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Chris Klein Says Sudden Fame Drove Him to Become an Alcoholic: Most Shocking Celebrity Confession?

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Chris Klein

Klein, who starred in "Election" and "American Pie," says he became an alcoholic after a taste of sudden fame, and he "would have died" if he didn't turn his life around.
  1. Chris Klein

    Chris Klein

    Klein, who starred in "Election" and "American Pie," says he became an alcoholic after a taste of sudden fame, and he "would have died" if he didn't turn his life around.

  2. Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Last year, the former California gov/action star dropped a major bomb when he confirmed that he had fathered a son with a member of his household staff while married to Maria Shriver.

  3. Mackenzie Phillips

    Mackenzie Phillips

    In her 2009 memoir "High on Arrival," the "One Day at a Time" star claims that she had a consensual, years-long sexual relationship with her father, "The Mamas & the Papas" singer John Phillips.

  4. Anne Heche

    Anne Heche

    In 2000, Heche said her father's sexual abuse led her to create an alter ego named "Celestia," an alien from another planet who could speak to God and was the half-sister of Jesus Christ.

  5. David Duchovny

    David Duchovny

    Duchovny and Tea Leoni separated last year, three years after he sought treatment for sex addiction.

  6. Ricky Martin

    Ricky Martin

    In 2010, after years of speculation, Martin came out as a "fortunate homosexual man."

  7. David Arquette

    David Arquette

    In 2010, Arquette and Courteney Cox announced their trial separation. One day later, he told Howard Stern that he had sex with a cocktail waitress, and that he and Cox hadn't had sex in over five months.

  8. Cory Monteith

    Cory Monteith

    Monteith, who plays clean-cut jock Finn Hudson on "Glee," told Parade last year that he was skipping school to get wasted by the age of 13, and had dropped out completely at 16. Post-rehab, he cleaned up his act.

  9. John Mayer

    John Mayer

    In 2010, Mayer detailed his chronic masturbation habit, then compared ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson to "sexual napalm."

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Remember Chris Klein? The hunk who starred in "Election" and "American Pie," and dated Katie Holmes before she became Mrs. Tom Cruise? He's back in "American Reunion," which hits theaters April 6. But it hasn't been an easy road since then. After a taste of sudden fame, Klein tells People magazine he became an alcoholic.

"I would have died, and I think about that every single day," the actor, 33, tells the mag. After two DUI arrests and a jail sentence, Klein decided to change course -- and he's been sober for 19 months.

"It got to the point where I was a fragile shadow of the young man that came into this business," he says. "Today, I'm the luckiest guy alive." From Klein to Arnold Schwarzenegger to Ricky Martin, click through our slideshow and let us know: What was the most shocking celeb confession?
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  • RoseyRhod 2012/03/29 19:27:19
    Mackenzie Phillips
    RoseyRhod
    +15
    That poor woman. The word consensual is misleading. Ms. Phillips did not have the psyche of an adult at the time that her father took advantage of her. He taught her how to shoot up when she was only eleven years old. They got high together for years. People who blame her and call her a "sicko" have no idea what was going on in her head. The first time it happened, she woke up to her father having sex with her. That is not consensual, it is rape. She may have agreed to the relationship thereafter, but it was in no way the same as a truly consensual relationship. It was coercion. She desperately wanted for her father to love her. I am amazed that she is doing as well as she is today, that she didn't wind up dead.
    There is, in truth, no such thing as a consensual parent-child sexual relationship. No matter how old the child is, it is still a power-over-other relationship to a degree. It would have to be an exceedingly dysfunctional relationship in the first place for such a thing to ever occur.

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  • Pele Emerging 2012/03/30 03:40:44
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Pele Emerging
    +3
    I don't think there is any such thing as consensual sex with your father.
  • James D... Pele Em... 2012/03/30 16:06:59
    James Dal Santo
    +1
    truee...
  • sally 2012/03/30 03:32:39
    Mackenzie Phillips
    sally
  • Angecael 2012/03/30 01:27:59
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Angecael
  • POWERSHAKER 2012/03/30 01:26:18
    Chris Klein
    POWERSHAKER
    +1
    Man, that's such a cop out. He gets famous, and then blames it for causing alcoholism. How ridiculous! He's lame!
  • Michelle Pfeiff 2012/03/30 01:12:50
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Michelle Pfeiff
    +2
    Mackenzie Phillips and Anne Heche are both very sad cases and it was through no fault of their own. I choose Mackenzie over Anne for one reason. Mackenzie was duped into thinking it was a consensual relationship when there is no way for that to be possible.
  • James D... Michell... 2012/03/30 16:09:48
    James Dal Santo
    earning points here...
  • the judgebigdogeagle 2012/03/30 00:07:12
    Anne Heche
    the judgebigdogeagle
    Nothing shocks me when it comes out of Hollyood anymore. I just picked one to comment but My real answer is none of the above.
  • Atmara 2012/03/29 23:50:07
    David Arquette
    Atmara
    Courteney, get a divorce girl! You are so beautiful, why would you want to be with such a looser?
  • byz 2012/03/29 22:03:52
    Anne Heche
    byz
    +1
    I say Ann Heche, not because it was the worst (that would be Phillips) but it was more "shocking" because her break down was so unexpected and public.
  • Ken Ben... byz 2012/04/03 22:58:07
    Ken Bennett
    No matter how hot the woman theres a guy there thats tired of boinking her. Most of ya get all lame and entitled after you marry... ya waste the guy and then cry how he don't satisfy you anymore. Waah!! You are all evil. lol
  • Quazar 2012/03/29 21:57:16
    Anne Heche
    Quazar
    +4
    Remember she was staright, then gay then staright. If she keeps this up I guess she will become a pretzel. lol
  • 10997 2012/03/29 21:36:50
    Mackenzie Phillips
    10997
    +4
    "She said that at the age of 19, on the night before her first wedding, "I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father." In a later article in People magazine, she adds that she was under the influence of drugs provided by her father.[8] Phillips then told Winfrey, "It became a consensual relationship,"[9][10] describing her participation as "sort of Stockholm Syndrome, where you begin to love your captor."[10] She later changed her mind about it being a consensual relationship. In an interview on HLN's Joy Behar show, she said: "As I was writing the book, I thought, this word, it kept sitting wrong with me. But I used it for lack of a better word. Since then, I've been schooled by thousands of incest survivors all across the world that there really is no such thing as consensual incest due to the inherent power a parent has over a child. So, I wouldn't necessarily call it a consensual relationship at this time."[11]"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
  • Atmara 10997 2012/03/29 23:55:08
    Atmara
    +1
    That is totally crazy! But I know the way my father and his friends would look at me when I was a teen.
    But my father never did touch me. I dont know what I would have done. I love my father, but it still haunts me. I dont think Im the only one. I love my father more now.
  • modernm... Atmara 2012/03/30 19:31:17
    modernminuteman
    +1
    maybe your dad was looking at you with pride that he fathered a pretty woman but because his friends looked at you with lust it tarnished what your dad thought? i hope it was that.
  • Atmara modernm... 2012/03/30 21:35:32
    Atmara
    Thank you. I think you're right. Bless you
  • the_old... 10997 2012/03/30 18:05:16
    the_old_coach
    What a mess.
  • smitty 2012/03/29 21:13:40
    Anne Heche
    smitty
    Is anyone surprised hollywierd is screwed up.

    There hasn't been a decent film in a generation or two.
  • Atmara smitty 2012/03/29 23:57:09
    Atmara
    There are lots of screwed up people in the world. I disagree, I have seen lots of great films
  • smitty Atmara 2012/03/30 12:29:04
    smitty
    Got a couple to list?

    I don't mind expanding my ideals.. well to an extent anyway..
  • Atmara smitty 2012/03/30 17:53:59
    Atmara
    Belly dancing for soul mates


    Belly dancing for soul mates
  • Mikey Pooh 2012/03/29 20:42:23
    John Mayer
    Mikey Pooh
    +1
    cause I never thought he was relevant enough to develop a drinking problem.
  • Alice Evie 2012/03/29 20:32:51
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Alice Evie
    +2
    Mackenzie Phillips mostly, but Anne Heche's was really sad
  • GoreGirl 2012/03/29 20:27:27
    Mackenzie Phillips
    GoreGirl
    +1
    that's just sick >.<...why would you LET incest happen?! i guess that makes it worse, because she wasn't forced into it, it was consensual.
  • Philip GoreGirl 2012/03/30 22:24:13
    Philip
    +1
    She was 11-years-old she first woke up to having sex with her father. It was never consensual. Her father was a rapist and she was a confused psychologically damaged child. If you haven't been sexually abused, then you don't know what it is like - especially when it is your own father and you know nobody would believe you - which by the way was the case... her own sister still doesn't believe her and many others still don't. Please stop saying that it was "consensual." No sex with a child is ever "consensual."
  • GoreGirl Philip 2012/03/31 00:20:44
    GoreGirl
    erm...you can still get away from it some how, and not CONTINUE the relationship well into your adult years.
  • Philip GoreGirl 2012/03/31 05:33:14
    Philip
    +1
    She didn't continue it. She stopped.
  • GoreGirl Philip 2012/03/31 13:59:19
    GoreGirl
    I don't think I read it wrong, and this is what I'm going off of:
    "...the "One Day at a Time" star claims that she had a consensual, years-long sexual relationship with her father, "The Mamas & the Papas" singer John Phillips."
  • Philip GoreGirl 2012/04/01 01:18:56
    Philip
    +1
    Like I said, she did stop and I will never stop sticking up for her. Think what you want. Her father was in the wrong here.
  • QuietChallenge 2012/03/29 20:23:04
    Mackenzie Phillips
    QuietChallenge
    +4
    I think someone needs to administer a little "Texas Woodshed Talking-To" to Daddy John Phillips.

    It's not "consensual" if the one party exploits immature emotions, alcohol, drugs, financial promises, career security--or even hero worship--to gain sexual favors.

    I say boycott everything that SoB John Phillips touches. AND anyone who defends him.
  • smitty QuietCh... 2012/03/29 21:17:46
    smitty
    Ummm he is dead. Died what 10 years ago?
  • disclaimer 2012/03/29 20:12:14
  • Sterling 2012/03/29 20:02:23
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Sterling
    +1
    Is anyone really ever surprised by these things?
  • Lisa 2012/03/29 19:46:24
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Lisa
    +2
    It's so...wrong wrong
  • Elz 2012/03/29 19:36:32
    Anne Heche
    Elz
    +1
    her story was the most "saddest" i have ever heard lol
  • RoseyRhod 2012/03/29 19:27:19
    Mackenzie Phillips
    RoseyRhod
    +15
    That poor woman. The word consensual is misleading. Ms. Phillips did not have the psyche of an adult at the time that her father took advantage of her. He taught her how to shoot up when she was only eleven years old. They got high together for years. People who blame her and call her a "sicko" have no idea what was going on in her head. The first time it happened, she woke up to her father having sex with her. That is not consensual, it is rape. She may have agreed to the relationship thereafter, but it was in no way the same as a truly consensual relationship. It was coercion. She desperately wanted for her father to love her. I am amazed that she is doing as well as she is today, that she didn't wind up dead.
    There is, in truth, no such thing as a consensual parent-child sexual relationship. No matter how old the child is, it is still a power-over-other relationship to a degree. It would have to be an exceedingly dysfunctional relationship in the first place for such a thing to ever occur.
  • RoseyRhod RoseyRhod 2012/03/29 19:28:56
    RoseyRhod
    +6
    Oh yeah--screw you, John Phillips, for messing up those great songs you made with the Mamas and Papas for me forever. I will never again be able to listen to "Monday, Monday" or "California Dreamin'" without thinking "and John Phillips banged his daughter." Yuck!
  • Atmara RoseyRhod 2012/03/29 23:58:30
    Atmara
    I know, its really sad
  • quirkyandloving it 2012/03/29 19:20:57
    Cory Monteith
    quirkyandloving it
    +3
    Who is Cory Monteith?
  • Lisa quirkya... 2012/03/29 19:43:22
    Lisa
    +3
    He plays Finn Hudson on Glee, a TV show on Fox finn hudson glee

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