Samuel L. Jackson
Ethan Miller//Getty Images Jackson readily admits that sobriety helped him to become a better actor by getting into character in a deeper way. 'I took it a step further, I drank and I used drugs,' he told The Telegraph. 'I liked the feeling of not being cognisant of what was going on around me.'
Tom Hardy
Jon Kopaloff//Getty Images 'If I had four pints of lager and half a bottle of vodka I could turn this room into an absolute f*cking nightmare in about three minutes,' Hardy told The Mirror about getting sober for life — from both drink and drugs. 'I could destroy everything in my life I have worked so hard for.'
Bradley Cooper
Juan Naharro Gimenez//Getty Images 'If I continued it, I was really going to sabotage my whole life,' Cooper told GQ in 2013. Cooper got sober at 29 years old and has now been a teetotal celebrity for 19 years.
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Tom Holland
ANGELA WEISS//Getty Images British actor Tom Holland, known for playing Spider-Man, opened up earlier in the year about his sobriety. On Jay Shetty's podcast, On Purpose, he admitted that quitting alcohol was 'the best thing I’ve ever done' after realising the extent of his dependence.
Brad Pitt
Julian Finney//Getty Images 'I didn’t want to live that way any more,' Pitt told GQ Style when asked about his struggles with alcohol addiction and going cold turkey. He reportedly hasn't had a drink in 6 years.
Robert Downey Jr
Alberto E. Rodriguez//Getty Images The Avengers and Iron Man star has been sober for over 15 years. Downey Jr. made headlines in the early 2000s due to his battle with addiction, after which he turned his life around.
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Zac Efron
George Pimentel//Getty Images The go-to man for all things fitness, nutrition and health, Efron has chosen a life without alcohol. 'What I found is structure,' Efron told Elle on the topic of his own sobriety back in 2016. 'That led me to a balance of opposites: You get out of life what you put in.'
Ben Affleck
Frederick M. Brown//Getty Images Affleck has been open about his struggle with alcohol for years, and completed his third stint in rehab in 2018. More recently Affleck told The Hollywood Reporter, 'I became - out of no desire of my own - one of the poster boys for actor alcoholism and recovery and the whole thing. And the best part about that is that sometimes people call me up and they’re like, 'Hey, can you help me out?''
Rob Lowe
Frederick M. Brown//Getty Images Lowe credits his sobriety to his wife, Sheryl Berkoff. 'She inspired me to get sober. She’s put up with my defects of character as they call it,' he said. 'In sobriety the lessons keep coming if you’re lucky enough to be along as long as I have.'
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Gerard Butler
Paul Bruinooge//Getty Images 'Maybe a stronger person wouldn't have needed to go,' he said about going to rehab. 'When you hear the word rehab, you think, 'He's a mess, he's f*cked up.' But I'm glad I did it. I've made a sh*tload of wrong decisions in my life. But I know I've made some right ones as well.'
Calvin Harris
Cooper Neill//Getty Images 'I stopped drinking because it actually was making me ill,' the DJ told the BBC. 'It was affecting my brain in the worst way.'
Colin Farrell
GEOFF ROBINS//Getty Images Farrell recently opened up about spending more than a decade sober and admits that he now does 'a bit of yoga, I like a nice hike and I drink dragon nasal juice.'
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Kit Harrington
Mike Coppola//Getty Images Harrington shared his struggles with alcohol and addiction in an interview with The Sunday Times saying 'I went through some pretty horrible stuff,'. He has now been alcohol free for 3 years.
Andy Murray
Matthew Stockman//Getty Images 'I always wanted to see how far I could go in the sport,' Murray said about giving up booze. 'I didn't want to do anything to jeopardise that.'
Pharrell Williams
NBC//Getty Images '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.' Williams told PAPER magazine.
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Daniel Radcliffe
E! Entertainment//Getty Images 'It’s lovely. I barely think about it [alcohol]' he explained to The Telegraph, after a long route to getting sober after filming the Harry Potter franchise.
Joe Manganiello
NBC//Getty Images 'I was homeless, careless and broke with no career,' he said in an interview with the Huffington Post. 'So yes, it was worth it [to get sober].'
Tyler, the Creator
Kevork Djansezian//Getty Images The rapper shared in an interview with Fantastic Man magazine why he doesn't drink alcohol, '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.’'
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Chris Martin
Sergione Infuso - Corbis//Getty Images Martin shared on Pete Holmes’ podcast, You Made it Weird, 'I don’t do so well on drugs and alcohol. It messes with the music. Some people, it enhances it. For me, it doesn’t.'
Eminem
Kevin Winter//Getty Images Recently celebrating 12 years of sobriety, Mathers almost died from an overdose in 2007.
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