drink not alcohol at all, but coffee or soda. On another occasion, he caught a judging look from the owner of the arcade where the actor spent most of his nights.
Matthew Perry
Although his addiction was really heavily influenced by the frenzied fame that brought him the series "Friends", the actor says that he was an alcoholic even before it started. “I never came to work stoned - I came with a terrible hangover,” Perry admitted. According to him, everyone around him knew about his addiction, although he tried to hide it as best he could. The actor admitted that fame also helped him cope with addiction - they simply stopped pouring him in bars, arguing harshly: “I just read that you can’t drink.”
Rolling Stone published a large text about the problems of actor Johnny Depp. The author spent three days in the artist's mansion, used illegal substances with him, studied mountains of financial documents for a long time and as a result wrote a gloomy story about a lost person with many new details. Medialeaks talks about the main thing.
In what context did the interview take place?
At the same time, Johnny Depp, as follows from the interview, really likes to overspend. For example, he scattered the ashes of writer Hunter Thompson with a rocket. Depp and Thompson were close friends, Johnny starred in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on Thompson's novel, and then in the biopic The Rum Diary. TMG, in its lawsuit, claims that Depp spent $3 million (about 188 million rubles - approx. ed.) To launch a rocket with Thompson's ashes into the sky and make a firework out of it. In an interview, the actor refutes this: he says that he spent $ 5 million (about 314 million rubles - ed.).
The same story with spending on wine.
The amount of 30 thousand dollars a month indicated by them (about 1 million 800 thousand rubles - ed.) is simply offensive. I spent much, much more!
The TMG side believes that Depp's spending is mental disorder and should be examined by a psychiatrist.
Steven Rodrik himself believes that Johnny Depp really lives in an illusory world, he does not understand how finances work. Lawyer Adam Walden convinced the actor that they were "fighting a Hollywood monster", although in reality they were just trying to sue the part mediocrely lost money. Whether TMG is to blame for the fact that Johnny Depp is all in debt and almost bankrupt, or the accusations against the company are groundless - Rodrik cannot answer this question.
After the story with Amber Heard and the painful divorce, Johnny Depp began to rapidly lose popularity. Few were happy that he would appear in the Fantastic Beasts sequel, and when his character in the movie Murder on the Orient Express died,.
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Many of us would like to be there famous people because their life seems so carefree, wonderful, positive, successful. But, as experience shows, not everything is as smooth as it seems, and sometimes even stars in life have solid negatives. As a result, many of them find the solution to their problems in a bottle, and sometimes in drugs. And even being rich and famous, recovering from alcoholism is quite difficult, and sometimes impossible.
In today's selection were those celebrities who managed to get rid of alcoholism, as well as those who are still struggling with this bad habit. So, 12 famous Hollywood alcoholics.
1. Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck is one of the most famous alcoholics in Hollywood. According to the actor, he inherited the addiction from his father, who fell so low that he turned into a bum. Ben himself had to undergo a long course of treatment, during which he repeatedly broke down. He recently announced that he had finally completed a 16-year rehab and hoped that he would never return to addiction.
2. Johnny Depp
Another famous Hollywood alcoholic is Johnny Depp. For a long time, Johnny and alcohol connected very tender feelings. He even dreamed that after his death he was put in a barrel of whiskey.
“I researched liquor in depth, and they obviously researched me as well, and we found out that we get along great…”
But in the end, after a series of ridiculous drunken antics, he realized that it was time to quit and turned to the doctors for help. Whether he managed to finally get rid of addiction to alcohol is unknown.
3. Demi Moore
Demi Moore has had problems with alcohol and illegal drugs more than once. Perhaps the celebrity inherited this addiction from her mother, a chronic alcoholic. Unfortunately on Demi family tradition did not end, her youngest daughter Tallulah, by the age of 22, had already managed to visit a rehabilitation clinic.
4. Robert Downey Jr.
One of the famous Hollywood alcoholics almost ruined his career due to alcohol and drugs. At one time, Robert drank so heavily that almost all film studios terminated contracts with him. Once, drunk, he climbed into a neighbor's house and decided to sleep there for a while. His sweet dream was interrupted by the police, who were called by the mistress of the house, who found the sleeping man in her daughter's baby bed.
5. Daniel Radcliffe
"Harry Potter" made friends with the green snake at the age of 18. A new "friend" helped Daniel get rid of the depression that had seized him after filming in "Potterian". The actor admitted that, having drunk, he turned into a completely different person:
“I can’t tell which person it was - I don’t remember, but it was like chaos”
6. Mel Gibson
The Hollywood celebrity started drinking at the age of 13. Almost all of his conscious life is an ongoing struggle with alcohol addiction. Once, when the addiction once again got the better of him, Gibson even tried to commit suicide.
Due to a string of drunken antics and racist remarks, no one in Hollywood wanted to associate with him for a long time. One night, Gibson called his girlfriend and, interspersing his speech with obscene language, wished that she would be raped by a "gang of blacks." In 2006, he swore and insulted two police officers who arrested him for drunk driving.
7. Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan occupies an honorable place in the list of famous Hollywood alcoholics. At 17, Lohan had everything one could dream of: fame, money, stunning looks and an interesting job. And all this she lost due to the fact that she was addicted to alcohol. At the age of 30, Lohan turned into a real ruin and, moreover, morally sank. For example, while relaxing in one of the nightclubs in Moscow, she tried to accuse one of the visitors of stealing her phone. And this is for the sake of not paying the bill!
8. Shia LaBeouf
The star of "Transformers" got acquainted with drugs and alcohol very early. Already at the age of 11, he smoked his first cigarette with marijuana, which was handed to him by his own father. By his own admission, the actor, alcohol ruined his life. His hooligan antics repeatedly shocked the public. So, in 2014, the actor was arrested for inappropriate behavior at the Studio 54 club on Broadway. During the performance, the drunk Shaya smoked, yelled and even insulted the actors and the audience. As the police escorted him out of the hall, an enraged LaBeouf yelled: “Do you even know who I am!?”
In 2015, Shia went to rehab and, according to him, has not been drinking since.
9. Eva Mendes
Few people know that the beautiful Cuban suffered from alcohol addiction for a long time. It's hard to believe, but Eva is also on the list of famous Hollywood alcoholics. With the help of alcohol, she tried to get rid of stress due to overload at work. In 2008, Mendes went to a rehabilitation clinic, and when she got out, she decided to never drink again. And now her motto is “Not a drop of alcohol!”
10. Colin Farrell
For more than 10 years, Colin Farrell has been a staunch teetotaler. But it was not always so: “When I asked for help in 2005, the doctor asked me to list everything that I consumed in a week. My list was: three bottles of whiskey, twelve bottles of red wine, 60 pints of beer…”
For 15 years, Farrell almost did not dry out, and when he began treatment, he needed to learn how to communicate again: over the years of drinking, he forgot how to talk to people without alcohol doping.
11. Anthony Hopkins
By nature, Hopkins is a reserved and reserved person. He began to drink alcohol to feel more relaxed on stage. As a result, the actor drank to such a state that one morning he woke up in an unfamiliar state, not remembering how he got here. At that moment, he realized that it was time to quit and joined Alcoholics Anonymous.
12. Kate Moss
The condition of the 43-year-old top model raises serious concerns: too often the paparazzi catch her drunk. Kate has been treated for alcoholism and drug addiction by the best doctors for a long time, but it seems that the final point in her fight against bad habits has not been set. In September 2016, due to disagreements with her husband, she did not leave the binge for a whole month, starting the day with champagne and ending with his whiskey. And in February 2017, journalists managed to photograph the drunken Moss at one of the parties, where she looked terrible.
American actor Johnny Depp, in an interview with Rolling Stone, spoke about a deep crisis in his career, personal and family life. He also admitted that he cheats during filming, does not learn the role and would like to re-shoot Titanic in his bathroom.
Johnny Depp gave an extremely frank interview to Rolling Stone journalist Stephen Rodrik. From the text it becomes clear why the actor has not been the best lately. The actor leads a nocturnal lifestyle: he goes to bed at dawn and gets up at sunset. He smokes and drinks a lot. And he's in serious trouble.
About problems with loved ones
Not so long ago, the divorce proceedings with Amberd Heard ended, which cost Depp seven million dollars. Amber Heard told the press that Depp beat her. However, in the end, the former spouses resolved the issue of assault amicably and with compensation, which the actress promised to spend on charity.
Photo source: RIA Novosti / Ekaterina Chesnokova Marriage cost Depp good relations with many relatives who discouraged him from marrying Heard. Asked as a last resort at least to conclude a strict marriage contract. He wasn't there either. As a result, Depp practically does not communicate with his sister Christy. The woman was the most radical of all in relation to the last passion of the artist. In addition, she took care of her brother's running costs.
Johnny Depp has lost a few friends lately. Most died from drug overdose. With one of them, musician Tom Petty, they constantly called each other and asked each other if they still smoke or not. The answer has always been positive.
Depp smokes not only cigarettes. To cope with the financial and emotional trials that have befallen him, the actor drinks vodka and writes memoirs. “I kept trying to figure out what I did to deserve all this. I tried to be kind to everyone, helped everyone, tried to be honest,” Depp admitted. “Honesty is the most important thing for me.”
About bankruptcy
Johnny Depp is bankrupt. Yes, he is still one of the highest paid employees in Hollywood, but his wallet has been noticeably depleted by years of disorderly spending: the actor loves expensive wine, drugs and hires great amount attorneys who decide for him the issues of offenses. Plus, unsuccessful investments, as well as not entirely honest relatives and managers - and that's a big hole in the movie star's budget.
Now the closest person to the artist is his lawyer Adam Voldman, who helps to cope with financial difficulties. In parallel, the lawyer deals with the affairs of Oleg Deripaska.
It was Voldman who initiated the interview - he wanted to justify the ward in the eyes of the world. The lawyer has been working with Depp since 2016. Since his arrival, the actor has been litigating with TMG, a company that represented the financial interests of the star. But because of the mistakes of management, Depp did not become richer.
The actor and his lawyer insist that the company was scamming Depp's money behind his back. TMG claims that the artist himself spent the fees left and right. The organization has documents signed by Depp himself. She also published an approximate list of the actor's expenses, which included: $ 75 million for real estate, three million for the opportunity to shoot the ashes of the famous American writer Hunter Thompson into the sky. For seven thousand dollars, Depp bought his daughter a sofa from the filming of the reality show “Keeping up with the Kardashians”. Owns approximately 70 guitars and 200 pieces of art, including works by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Depp's fleet consists of 45 luxury cars. He spends about $200,000 a month on private jet flights.
Adam Voldman speaks of all the proceedings with the management of the star as a battle with the Hollywood machine: many are afraid to compete with it, but Depp is not. The journalist did not have such an opinion: Depp did not seem deceived to him. "I'm sad to hear that I spend 30 thousand dollars on wine, because I spend much more," said the actor.
Yes, and the launch of the ashes of Thompson, according to him, cost not three, but five million. Depp was personally acquainted with the founder of gonzo journalism. He played a writer in the film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Photo source: Still from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas About Pirates of the Caribbean
For all his eccentricity and, as the journalist notes, cunning, Johnny Depp is capable of absolutely disinterested and kind deeds. While filming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Penelope Cruz found out she was pregnant. The actress was afraid that she would be removed from the project because of this. Depp came to her defense and won.
But what the movie star failed to cope with was the text of his roles. He doesn't teach them at all. The actor says that his characters belong more to silent cinema - they supposedly have everything in their eyes, and no one needs words.
Often there is no need for complex storylines. Depp has repeatedly argued with Disney about Jack Sparrow. The authors wanted to add psychological shades to it. Depp insisted that this was unnecessary, because there is not a single person in the world who would like to see a sad Jack Sparrow.
About plans
Depp shared his plans with the journalist. As soon as he deals with numerous lawsuits, he will film a French book about how a man loses everything and ends up in a nursing home at the age of 40. And there, not far from re-shooting "Titanic" in your bathroom.
This autumn, three films with the participation of the actor will be released at once: Richard Says Goodbye, City of Lies and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Johnny Depp, 55, invited journalist Stephen Rodrik to his London mansion to talk about financial turmoil, lawsuits and personal problems. The interview lasted 72 hours with breaks - and it took another two months and 200 letters to arrange a meeting. The interview was initiated by Adam Waldman, the actor's lawyer. In 2017, Johnny Depp sued The Management Group (TMG), which had been handling his financial affairs since 1999. Depp is sure that TMG management ripped him off and squandered his money on his own needs. Also, according to the suit, the company did not provide expense reports, forged Depp's signatures or showed him only the last pages of contracts.
- I didn’t want to worry about what was written there at all, because I trusted these people.
Now Depp is practically bankrupt: there is practically nothing left of the $ 650 million that the actor earned during his career.
“I was at the bottom and poured myself vodka from the very morning”
TMG filed a counterclaim: brothers Joel and Robert Mendel, company executives, deny the allegations and say that Depp spent $ 2 million a month on everything. The actor has 14 $75 million residences, 45 luxury cars, 70 guitars, and 200 pieces of art… Depp spent $200,000 a month on private flights, $1.2 million a year on a personal doctor, and almost two million a year on 24-hour security. .
About seven million more Depp spent on his sister Christie. She paid her brother's money for her rent, her mortgage, and her daughter's wedding. "He's my brother. My money is his money. His money is mine,” Christie comments succinctly.
However, Depp does not hide his extravagance ...
“The fact that I spent $30,000 on wine sounds insulting,” Depp says. “Because I actually spent a lot more.
Depp says that TMG's lawyers were also wrong about his friend, journalist and writer Hunter S. Thompson, whose ashes the actor shot into the sky: "The shot cost not three million dollars, as they say, but five."
The divorce that turned into a global scandal
Along with the financial turmoil, Depp began to have serious personal problems. In 2016, his mother, Betty Sue, whom the actor idolized, died. Despite the fact that beatings were not uncommon in their family: unexpectedly, an ashtray or a telephone receiver could fly at you. “My mother was perhaps the most cruel person I have ever met,” Depp admitted at her funeral. However, the peculiar manner of upbringing did not affect Johnny's love for his mother, and he spent his first fee on a house for her.
A few days after the death of his mother, Depp's young wife, actress Amber Heard, filed for divorce and accused the actor of alcoholism and domestic violence. Pictures with bruises and abrasions and a video in which Depp breaks furniture and drinks wine were quickly leaked to the Web, but the actor himself denied everything. After the divorce, Hurd received $ 7 million, which she spent on charity, and the former spouses do not talk about their personal lives anymore - the actors signed a non-disclosure agreement, noting that they have no claims against each other.
Pain that vodka can't numb
For years, Depp has been living with severe depression following the deaths of his close friends: actor Marlon Brando in 2004 and writer Hunter S. Thompson in 2005. Trying to cope with the pain, the actor decided to write his memoirs on an old manual typewriter, as Thompson did.
- I was at the bottom and could not endure this pain every day. I poured myself vodka in the morning and began to write until tears filled my eyes so much that I could no longer see the page. I kept trying to figure out what I could do to deserve this. I was kind to everyone, I helped those who needed it, I was honest.
“The fact that I spent $30,000 on wine sounds insulting. Because I spent a lot more"
The black streak also touched the acting career. There were rumors that Depp could not remember the text, so on the set he uses an earpiece, through which he was read out the lines. The actor confirmed this and noted that the main thing in his work is the look, and all his characters could appear in silent films.
“If there's no truth in the eyes, it doesn't matter what the hell words are said.