SoberHeroes: Stephen King
There’s blood on his typewriter. Dope-nose blood. Stephen King, the master of horror, is binge-writing and binge-snorting cocaine.
Famous Alcoholics: Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
It’s midnight. There’s a candle burning in a bedroom, a bottle of Bordeaux gleaming in its wake. Creative genius flows as quickly as the wine. Ernest Hemingway — Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author — is hunched over his typewriter in a frenzy, crafting the perfect prose: clickety-clack-clack-clack as he sips the red wine. The Sun Also Rises takes shape. He’s drunk. Truth is, Hemingway never drank while writing. But when he was not writing, he was a certifiable lush.
Bipolar Geniuses: Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most iconic celebrities in American history. She’s right up there with Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson for her fame fingerprint. Her face is emblazoned in the pantheons of art history as the beautiful subject of many Andy Warhol screenprints. She was the ultimate sex symbol – Playboy magazine’s…
Are Addicts Just Crybabies?
If you feel the need to chastise James Hetfield as a crybaby for getting sober, then go burn your copy of Master of Puppets. We know you still have it.
Bipolar Geniuses: Carrie Fisher
She played Priness Leia – one of the most iconic heroes in Hollywood history. But off screen, Carrie Fisher has battled bipolar and addiction for decades.
Bipolar Geniuses: Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Over time, Van Gogh was hospitalized at least five times for manic-depressive breakdowns. Friends and various artists described him as eccentric, disturbed, terrifying, on the verge of a breakdown, extremely difficult, obstinate and as a heavy drinker.
Bipolar Geniuses: Robin Williams
Williams confided to Carrie Fisher about his moods. While he didn’t believe he was bipolar, he answered yes to the five “Are You Bipolar?” questions Fisher posed at her one-woman show.
