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Sept. 14, 2025 – It used to be that when non-famouses said they had gone sober, they’d court intrusive questions at best and mistrust or ostracization at worst. If they hadn’t had a melodramatic tragedy happen to them that involved either a public nervous breakdown or a fully shaved head, then people thought their sobriety was a symptom of antisocial disorder or clinical insanity. By the way, you might assume that I’m talking about, like, the 19th century Wild West, but I’m actually talking about, like, 2019.
Of course, successful actors are somewhat removed from the social mores of normals. After all, their baseline mood is already assumed to be clinical insanity. I have always assumed that when an actor puts on a mood ring, it immediately turns the color of the sun and then explodes.Some actors can seamlessly hop on edgy trends like sobriety when they’re not yet a cool Gen Z TikTok challengeBelow are some actors who not only went sober before and after it was cool, but managed to turn their career around in inspirational ways.
