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Fergie, RDJ and 6 More: These Transformations Show Stars Who Battled Addiction As Shells of Their Famous Selves

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Dec 5, 2014 5:49 pm·

There’s no denying that drugs have an incredible impact on your body — and as these stars can tell you, addiction can be psychology exhausting.

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It’s easy to forget how far these famous men and women have come in maintaining sobriety — but these pictures help show their incredible transformation from the time they were abusing drugs.

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Demi Lovato

"I wish more people would lose the stigma and treat addiction as the deadly and serious DISEASE that it is. Drugs are not something to glamorize in pop music or film to portray as harmless recreational fun. It's not cute, 'cool' or admirable."

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Robert Downey Jr.

"All those years of snorting coke, and then I accidentally get involved in heroin after smoking crack for the first time. It finally tied my shoelaces together. Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention."

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Eminem

“When I took my first Vicodin, it was like this feeling of ‘Ahh.’ Like everything was not only mellow, but [I] didn’t feel any pain. I don’t know at what point exactly it started to be a problem. I just remember liking it more and more. People tried to tell me that I had a problem. I would say ‘Get that f–king person outta here.’”

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Fergie

"It started with ecstasy. I loved ecstasy. Loved it, loved it. It was great at first, then it just went…. It ruins you. For me, it's something I went through. It's an epidemic, and it's important to talk about it because it's a very, very hard thing to stop."

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Lindsay Lohan

“I’m an addict. [Alcohol], in the past, was a gateway to other things for me," she said. "I tried cocaine with alcohol."

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Angelina Jolie

“People can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… For many reasons, I shouldn't be here."

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Matthew Perry

“I had a big problem with pills and alcohol, and I couldn't stop… I was never high at work. I was painfully hung over. Then eventually things got so bad I couldn't hide it and everybody knew."

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Jodie Sweetin

"I was selfish, self-serving, insecure, angry and fearful person living a double life. I covered up my problems by pretending to be happy and saying that everything was fine."