Dr. Drew Breaks Down Hayden Panettiere's Addiction

Kind of tying back to Hayden and Presley Gerber, is fame actually a risk factor for addiction or does it just make addiction harder to hide? Clearly, becoming a celebrity was a bid to deal with narcissistic injuries of childhood. It's very clear that people who are celebrities have higher incidence of childhood trauma, that the celebrity, the fame, is supposed to solve that problem, but of course it does not. And oftentimes celebrities feel kind of increased shame because people love them, but they know inside they feel bad about themselves. So it sort of stands out in juxtaposition to how they're actually feeling about themselves. And of course they can't regulate their emotions any better and they have access and they have people around them that might encourage it and off it goes. So you have both the drive from the childhood trauma, you have the genetic potential and the two together, and then the fact that there are not the same consequences that the rest of us suffer. Most of us would have an employer that would drag our ass in and say, you gotta get treatment or you're gonna be fired, or you're gonna lose your kids, or things will happen that are motivating people to treatment. Celebrities, that motivation is not there till their disease progresses to a very high extent, right? I mean, Michael Jackson, Prince, all these people, they were able to keep this thing going until they actually died. And they were given those meds by doctors, don't forget. So it's not even that they have more severe disease, it's that the disease progresses more before they have the consequences that would normally motivate somebody to care.