Sober Celebrities

Speaking to Vogue during an interview for the magazine's April 2023 cover, Cara shared that she's proudly been sober for four months – and reflected back on a series of paparazzi shots of herself from last June, taken in Van Nuys airport, that sparked concern. "I hadn’t slept. I was not okay," she shares. "It's heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, 'Okay, I don't look well'. Sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for."

The latest celebrity to share her sober journey is former Made In Chelsea star Millie Mackintosh. Posting a mental health check in on her Instagram, the mum-of-two explained how she had a "breakthrough in therapy" and decided to quit the booze in late 2022.

"I didn’t want to admit it but [alcohol] is a huge trigger for my anxiety. It has an instant negative effect on my mental health and right now I’m focused on... finding happiness in my life and not trying to escape from it. It’s been 12 weeks and I’m enjoying sober life, not missing the ‘han[g]xiety’, feeling more energised, my skin is looking great and I’m sleeping much better," she wrote.

Rapper Jack Harlow quit drinking in 2021, crediting the move as one of the greatest decisions he's ever made. Speaking to Rolling Stone, the First Class singer explained that while he didn't feel like he had a problem with booze, it was around him much more often as his fame skyrocketed.

"I was sick of waking up with a dry throat, sick of feeling bloated and sick of the decisions I make on it," he said, also sharing that drink sometimes made him feel "numb."

Model and cooking queen Chrissy Teigen took to social media in July 2022 to reveal she'd marked one year of being sober. As well as celebrating the impressive landmark, the 37-year-old shared a raw and honest look back at her drinking days, telling her 40.1 million followers she "never" wants to be that person again.

"Not a drop of alcohol in 365 days! I miss feeling loopy and carefree sometimes, but to be honest toward the end, it didn’t give that fun feeling anymore anyhow," she said in the caption of the post. "I drank to end crazy anxiety that later mostly went away when I – get this – quit drinking! Sigh."

Chrissy continued: "Anyhow I feel really good. Sometimes I get really frustrated looking back on days I should remember way better than I do because of alcohol."

"These are pictures from huge moments in life where my eyes just look… gone. Some are from real work shoots, some just beach days with the family," she added. "While I honestly STILL don’t know if I’ll never have a drink again, I do know I never want to be that way again. And for now, none is best. I’ll let the bad dreams come up and try to sort them out in therapy, without booze."

Rapper Nicki Minaj has opened up about her relatively newfound sobriety, telling fans on Twitter that she is "loving life".

Responding to a follower who asked, "Are you high?", the musician and mum-of-one said: "No I’m sober and loving life." In a second tweet, she went on to add, "I used to b[e] happy when I was high. Now I’m happy when I’m sober. No judgement to anyone. Be gentle with yourself."

The 40-year-old opened up about how becoming a mother has changed her outlook on life, telling James Corden on The Late Late Show that she "sees more good in people" and "more good in the universe."

Best known to Stranger Things fans as Vecna, Jamie Campbell Bower stopped drinking eight years ago and has been open about his struggle with addiction. Posting a hopeful message to his Twitter in 2022, the actor shared that his drinking was hurting loved ones, but that he'd since turned a new leaf.

"I’m so grateful to be where I am, I’m so grateful to be sober. I’m so grateful to be. Remember, we are all works in progress," he wrote.

Superstar DJ Calvin Harris hasn't touch drink for over eight years, after hitting the bottle quite heavily in his early career. Answering a question from a fan on his Twitter, Calvin said that drinking was "clearly affecting" his performances, but that now his shows were "a million times better."

"If you drink, you can’t even remember if it’s a good show or not — and that’s probably for the best, because it would have been rubbish because I’d have been drunk and not making any sense."

The actor initially kept her choice to abstain from alcohol a secret, only choosing to share it with the world after she'd been sober for two years (despite having previously been open about the substance abuse issues she faced as a teenager) – which is absolutely fair enough.

Speaking to TV host Gayle King, Drew admitted that she was previously stuck in a bad cycle, "When you are stuck in a pattern, or if you are going through things and you not only admit them out loud, but you force yourself to say, 'I'm willing to make big changes'... I think we all think we're very weak when we don't make those changes [but when we do, that's where the empowerment comes in]."

She added that she kept her sober journey a secret until it was one she'd built enough confidence in on on a personal level. "I just want to figure this out and go about this with no profession, no public anything, and now it's been long enough where I'm in a lifestyle that I know is really working on a high road for my little journey, and there's so much peace finally being had where there were demons."

Former reality TV star, Jessica Simpson, took to social media recently to reflect on her four years of sobriety. Speaking to her 6.2 million Instagram followers, the 42-year-old said: "This person in the early morning of Nov 1, 2017 is an unrecognisable version of myself. I had so much self discovery to unlock and explore."

She went on to explain how alcohol had kept her "mind and heart circling in the same direction" revealing that she was "exhausted." Four years on from her decision to stop drinking alcohol, Jessica said, "I didn’t love myself. I didn’t respect my own power. Today I do... I own my personal power with soulful courage. I am wildly honest and comfortably open. I am free."

In an interview with The Sunday Times, The Game of Thrones star candidly discussed his issues with alcohol and addiction, while both filming the TV show and after it wrapped. "I went through some pretty horrible stuff," Kit explained, referencing his very intense periods of depression. "Things that have happened to me since Thrones ended, and that were happening during Thrones, were of a pretty traumatic nature and they did include alcohol. You get to a place where you feel like you are a bad person, you feel like you are a shameful person. And you feel that there’s no way out, that’s just who you are."

However, he added, that alongside going to rehab, changing his thoughts surrounding the expression 'a leopard never changes its spots' was a helpful turning point. "Getting sober is the process of going, 'No, I can change'," Kit said. "One of my favourite things I learnt recently is that the expression 'a leopard doesn’t change its spots' is completely false: a leopard actually does change its spots. It really helped. That was something I kind of clung to; the idea that I could make this huge fundamental change in who I was and how I went about my life."

He has now been sober for three years, saying, "I have a child and my relationship is brilliant… I’m a very, very happy, content, sober man."

The singer recently marked 18 months of sobriety.

In a selfie posted to Instagram on January 27, the Smile songstress held up a grey keyring with a message that reads: 'Clean and Serene for eighteen months.'

Allen has been refreshingly open in talking about her sobriety journey over the years. Earlier this month, the British star appeared on The Recovery podcast to talk about her lifelong addiction battle.

'I'm in a really happy and healthy relationship,' she said, before referencing her husband, Stranger Things actor David Harbour, who she married last year.

'He's sober, has been sober for 20 years now. We're thinking about what we're going to do with the rest of our lives... I don't have as much as I had then in terms of success and wealth, but I have success and health in my mind, which is more valuable I think.'

The super model told Vogue UK that in the past, she struggled to control her drinking. "The time between 1998 and 2005 was especially bad. During that time I avoided looking in the mirror, because I didn't like the person who was looking back at me. To be honest, there were times I thought I wouldn't survive. I used to have a lot of problems... amongst others I drank too much, so I joined Alcoholics Anonymous to get and stay sober."

Naomi also checked into rehab for a cocaine addiction back in 1999 and continues to talk about her experiences with both drugs and alcohol to help others.

Sharing that there's a history of addiction in her family, Miley said in June 2020 that she's been 'sober, sober' for six months – also prompted in part by needing to have vocal surgery. "I’ve been sober sober for the past six months. At the beginning, it was just about this vocal surgery... It’s really hard, especially being [sober and] young, there’s that stigma of 'you’re no fun' [but] it’s like, 'Honey, you can call me a lot of things, but I know that I’m fun'."

She added that she doesn't miss hangovers either. "I don’t want to wake up feeling groggy. I want to wake up feeling ready."

Now sober from both drugs and alcohol for over 25 years, a report by Contact Music said Jada's wake up call came when she was regularly drinking two bottles of wine. "I found myself drinking two bottles of wine on the couch and I said, 'Jada, I think we've got a problem here.' I had problems with alcohol and I really had to get in contact with the pain, whatever that is, and then I had to get some other tools in how to deal with the pain. From that day on I went cold turkey."

The Harry Potter star explained this his drinking problem stemmed from feeling lost in life. "I definitely think a lot of the drinking that happened towards the end of Potter, and for a little bit after it finished, it was panic and not knowing what to do next, and not being comfortable enough in who I was to remain sober."

Speaking about his decision to go sober, he said it felt "weird" to give up alcohol at such a young age, but that he was "very, very happy" about it. "But I will always be fascinated and frustrated by the question of, 'is this something that would have happened anyway or was this to do with Potter?’"

For the Sex and the City star, ditching booze came about after she realised it was interfering with her acting. She told Marie Claire UK, "I realised it was not going to end well. I got into the acting program, it was very challenging, I was hungover and I wasn't doing so well in my classes. I thought, 'Do you know what? It's going to be one or the other. I can't really have both.'" Now, she's been sober for over 30 years.

During a chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Bradley said his reasons for going sober were about wanting to achieve as much as he could from life. "I don't drink or do drugs anymore. I realised I wasn't going to live up to my potential, and that scared the hell out of me. I thought, 'Wow, I'm actually gonna ruin my life. I'm really gonna ruin it.'"

In 2019, the actress announced she was giving up drinking for a very specific eighteen years, after becoming a mother. "I quit drinking back in October, for 18 years," she said. "I'm going to stop drinking while my son is in my house just because I don’t totally love the way I do it and he's getting to an age where he really does need me all the time in the mornings."

While chatting on the Lorraine show, she added, "The time I have with him is really precious. And I do leave a lot for work and I found my time with him was getting impacted, not necessarily by the drinking, as I never went out of control around him. But I hate to say it – as you get older, the hangovers get really bad... I had to make a choice and I chose mornings. Isn't that annoying? Isn't that horrible? I'm really irritated by how well it's going."

Not drinking alcohol has long been a part of the rapper and designers life – he told PAPER magazine, "Everybody else can do what they want, but that stuff isn't for me. I've been drunk nine times in my life, and I ate some weed brownies once."

Known as much for his hilarious social media antics (let us never forget his Vine videos – R.I.P) as he is his music, fans of Tyler are likely already familiar with the artist's wild side. But getting crazy drunk isn't something that appeals, he said during an interview with Fantastic Man magazine, "I just don’t want to drink. I know that I don’t want to be that drunk guy. But I do know I want to hit a jump on a dirt-bike. I can look at that and say: ‘I want to do that.’ I’ve never seen anyone drunk, like, ‘Damn, I want to be that.’ So, I guess I just naturally got it pushed into my head that I have no reason to go over there and get f**king drunk."

Once famous for her love of a good party (buckets of champagne included), one of the world's most famous super models now avoids drinking entirely. That's not to say Kate now spends her evenings sat at home working on her knitting though – she's still regularly spotted at events, mocktail in hand. Speaking about her newfound sobriety, Kate's close friend DJ Fat Tony (who is also sober) said, "Kate's been clean for over two years. Me and my sober mates now have a better time than we ever did when we used to drink and take drugs."

Over 16 years ago, Dax Shepard decided to turn his life around and got sober. One of his anniversary tweets in 2016 states, "I now have a wife & babies & some self-esteem #gratitude #promises." He shared on his podcast, Armchair Expert, that he relapsed with painkillers, however he's now sober again.

Yup, that's right. The High School Musical heartthrob is sober after his alcohol and drug addiction resulted in rehab in 2013. Zac Efron told ELLE in 2016, "You get out of life what you put in. Crossing the line is what leads to greatness."

The Iron Man star openly talked about his battle with substance abuse in his 2014 Vanity Fair cover story, revealing that he has now been sober for over 10 years.

In the singer's 2012 Women of the Year profile by British GQ, Del Rey explains that she struggled with alcohol addiction for most of her early teenage years, finally getting sober before she turned 20 and after moving to New York City to pursue her music.

Tom Holland revealed to Entertainment Weekly in May 2023 that he has been sober for one year and four months.

The actor said that working on Apple TV+ show The Crowded Room allowed him to ‘recognise triggers and things that stress me out'.

Discussing how talking to psychiatrists to prepare him for the psychological thriller helped him in his personal life, he told the news outlet: 'Learning about mental health and the power of it, and speaking to psychiatrists about Danny (his character) and Billy's struggles, has been something that has been so informative to my own life.’

Hadid celebrated five months of sobreity during a trip to Las Vegas in March 2023. The model shared several photos of herself in a red dress with crimped hair, captioning the post: '5mo

'I am 7 years sober today,' Welch wrote on Instagram, February 2, before adding, 'I send my love and support to anyone who is struggling. If you are feeling shaky around ED issues, drugs or alcohol, I completely understand.

'The desire to disassociate is so strong. But please don’t give up. We are going to need you on the other side.'

Her post included a picture of her hand touching a painting of the number 7 surrounded by a heart with two arrows in it.

The 34-year-old singer first spoke about her path to sobriety in a interview for Billboard in 2015. 'I used to drink before every performance, I’m quite shy, really -- that’s probably why I used to drink a lot. But I don’t anymore. When I finally took time off to make this new record, I had time to strengthen. And when I was coming back into the fray, I really didn’t want to lose that. I thought I could go dive-bomb back into it, but look what happened. I dived into it and literally broke myself.'

The Revenant star spoke of his addiction to alcohol in an interview on Good Morning Britain in 2018.

‘I was a bog standard alcoholic my whole life,’ he said.

His struggles with addiction started in his teens and culminated in him collapsing in London in 2003. He later went to rehab and has been sober ever since.

'The only thing that saved me through that dark time was acting,' he previously told the Daily Mail. 'I originally got into it because I wanted to make my father proud of me.

The ‘Gravity’ singer told Complex magazine in 2018 that it was after Drake’s 30th birthday party and a six day hangover than he decided to stop drinking.

‘I looked out the window and I went, “OK, John, what percentage of your potential would you like to have? Because if you say you'd like 60, and you'd like to spend the other 40 having fun, that's fine,”’ he told Complex. ‘”But what percentage of what is available to you would you like to make happen? There's no wrong answer. What is it?” I went, “100.”’