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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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  • Kyle 2012/03/29 19:12:55
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Kyle
  • prosperhappily 2012/03/29 18:49:19
    Mackenzie Phillips
    prosperhappily
    +2
    I think Mackenzie Phillips is the most shocking, although Anne Heche is pretty out there as well.
  • RoseyRhod prosper... 2012/03/29 19:31:09
    RoseyRhod
    +2
    It actually isn't that surprising for a person who is being abused in a horrific manner to dissociate and either completely blank out what happened, or create another reality. Most people with dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) were sexually abused.
  • Tennessee3501 2012/03/29 18:39:14 (edited)
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Tennessee3501
    +1
    Actually, the best answer for me is "all of the above"! Although I should not be surprised at anything anymore, it always surprises me when people who seem to have been given so much, manage to screw things up for themselves and the ones they love! Mackenzie Phillips is the one celebrity listed above who should not be blamed for what happened to her, and that is why she received my vote.
  • RoseyRhod Tenness... 2012/03/29 19:32:48
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    +3
    Should Anne Heche be blamed for the fact that her father was sexually abusing her?
  • Tenness... RoseyRhod 2012/03/29 21:00:55
    Tennessee3501
    I am sorry and express my sincere apologies to Anne Heche! I thought it referred to some other aspect of her life! I was not aware that she and Mckenzie Phillips shared the same problem!
  • mick 2012/03/29 18:16:55
    Chris Klein
    mick
    +1
    no shocker to any of them..dysfunction is the norm!
  • RoseyRhod mick 2012/03/29 19:34:07
    RoseyRhod
    +1
    Yep, it's really normal to be having your own father rape you. (i.e. Anne Heche, Mackenzie Phillips.) All their fault, the dirty sluts.
  • KATLYN 2012/03/29 18:01:45
    Anne Heche
    KATLYN
    +1
    she has always been a little crazy
  • RoseyRhod KATLYN 2012/03/29 19:35:44
    RoseyRhod
    +1
    Do you not suppose that if your father was sexually abusing you, you might become a little "crazy" as well? What she describes is actually a fairly normal coping mechanism, given the trauma of what was being done to her.
  • KATLYN RoseyRhod 2012/04/01 21:28:53
    KATLYN
    maybe so , i also know a few people that had rough childhoods and guess what, they are not crazy at all ,quite wonderful people in fact
  • liz_sexy_gurl317 2012/03/29 17:41:19
    Mackenzie Phillips
    liz_sexy_gurl317
    +1
    wtfffff gross unhuman !!!!
  • RoseyRhod liz_sex... 2012/03/29 19:36:19
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    +1
    Yes, what Mackenzie's father did to her was awful. She is not to blame.
  • kent RoseyRhod 2012/03/29 21:02:14
    kent
    As a drug addled addict adult participating in a years long incestuous relationship, she was also not blameless. And yes what her father did to her in total was horrendous.
  • Darlin' 2012/03/29 17:29:28
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Darlin'
    +3
    Drew Barrymore is my #1 vote.
  • kent 2012/03/29 17:29:23
    Mackenzie Phillips
    kent
    +3
    Why is there no yin for the yang to the "sudden fame made me an alcoholic/drug addict" thing? Why is there never a claim of "being an alcoholic/drug addict made me a successful star??

    Life is just unfair.
  • Margaret Jacobson 2012/03/29 17:26:58
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Margaret Jacobson
    +2
    What was her FATHER THINKING ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!! they are all bad............
  • RoseyRhod Margare... 2012/03/29 19:39:09
    RoseyRhod
    +3
    How is Ricky Martin "bad?" He simply figured out that he was gay.
  • smitty RoseyRhod 2012/03/29 21:20:24
    smitty
    So he was bad before he was gay still.
  • Alphalily 2012/03/29 17:25:29
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Alphalily
    +1
    In the lead
  • gregaj7 2012/03/29 17:10:20
    Mackenzie Phillips
    gregaj7
    +3
    Heche is a close second.

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