9. Jack Osbourne – Drinking In Bars At 13
Thankfully, Jack has found his way through to the other side of his addictions. The son of famed slurring singer Ozzy Osbourne, has gone through the ringer when it comes to drug and alcohol abuse. At the tender age of 13, Jack was hitting bars and drinking people under the table. He stated, “I could remember being 13 and at a bar and people were like, ‘What’s this 13-year-old doing here?’ and I would proceed to drink them under the table,” he told MTV. “I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to show them that, I was, in a way, just as adult as they were, ‘because I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.” Starting young, the issues didn’t get any better when in 2002, his mother, Sharon, was diagnosed with colon cancer. With the family front-and-center on a reality TV show, the pressures of being in the spotlight and the drama with his mother became too much. Jack smoked pot and drank every day for 2 years and started taking Vicodin by the handful. But that wasn’t all. He started guzzling a variety of prescription pills until he entered rehab at age 17.
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