DRINKING YOURSELF TO Death

“FIRST you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

- VANESSA PAPAS

HOLLYWOOD star Bradley Cooper had reached a point in his life where he knew he only had two choices: stop drinking or die. For more than a decade Bradley has not touched alcohol. It wasn’t an easy journey, but overcoming addiction never is. “I wouldn’t have been able to have access to myself or other people, or even been able to take in other people, if I hadn’t changed my life,” he says. “I never would have been able to have the relationships that I do. I never would have been able to take care of my father the way I did when he was sick. So many things. Alcohol affects more than just yourself it also affects those around you.”

Other celebs who have battled addiction demons include Daniel Radcliffe, Billy Joel, Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore, Elton John, Keith Urban, Stephen King, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr and Demi Lovato. Demi began drinking after she was bullied in school. At the age of 18 she withdrew from the Jonas Brothers Live In Concert Tour to enter rehab, but a year later hit rock bottom once again.

“I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka and it was just 09h00 and I was throwing up in the car and this was just to get on a plane to go back to LA to the sober living house that I was staying at. I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it.” Demi checked into a sober house in January 2013 after several months of sobriety, and went on to mark her sixth year of sobriety in March 2018. However, the singer admitted in June that same year that she had suffered a relapse.