Stacey Dash: Clueless Actress “Lost Everything” Due to Painkiller Addiction

Stacey Dash is celebrating five years of sobriety. On Thursday, the Clueless star opened up about her addiction to painkillers, revealing how many pills she was taking when she hit bottom, and how she climbed her way back up. Read on for everything Stacey Dash revealed to Dr. Oz during her interview on The Dr. Oz Show.

“I just celebrated five years of sobriety. I'm clean five years,” she revealed. “And in these five years, my blessing, the greatest blessing is that not only have I been able to be honest with myself and become a better person, I've been able to understand my parents and that they did love me and that they were doing the best they could. And they were just sick. They were addicted.”

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She revealed she was taking between 18 and 20 Vicodin pills per day at one point. "18-20 Vicodin a day — that's expensive," Dr. Oz responded. “I lost everything,” she replied.

Even though she was prescribed the medication, she blames nobody but herself. "I'm not blaming doctors at all because it was my choice to take more, you know?" she said. "It was my choice to take that extra one even though I wasn't in pain. I chose to do that because the Vicodin filled that hole inside of me."

She also discussed why she self-medicated. "It filled that anger. It calmed that anger down. It slowed my brain down. It gave me the ease so that I could deal with life. That's how I became addicted. It's no one's fault but my own,” she said.

On Wednesday, before appearing on the show, she also shared a post to Facebook. “Tomorrow, I will be sharing my deepest, darkest secret. I thank the Lord for being able to say that I have grown more over the last 5 years than I have in my entire life,” she wrote. “I am so blessed to be surrounded by people who have loved and supported me through my most challenging time. Thank you all! I encourage anyone who has a story they are scared of telling to share it with the world. You never know who will be able to relate to you and who it can help.”

As a staple of TV soaps in the 1980s and 90s—notably Dynasty and Melrose Place—Heather Locklear became everyone’s favorite star, and she was a fitness icon to boot. After some health and legal troubles, Locklear appears back in action, starring in a new Lifetime film, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story, about the co-creator of the best-selling book series of the same name. (After her husband, Dr. Richard Carlson, passes away, Kristine must reevaluate what’s next.) Locklear attended the world premiere for the film in California yesterday. Read on to see 5 ways Heather Locklear stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Celebrates Her Sobriety

In April 2020, Locklear marked one year of being sober, and posted this Maya Angelou quote on Instagram: “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ‘life.’ I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision…..”

2. She Has Done Resistance Training

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“I do resistance training three times a week,” Locklear told Parade years ago. “That really helps with defying gravity and keeping things in place. I have light weights to do reps with both my arms and legs. I do cardio a couple times a week on the treadmill, with the music blasting. It’s what gets me through.”

3. She Tries to Keep Up With a Healthy Lifestyle

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“If I miss my workouts for a few weeks, it’s harder when I go back. If I eat junk food it’s harder to go back to eating the healthy stuff. Keeping up with the healthy lifestyle makes it easier in the long run,” she told Parade. She goes to her happy place via movement. “Exercise plays a huge part in that, especially cardio. I also love to play golf and tennis. Even a walk in the evening can take the edge off a bad day.”

4. She Has Tried Portion Control

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"I use portion control and try to keep it healthy 80 percent of the time. I don't deny myself carbs or sweets. I just make every effort to keep it within reason," she has said. Though sometimes she hits the drive-thru. "Sometimes when I'm tired after a long day's work it seems like the easy thing to do, but the next day I regret it," Locklear admitted.

5. She Knows Recovery is the Best Revenge

“Addiction is a ferocious and will try to take you down,” she wrote on Instagram. “Recovery is the best revenge. Be kind to everyone you meet, your light just might change their path.” It was a tribute to a friend Josh.

Julia Fox is bejeweled in a bathing suit! The actress shows off her incredible figure in a diamond swimsuit top in the latest issue of Elle. “10 years ago I got my first little write up in @elleusa and I remember being so hyped about it checking online everyday for months for it to drop and this year I got to do a full feature styled by the iconic @patti_wilson and shot by my sister @richieshazam and produced by my oldest and dearest sister-friend @cara_baby. I feel like I’m dreaming half the time idk how this is real life 🥹 thank you so much @ninagarcia for this full circle moment,” she captioned the post. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Julia Fox stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Lost 15 Pounds From the Stress of Dating Kanye West

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Julia lost a whopping 15 pounds in six weeks when she started dating Kanye West. “It just wasn’t sustainable,” she told The New York Times in an interview published on Thursday, March 3. “I lost, like, 15 pounds in that month.” She believes it was due to the stress and chaos of the relationship. “I tried my best to make it work,” she explained. “I already had a jam-packed life. How do I fit this really big personality into this already full life?”

2. She Admits to Going Under the Knife

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While she declared in a recent TikTok that “aging is fully in—like, fully,” she recently copped to Elle that she has gotten Botox, and once got liposuction, and is open to doing it again at some point. “I’m, like, saggy—like, things are not sitting the way they used to. But it’s like, I am not gonna do a damn thing about it,” she added.

3. She Believes in “Rehabilitation

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“Julia doesn’t walking for Alexander Wang go against everything you stand for???” a fan recently asked Julia on TikTok, about the designer who has been accused of sexual assault. She wrote back: “2 b frank I love cancel culture, but we do need to leave room for rehabilitation & for those who put in the work & heal & learn from their mistakes.”

4. She Also Says That Chasing a Toddler Helps Her Stay in Shape

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After seeing a lot of “deep dives” into her weight loss she decided to respond in a November 2022 TikTok video. “My weight loss was one trillion percent unintentional,” she says, adding that people who knew her, knew that she was “known” for her curves. “After I had my son I was just rapidly dropping all this weight, “ she continues. At one point she even wondered if she had a tapeworm. “When I go to dinner, I eat,” she says, “and then I order all the desserts on the menu. It just happened because I’m a single mom and I chase a toddler around. I don’t know.”

5. She Battles ADHA and OCD

Julia is completely candid about mental health and openly discusses her ADHD and OCD diagnoses. In a September 2022 TikTok video she describes her mental health as being “very difficult" and desribed the highs and lows. “I have bouts of, like, great productivity, where I’m, like, on top of the world, and just feeling like I am invincible. And then I have moments of, like, deep, deep, deep, stagnant type of feeling. Like I just can’t f---ing move,” she says. “ADHD is really tough. I have a little bit of OCD as well, which I just realized. I used to count the number of letters inside of words in my head, and I’d always want them to reach to 10.”

Demi Lovato is teasing her new track in her swimsuit. In one of her latest social media posts, the singer shows off her beautiful body in a bathing suit, while revealing that one of her new songs is now out. “My track with @le_sserafim “Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard’s wife” is out now,” she captioned the Instagram post. Demi has been very open about her mental and physical health struggles over the years. Here are a few of the ways she approaches health and wellness.

1. She Works Out for Her Mental and Physical Health

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While on the road, Demi has “a lot of people visit, which is really grounding for me,” she says. She also exercises, which is great for her body and mind, she says. “And I bring my trainer on the road. We work out and that centers mean mentally and physically. That helps a lot,” she told Vogue.

2. She Is Open About Her Eating Disorder Struggles

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“The very first time that I went to treatment was when I was 18,” Lovato told Today in an interview. “I went from my eating disorder, and I went for self-harm and emotional issues.” She added: “When you’re looking at images of people with perfect bodies, you start to look at yourself, and you start to pick yourself apart, and it’s hard to grow up in a world where that’s right in front of your face and at your fingertips at all times, she added. “I grew up in a period of time where young Hollywood was very, very, very thin, and that was the look, and I think that had a really negative impact on my eating just on my mental health, which I think fed into my eating disorder.”

3. She Uses Her Experiences to Help Others

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“I wanted to help others,” Demi explains about why she chooses to be open about her health issues. “I wish that I had somebody when I was 13 years old and having an eating disorder and starving myself. I wanted somebody in the public eye to say that ‘Hey, this is what I’ve gone through, and you don’t have to choose that route.’” She added: "I want them to know that talking to people and asking for help is more than okay and is absolutely what you should do," she said.

4. She Is Okay with Having “Bad Days

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Demi now has tools to handle hard times. “I don’t want to paint the facade that everything is totally perfect and fine. But I am in a really good place, and it has been kind of challenging to write a happy rock album,” she atold Today. “But I’m doing it! But I have bad days. I had a bad day on Sunday. I realized that even to this day, no matter how happy I might feel and seem. I’m human, and it’s okay to still struggle even when you’re in a great place.”

5. She Suffers From Hearing Impairment and Vision Loss From Her Heroin Overdose

In an interview with Andy Cohen for SiriusXM, Lovato shared that five years after the heroin overdose that almost left her dead, she is still suffering health-wish in the form of hearing loss and vision impairment. “I wouldn’t change my path because I don’t have any regrets. When I think about things, the closest thing that I get to a regret is when I overdosed … that overdose caused me a lot of … it actually caused a disability. I have vision impairment and hearing impairment to this day,” she said. “I don’t drive because I have blind spots in my vision. “It’s a daily constant reminder. You know, anytime I look at something, like, I have blind spots in my vision when I look at your face, and so it’s a constant reminder to stay on the right path because I never want that to happen again.”