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Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing” in November, 2022 devouring it in a week. She identified with Perry’s ability to hide his addiction like her own. To the outside world, she was a successful mom volunteering at her kids’ school.She ate healthy and worked out, working at an Alzheimer’s clinic and doing yoga by day.

As Standing Rock Sioux writer and theologian Vine Deloria Jr. once said, “Religion is for people who're afraid of going to Hell.

found unresponsive in a hot tub in his Los Angeles home on Oct. 28. He was 54.

told the Sun that he first tried heroin at 17 — and by 29 was addicted to fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger.“I don’t know how this happened but all the heroin in the United States started to contain fentanyl. So I didn’t even realize I was doing fentanyl,” said the rocker, whose half-sister, Lisa Marie Presley, died a year ago after a long battle with substance abuse.“So suddenly I was addicted to fentanyl.”Unlike heroin, where users go hours between hits, “with fentanyl you have to do it every 45 minutes or else you start to get sick,” said Garcia.“So it got to a point where it was very expensive.“I was spending $3,000 a month on fentanyl.

revealed to TMZ that Jean, who passed away last month at the age of 41, was buried “somewhere in the Tampa area” and that the funeral was only attended by close friends and family members. While there is no confirmation that Bobbie Jean’s older brother Nick Carter, 43, was in attendance, it was confirmed that Jean’s mother, Jane Carter, gave the eulogy.

on the hit reality TV show “Jersey Shore” — revealed that a cadre of celebrities once confronted him about his ongoing painkiller addiction. “We consumed hundreds, if not thousands, of pills. Every day, all day,” Sorrentino, 41, revealed in his memoir “Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation,” which is set to hit bookshelves Jan.

Variety about relating to the “Friends” star’s battle for sobriety, which Perry detailed in his 2022 memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.” Perry died on Oct. 28 at the age of 54. “Addiction is just a disaster,” Mulaney told the outlet on Monday.

who died on Oct. 28 at the age of 54 from an apparent drowning — have announced that they will establish the Matthew Perry Foundation.The organization will be formed to aid those battling substance abuse.“The Matthew Perry Foundation is the realization of Matthew’s enduring commitment to helping others struggling with the disease of addiction,” officials said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight.The charity will continue on Perry’s goal of helping people with addiction.“The Matthew Perry Foundation is the realization of Matthew’s enduring commitment to helping others struggling with the disease of addiction,” the statement went on.“It will honor his legacy and be guided by his own words and experiences and driven by his passion for making a difference in as many lives as possible.”The Canadian actor struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for much of his life, eventually gaining sobriety in May 2021.He also formed the Perry House in 2013 that resided in his former Malibu abode, which was a male sober living facility.

pay tribute to Matthew Perry shortly after his death Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reports.The British singer-songwriter, 35, shared that she had “never met [Perry] in my life,” but said she’ll remember his “Friends” character “for the rest of my life.”“He’s probably the best comedic character of all time,” Adele told the audience at the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace, which hosts her Vegas residency.Perry, 54, played lovable goofball Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom from 1994 to 2004. Early reports say Perry died of accidental drowning in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home.“The Whole Nine Yards” star had long battled drug and alcohol addiction, which Adele noted at Saturday’s show.“He was so open with his struggles with addiction and sobriety, which I think is incredibly, incredibly brave,” said Adele, who recently revealed she had quit drinking.Adele paused her Las Vegas show to pay tribute to Matthew Perry, who was found dead Saturday in L.A.“I’ll remember that character for the rest of my life,” she said of his role as Chandler Bing.

Robin Williams’ longtime friends have recalled his heavy drug use, saying his addition to cocaine made him a “monster.”The beloved Hollywood sweetheart died by suicide in 2014 at the age of 63.But before his acting career blew up, Williams was a stand-up comedian who struggled with a severe addiction to drugs in the late 1970s and early 1980s.In fact, Williams’ pal Allen Stephan reveals in Vice’s “The Dark Side of Comedy” documentary series that the “Mrs. Doubtfire” actor couldn’t go on stage and perform without cocaine.Revealing one conversation he had with the late actor at the time, Stephan remembered, “He said, ‘Know anyone with any blow? I have to go on and I can’t go on without any blow.’ And I sat down and said, ‘I’m going to help you.'”“He goes, ‘You have blow?’ I go, ‘No, are you out of your f–king mind? You’re Robin Williams!’ And then I think after that he wouldn’t get high when he had to perform.”The late actor’s longtime friend, Mike Binder, remembered Williams’ reaction to “a gram of coke” during the pair’s outing in Hollywood in the ’80s.“Robin said, ‘Let me take that.

wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter on Wednesday. “I’ve done this one day at a time, and for anyone out there struggling YOU CAN TOO.”Along with the celebration and words of encouragement, the “Machete” star shared a photo of himself, arms wide open in an LA Rams jean jacket and hat, with a joyous smile.Trejo told Fox News in July 2021 that he realized he “had to” get clean during his stints in and out of jail in his youth.“I had to get clean,” Trejo recalled.

“Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge.”“You definitely had some wild years?” famed survivalist Grylls, 49, asked the actor in the rugged canyons of the Wyoming Basin.“In terms of alcohol and drugs, yeah, but nothing to do with fame,” Cooper clarified. “But I was lucky. I got sober at 29 years old, and I’ve been sober for 19 years.

he discussed his experience with the “Sex and the City” reboot — and how it pushed him to get sober.Though he may make it look easy to walk down the street in bright graphic prints and electric blue pants, he explained to host Rachel Bilson (“The O.C.”) that he was really struggling behind the scenes.“I was in Hawaii and I was blackout drunk and my agent called and said, ‘They need you in New York,'” Lee, 51, recalled on the July 24 podcast episode. “This is one of the reasons why I’m sober … On the plane, I thought, ‘I’m just gonna get s–t faced,’ so I was in a blackout when we landed in New York.”Lee explained that he only learned he was expected to film that day when he realized that his driver wasn’t taking him to his hotel.“I remember going [to film “AJLT”] and being so high and drunk,” Lee said.

had a near-fatal overdose and landed in a coma. Now she’s breaking her silence on what happened — and her ongoing issues with her famous dad. It started in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, when she lived on a high floor of an apartment building in Century City, California, she explained.

— who spent two months in rehab last year after relapsing on alcohol amid other health issues — will no longer speak at the Atlanta Women’s Expo, organizers told the Sun. “There is a video from Wendy that will be played Saturday, apologizing for the late cancellation,” a representative for the Expo said in confirming the cancellation to the outlet.

Comedian John Mulaney will be spending Christmas and New Year in rehab for drug and alcohol addiction, according to a report.

now three years sober “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” star said of her years battling addiction in an interview with the Daily Mail. “But the biggest, stupidest thing I’ve done is spend that much money on drugs.”She has admitted to becoming an addict during her relationship with then-boyfriend Geno Doak, and the couple was arrested in March 2019 for felony drug possession in Alabama.

his divorce and the birth of his son with Olivia Munn — as well as the pandemic.He burst into song about the weird years, singing, “We all went to rehab, and we all got divorced, and now our reputation is different. No one knows what to think.

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” which detailed his struggle with addiction after dissing the actor several times in the book Perry, 53, made the apology when the “Friends” star appeared at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.“I said a stupid thing. It was a mean thing to do,” Perry said according to the LA Times. “I pulled his name because I live on the same street.

told Aussie magazine Stellar. “It doesn’t make me feel good, even if it’s something nice about one of us.”The “13 Going on 30” star said she also goes out of her way to avoid press coverage of all her loved ones.“I just try to forget that I’m out there in any way, and the same with anyone I love,” Garner added.

fall from grace in 2022, said her trauma comes from spending most of her childhood looking after her bipolar and heroin-addicted mom, Pandora, and many people assumed that her life was easy.“In a way, a lot of people have looked at my childhood or my family and thought ‘She’s spoiled, there’s nepotism, she grew up extremely privileged’ which I did, don’t get me wrong,” said the 30-year-old for Vogue’s April cover story, released Wednesday. “But life wasn’t all that easy for other reasons.”The British actress said that her introduction to alcohol use came at the age of 7 while at a family wedding.“I woke up in my granny’s house in my bedroom with a hangover, in a bridesmaid’s dress,” said Delevingne.

singer was found dead — accusing cops of failing to investigate his “potential homicide” and a flurry of “death threats.”Jane Carter shared the five graphic images on Wednesday, including some seemingly showing feces smeared across clothing and the bathroom floor — as well as the tub filled with green water, in which the 34-year-old troubled singer’s body sat for hours after his Nov. 5 death.His mom said the shock move was part of her “still trying to get a real investigation for the death of my son.”“I want to share these death scene photos with you all because the coroner wrote it off as an accidental drug overdose,” she wrote alongside the pics.“They never investigated it as a possible crime scene because of his addiction past,” she claimed of the star who had long struggled with addiction and mental health issues.“Look at the photos.

he told the Daily Mail in July.He revealed that his early success led to money mismanagement and bad decisions, adding that he “didn’t have too many people looking out for me” and was “left to run wild” as a young actor.Furlong shares his 15-year-old son, Ethan, with his ex-wife Rachael Bella. The couple was married from 2006 to 2014.Prior to the DailyMail interview, he wrapped filming on a project called “Charlie’s Horse.” His last movie role was “Terminator: Dark Fate” in 2019 where his face was digitally inserted onto a stand-in.

cuffed again about two years later for failing to comply with the terms of the program. The star then spent nearly two months in prison starting in May 2019 before heading into another drug court program.Lange has been candid about his ongoing battle against drug addiction over the years — even sharing pics of his misshapen nose caused by drug abuse.

After nearly four years of silence, James Franco, 43, finally addressed his sexual misconduct scandal in an interview on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Podcast, some of which was released on Wednesday, December 22.

wrote in the description of the video. “This song healed a broken piece of me.”The song comes after cryptically alluding to the release on Twitter, which followed a more serious thread of tweets about her past experience with addiction.On Nov.

Remojo, which bills itself as “the world’s only complete program for blocking and quitting porn, for good.”“It wasn’t addiction or ruining my life, but it was a bad habit that was stopping me being my best self,” the Durham University economics graduate told the Mirror.Jenkins soft-launched the app in September after investors put more than $1.2 million toward its creation, and as of July, the $4-per-month support app has over 100,000 downloads.Over 90% of those customers are male, Jenkins

Apple Music Country show “Beyond the Influence Radio” on Wednesday about how she “saved” herself from her addiction issues.Nicks, 73, said if she were to ever share her life story with fans, the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman would like to avoid sharing her experiences with drugs.“I managed to save myself. I got through some pretty scary moments, but I saved me, nobody else saved me,” she told the country singer.

gallons, the big-handles — a day. That’s f–king crazy,” he said in the video interview from his basement studio.Lee said he had been sober for four years before he began the bender.“I just realized, ‘Whoa dude, you’re drinking enough to like, you could probably die.'”His wife, social media star Brittany Furlan, 34, also feared for his health.

When “The Flash” actor Logan Williams died suddenly April 2 at age 16, he was mourned by many who never knew his cause of death.