Ben  Affleck, who won Academy Awards for Good Will Hunting and Argo and starred as Batman in the DC Comics franchise, has been open about his issues with alcohol. He went to rehab for the first time in 2001 and has called addiction “a lifelong and difficult struggle.” Following a stay at a treatment center in 2018, Affleck said on social media, “If you have a problem, getting help is a sign of courage, not weakness or failure.”

I want to bust the stigma attached to alcoholism in our country. Women particularly are discouraged from seeking help because it's a matter of shame for the family. We don't share our pain or frailties, we cover our weaknesses and it becomes a cancer.

I was in a dying condition and went to my father and told him that I need help and I am a drug addict. I was a lucky man that my father took me to the US where I stayed in a drug cure center for two years. In the first year, I used to think to myself, let's have one more smoke but I made a promise to myself that neither will I do drugs and nor will encourage its use.

​Samuel L. Jackson is a famous Hollywood film actor with a recognizable presence on the silver screen. He has appeared in movies for over 40 years, and many of them were high-grossing box office successes. Some of his most notable films include the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Shaft, XXX, and the list goes on.