11 Stars Who Beat Drug Addiction
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There’s a reason Eminem named his 2010 album Recovery. The multiplatinum rapper overcame what he called a life-threatening prescription drug addiction.
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Before he became one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, Samuel L. Jackson had to overcome addictions to both alcohol and crack cocaine.
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Models are familiar with the term “heroin chic,” but as a recovering addict, Naomi Campbell says cocaine was her drug of choice.
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Chaka Kahn fell victim to both cocaine and heroin in the ‘90s. She beat the addiction, relapsed with an addiction to prescription meds in 2013, and briefly spent some time at the same rehab facility as Lindsay Lohan.
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By his own admission, the oxycontin beast had Black Hippy member ScHoolboy Q in a headlock. He detailed his battle with the prescription drug in his 2014 song “Oxycontin.”
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The always outspoken Wendy Williams beat an addiction to cocaine in both its powdered form and crack while working multiple jobs in the ‘90s.
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Even while dominating the charts and winning a Grammy in 1995, Mary J. Blige said her depression drove her to drugs and alcohol.
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Kid Cudi formerly described himself as a functional alcoholic who also abused cocaine. Fatherhood, health issues and finding a good creative zone helped him kick both habits.
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It’s all in the lyrics. On Wu-Tang Clan’s “Can It Be So Simple,” Raekwon described quitting his vice of cocaine-laced blunts by saying, “I washed my mouth out with soap and got my act together.”
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In his memoir, Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God, Russell Simmons joked that during the ‘80s he tried to snort half of South America.
