Tom Holland shared a glimpse into his sobriety journey in a May 9 interview with Entertainment Weekly. The Spider-Man actor opened up about his experience filming AppleTV+'s The Crowded Room, in which he plays a character with a severe mental illness who is the subject of a brutal crime. Though it was only fiction, the role took its toll on Holland.

To prepare, Holland spoke to psychiatrists to understand mental illness and how he could portray that authentically on screen. By doing so, he was able to recognize his own “triggers” and learned how to navigate them (like social media, which can be a brutal experience for someone with 69 million followers).

After nine months of filming, Holland experienced a separation from his identity and found it hard to fully step out of his on-screen counterpart. “The mental aspect, it really beat me up, and it took a long time for me to recover afterward, to sort of get back to reality,” he said.

During the interview, Holland disclosed that he is now one year and four months sober.

After a 2018 near-fatal drug overdose, Demi Lovato turned their life around. They sought treatment and took time to reflect on their relationship with drugs and alcohol. Lovato shared her “California Sober” lifestyle with Glamour in 2021, but they have since reevaluated their stance on sobriety. “The easiest way to do something the most authentic is to do it clean and sober,” they told Jimmy Fallon in 2022.

Lovato released their eighth album, Holy Fvck, only a day before her 30th birthday on August 19. Songs like “29” and “Skin of My Teeth” share raw insight into Lovato's journey to taking back ownership of themself and healing from their trauma. “I'm alive by the skin of my teeth / I survived, but it got harder to breathe,” they sing on the chorus of “Skin of My Teeth.”

“I made this album, you know, clean and sober,” they told Fallon. “I can’t say that about my last album, but this one I’m really really proud about.”

Best known as the sarcastic Chandler Bing on Friends, Matthew Perry has battled substance abuse for a significant part of his life. In a November 2022 interview with CBC Radio, Perry said he won't rewatch Friends "because I was brutally thin and being beaten down so badly by the disease…. I could tell season by season by how I looked, and I don’t think anybody else can, but I certainly could.”

In a sit-down interview with Diane Sawyer in October 2022, he admitted to taking 55 Vicodin per day. In 2018, after a life-threatening two-week coma, which was brought on by a colon burst from opioid abuse, Perry decided it was time for a change. “The doctors told my family that I had a 2% chance to live,” he recalled.

Perry released a raw memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, on November 1, 2022, in which he discussed his addiction.

Ben Affleck's relationship with sobriety has been an uphill battle. The actor's success with Good Will Hunting made him want to clean up his act, so he took his first step toward sobriety in 1997. At the time, he told a Fox News reporter, “I just wanted to stop. I started regretting some things I did when I was drunk.”

However, throughout his career, Affleck experienced the repercussions of having one too many drinks. “Relapse is embarrassing, obviously. I wish it didn’t happen. I really wish it wasn’t on the internet for my kids to see,” he shared with The New York Times in a July 2021 interview. Affleck has been in rehab three times, and his last visit in 2018 seemed to stick. “It took me a long time to fundamentally, deeply, without a hint of doubt, admit to myself that I am an alcoholic. The next drink will not be different.”

Ben Affleck has experienced setbacks, but he doesn't let slip-ups break his stride. “I have certainly made mistakes. I have certainly done things that I regret,” he said. “But you’ve got to pick yourself up, learn from it, learn some more, try to move forward.”

Cara Delevingne was catapulted to fame as a teenage supermodel and enjoyed the partying lifestyle that came with the job. However, after seeing paparazzi snaps of her own erratic behavior at Van Nuys airport in October 2022, she knew she needed help.

“All I knew is if I was continuing to go down the road I was, I would either end up dead or, like, doing something really, really stupid,” she shared with Vogue in 2023. Delevingne committed to a 12-week-long rehabilitation program that she says saved her life.

She swapped alcohol-fueled benders for dancing and making connections with people without a drunken haze. “I’m enjoying [sobriety],” she said. “It’s one of my favorite things to, like, go out and dance and have a good time but actually have, like, deep conversations and connections with people.”

Daniel Radcliffe's alcoholism was masked by his portrayal as “the boy who lived.” As an adult, he opened up about the toll alcohol took, sharing with BBC Radio 4 in 2020, “A lot of drinking that happened toward the end of Potter and for a little bit after it finished, it was panic, a little bit not knowing what to do next—not being comfortable enough in who I was to remain sober.”

Radcliffe's post-Potter career flourished onstage. After his 2008 performance in the play Equus, Radcliffe got bit by the Broadway bug—thankfully, he also found sobriety. He dropped drinking altogether to focus on his career and recalled to Off Camera: “I woke up one morning after a night going like, ‘This is probably not good.’” Radcliffe has been sober since 2010.

Everyone's high school (musical) sweetheart, Zac Efron made headlines for his 2013 stint in rehab. The actor had turned to cocaine and alcohol to cope with the immense fame following the success of the High School Musical franchise.

The news came as a surprise to many who viewed him as Disney's golden boy, but for Efron, it was a necessary wake-up call. “There was a moment when my morning routine was, like, ‘Get up and google yourself.’ But that stopped, dramatically and instantly” after getting sober, he told Elle in 2016.

Adele has spoken candidly about her relationship with alcohol over the years and shared the realization she had following her divorce from ex-husband Simon Konecki. “At first, I was probably keeping the alcohol industry alive,” she told Oprah Winfrey in a 2021 interview. “Once I realized that I had a lot of work to do on myself, I stopped drinking.”

Unlike others on this list, Adele's approach to sobriety is different. Removing alcohol from her routine helped her find steady ground and gave her time to rebuild a healthier relationship with it.

In a March 2022 interview with Rolling Stone, Jack Harlow shared the simple reason he stopped drinking: He didn't like it. “I'm sick of waking up with a dry throat, sick of feeling bloated, I'm sick of the decisions I make on it,” he said.

Alcohol isn't the only substance Harlow avoids. Despite his lyric in “Nail Tech” (“And I know I gave up drinkin', but I'm high though”), he also has complicated feelings about consuming cannabis. “I lose a lot of what I like about myself. I think it’s a control factor too. I lose a little control…. When I’m high I feel like I’m a piece of shit, and everyone knows.”

Jack Harlow remains committed to leaving alcohol in the past and focusing his time on his music.

In a 2023 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Barrymore pulled back the curtains and revealed how difficult her struggle with alcohol was. Following her divorce from Will Kopelman, Barrymore leaned on alcohol as a coping mechanism and eventually fell down a slippery slope. Friends of the actor, including Cameron Diaz, raised concerns, noting it was “difficult to watch” her struggle.

After a breakup with her therapist (“He just said, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’” she recalled. “It was really about my drinking”) and the opportunity to launch a talk show, Barrymore committed herself to an alcohol-free lifestyle. “I was like, ‘I can’t handle this unless I’m in a really clear place.’”

In December 2021, Barrymore shared with CBS Mornings that she hadn't drunk alcohol in two years.

Miley Cyrus is known for her rock-and-roll vibe and brutal honesty, but she ditched the stereotypical substances that many musical legends have fallen victim to.

Instead she researched her family history, and what she found surprised her. “[We have] a lot of addiction and mental health challenges. By going through that, asking ‘Why am I the way that I am?’ and understanding the past, [means] we understand the present and the future much more clearly,” she told Variety.

In a 2020 interview with New Music Daily, Cyrus said she “fell off” sobriety during quarantine, but has since recommitted to a sober lifestyle. “I don’t have a problem with drinking,” she said. “I have a problem with the decisions I make once I go past that level of...I’ve just been wanting to wake up 100%, 100% of the time.”

Naomi Campbell has not shied away from sharing her experience with drug and alcohol abuse. The supermodel admitted that she first tried cocaine at 24 years old in 1994, and quickly developed a habit. “I think what is very scary about cocaine is that you start to feel too confident and you start to feel indispensable, although none of us are indispensable,” she told ABC in 2004.

In 2008, following a string of publicized meltdowns, she entered rehab. “I don't want to go back,” she said in a 2013 interview. “No matter what it is that you're addicted to—you can be addicted to work—all it is, is an escapism. It's escaping something, no matter what.”

Nicki Minaj doesn't want that Coke, that Henny, that margarita on the rocks with salt around the rim anymore. The "Super Freaky Girl" rapper shared her new sober lifestyle on Twitter in 2022. “I used to b happy when I was high. Now I'm happy when I'm sober. No judgment to anyone. Be gentle with yourself.”

Minaj has referenced alcohol in several past songs, but she walks on a different path now. In 2020 she gave birth to her son, nicknamed Papa Bear, and motherhood gave her a different perspective. “[Motherhood] has made me see more good in people [and] more good in the universe,” she told James Corden on The Late Late Show With James Corden.

Chrissy Teigen celebrated her first year of sobriety in July 2022, sharing a screenshot of her “365 days sober” streak on her Instagram Stories. She followed up with a post on the ’gram to gush about her accomplishment and revealed a glimpse into her journey to sobriety. “I miss feeling loopy and carefree sometimes,” she wrote, “but to be honest toward the end, it didn't give that fun feeling anymore anyhow. I drank to end crazy anxiety that later mostly went away when I—get this—quit drinking!”

Teigen's relationship with alcohol is still on pause, and for now she wants to keep it that way. “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.”

Chrissy Teigen hasn't touched alcohol in almost two years.

Lucy Hale's toxic relationship with alcohol was well hidden from the public eye. “I have been working on getting sober since I was 20; I'm 33. It took time. It took patience with myself,” she said on The Diary of a CEO podcast in February 2023.

Hale's binge-drinking habit started at 14 and snowballed into an addiction that took a major toll on her life. “I just held on to that belief that the real Lucy came out when she was drinking,” she said. “I was a textbook binge drinker, blackout, wouldn't remember what I did or what I said.” Hale kept her drinking under wraps until it became too much.

“One of my best friends died of alcoholism, and that still didn’t make me want to get sober,” she said on the podcast. It wasn't until January 2, 2022, that she finally made the decision to give up drinking. A year later Hale publicly shared her sobriety on Instagram with a photo of a cake reading “1 year!” in icing.

Kehlani shared their smoke-free journey on TikTok in August 2021, saying, “I used to smoke a lot of weed and now I speak on it in a past tense perspective…. It's a beautiful plant with very nice properties when used correctly. I don't think that I was using it correctly. I think I was overusing it.”

By overusing it, the “Nights Like This” singer found the effects less and less fun. “I got to a point where I couldn't eat, sleep, or be at a social gathering. I couldn't kick it without smoking weed and I just didn't want it to have that hold on my life anymore."

As of 2021, Kehlani is sober, abstaining from both weed and alcohol, and it's a “big ol fuckin deal.”

In 2018, Lena Dunham checked in to rehab for an addiction to medication she was prescribed for anxiety.

The Girls actor and creator reflected on the first year of sobriety in a 2019 Instagram post: “I didn’t know I had an issue with drugs for a long time: because they were doctor prescribed, because I was outwardly successful and not a wild in da club party chick. But wouldn’t you say that hurting people you love is an issue? Wouldn’t you say feeling lost and lonely much of the time is an issue?”

Dunham called her five years in recovery “the happiest of my time on earth so far (at least this time around!) They’ve been full of work, love, complexity and—yes—pain.” In 2021, Lena Dunham married musician Luis Felber in a cozy ceremony (bestie Taylor Swift was a bridesmaid).