Musicians
This Honorable British musician died of an alcohol addiction in 2011.
Amy Winehouse
Miley Cyrus has admitted that many of her close friends and family misunderstand her __________ as being ungrateful as many with this condition often feel.
Depression
This musician got sober in 2008 and, with clarity, he talked about the fun he had making music again stating, “I remember when I first got sober and all the shit was out of my system, I remember just being, like, really happy and everything was fucking new to me again.”
Eminem
His addiction to cocaine led to a string of arrests in the 1990s and ultimately derailed their once-promising musical future in the world of funk and soul music.
Rick James
The musician shocked the world when he overdosed in his early 50s on a mix of prescription drugs, including midazolam, lidocaine, diazepam, and lorazepam.
Micheal Jackson
Singer Luke Combs once described his struggle with this mental health diagnosis, stating: “It’s thoughts, essentially, that you don’t want to have,’ Combs explained. “Then they cause you stress, and then you’re stressed out, and then the stress causes you to have more of the thoughts, but trying to get rid of them makes you have more of them.”
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
In the early 1980s, in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, the musician was, in his own words, “a drug addict and self-absorbed.” Although he came out HIV-negative, he regrets his addiction and currently runs their own AIDS Foundation.
Elton John
This musician was cited by the Guinness World Records as the most awarded female act of all time, was repeatedly in and out of rehab. She passed away in 2012, allegedly as a result of her addiction.
Whitney Houston
This musician has long struggled with addiction. In fact, his heavy alcohol and drug abuse led to him being fired from the famous heavy metal in 1978.
Ozzy Osbourne
Singer Ariana Grande talked about suffering from ____ after more than 20 people were killed in a bombing during one of her shows in 2017.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
This country star, who relapsed just after getting married in 2006 said he almost lost it all before getting sober stating, “I had to find a way to be different in this world… I wrote plenty of hit songs while drunk. I wrote plenty sober. I feel lucky it hasn’t defined my creativity.”
Keith Urban
The legendary musician was arrested multiple times for heroin possession but managed to avoid jail.
Ray Charles
After a relapse, he died from an accidental drug overdose of cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol at his home at the age of 26.
Mac Miller
Singer Kurt Cobain was diagnosed at a young age with Attention Deficit Disorder [ADD], then later as an adult with _______ which has the same characteristics as major depression, but with periods of rage, euphoria, high energy, irritability, distractibility, overconfidence, and other symptoms.
Bipolar Disorder
This musician checked into the same rehab for alcoholism twice in 1987, partly because he wanted to be a better father figure to his new son but he then went on to found a recovery program in 1998 called the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, which features a residential 12-step-based program.
Eric Clapton
This mucisian has “dabbled with drugs.” However, she has endlessly relapsed on drugs and even shaved her head to hide the evidence of her amphetamine addiction.
Brittney Spears
This musician admitted to using cannabis, hashish, cocaine, and LSD, but denied using heroin or amphetamines.
Jimi Hendrix
Lauryn Hill, has spoken openly about her mental illness and how it affected her career, including some erratic behavior on stage and causing her to take a hiatus from the music industry.
Schizophrenia
This member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers turned to cocaine and heroin when he was young. But he swore off drugs when his bandmate died of a heroin overdose in 1988.
Anthony Kiedis
Throughout his career, this musician battled addiction to alcohol and amphetamines, often leading to erratic behavior and run-ins with the law.
Johnny Cash