In accordance with the Cleveland Clinic, as a lot as 24 million U.S. adults may presumably be categorised as hooked on intercourse and constantly address “excessive sexual concepts, needs, urges or behaviors that will’t be managed.”

Whereas it’s not a topic that’s sometimes spoken about, pretty a few celebrities have come forward with their wrestle with intercourse behavior, made worse by fame and limitless entry to tempting situations. By the use of treatment and typically a rehab hold, these celebs say they’d been ready to beat their behavior — and hope to help others in comparable situations.

Uncover out what these celebs acknowledged about their intercourse behavior…

1. Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith admits that each one by her life she’s dealt with behavior factors, from alcohol to intercourse. Wanting once more, Jada says there was a time interval when she believed that a variety of her points may presumably be solved with intercourse. She was solely ready to switch forward when she obtained to the inspiration of her factors.

“My type of addictions soar. They soar spherical. After I used to be youthful, I undoubtedly suppose I had a intercourse behavior of some type…all of the issues may presumably be fixed by intercourse,” she acknowledged on an episode of Purple Desk Communicate.

She continued, “I’m a binger, and I always have to take a look at myself and I can merely get obsessive about points. It’s not what you’re doing nevertheless the best way you’re with it. Why you’re doing it. It’s the conduct that’s linked to it on account of if you want a great deal of intercourse, that’s good, nevertheless why are you having all that intercourse? That’s what you’ve obtained to try.”

2. Lamar Odom

Lamar Odom struggled with an behavior to intercourse that almost led to his demise. All by his life, Lamar admits he had sexual relationships with larger than 2,000 girls, dishonest on Khloé Kardashian many cases all through their marriage. On excessive of that, he outlined that intercourse was a “set off” for medication which allowed him to “double up on [that] good feeling.” These addictions are how he in the end ended up on the Love Ranch brothel in Las Vegas, the place he overdosed and virtually died. For him, it was a wake-up title.

“I’m sober now. However it certainly’s an frequently wrestle,” Lamar instructed the Players Tribune. “I’ve an behavior. I’ll always have an behavior. It in no way goes away. I indicate, I want to get extreme correct now. Nevertheless I do know that I can’t if I want to be proper right here for my children.”

3. Justin Bieber

Sooner than Justin Bieber tied the knot collectively along with his partner Hailey, he says he had “a dependable draw back with intercourse.” Throughout the years earlier to the couple reconnecting, Justin had decrease out many of the troublesome actions in his life nevertheless intercourse was his final vice, even though it not launched him pleasure. Justin lastly decrease out intercourse altogether, hoping it’d carry him nearer to God.

“He’s like, I’m making an attempt to protect you from injury and ache. I imagine intercourse may trigger a great deal of ache. Usually people have intercourse on account of they don’t actually really feel okay. Because of they lack self-worth. Girls do this, and guys do this,” he instructed Vogue. “I wanted to rededicate myself to God in that method on account of I truly felt it was increased for the scenario of my soul. And I think about that God blessed me with Hailey consequently. There are perks. You get rewarded for good conduct.”

4. Jennifer Lewis

When black-ish actress Jennifer Lewis was in her 20s, she lived with undiagnosed bipolar dysfunction and a intercourse behavior. In her memoir, The Mother of Black Hollywood, she outlined that each one of it began when she moved to New York to work on Broadway. After appearing on stage each night, she would have trouble coming down from the adrenaline extreme and would fill the void with intercourse.

“Appearing on Broadway was a rush. The applause coming over the footlights was like a tsunami in gradual motion,” she wrote in her e guide. “The crash after the current, I assure you, is solely as intense. Let’s merely say that publish current I had a type of habits of intercourse serving as a nightcap. I was Cleopatra, Pam Grier, Marilyn Monroe, and Jezebel rolled into one. For me, nothing may lengthen the enjoyable of a standing ovation like good intercourse with a surprising man.”

As she continued to wrestle alongside together with her undiagnosed bipolar dysfunction, she began self-medicating with alcohol together with intercourse. Lastly, she sought help from a therapist who helped her perceive what was truly taking place.

“Merely as alcoholism isn’t truly regarding the liquor, my behavior wasn’t truly regarding the intercourse. It was regarding the unresolved psychological points that prompted me ache. Intercourse was merely my painkiller,” she outlined.

5. A$AP Rocky

A$AP Rocky admits he’s been a intercourse addict for lots of his life — and has prolonged been open about his sexual actions and the orgies he hosts. Wanting once more, A$AP says that he believes his behavior began whereas in junior extreme and has continued all by his life.

“I’ve been a intercourse addict for some time, yeah,” he acknowledged on Untold Tales of Hip Hop, per TMZ. “These are points that people keep away from and they also don’t want to admit. I can’t be embarrassed about it. I placed on my coronary coronary heart on my sleeve. I don’t do nothing that I’m not happy with speaking of.”

6. James Franco

After James Franco confronted sexual misconduct allegations from former faculty college students at his showing college, he overtly admitted that he struggled with intercourse behavior. He outlined that after preventing an behavior to alcohol from a youthful age, he gave up ingesting and ended up turning into obsessive about intercourse and validation from girls — nevertheless may in no way get adequate.

“It’s such a strong drug,” he outlined on The Jess Cagle Podcast. “I obtained hooked on it for 20 additional years. The insidious part of that’s that I stayed sober from alcohol all that time. And I went to conferences all that time. I even tried to sponsor totally different people. So in my head, it was like, ‘Oh, I’m sober. I’m residing a spiritual life.’ The place on the side, I’m showing out now in all these totally different strategies, and I couldn’t see it.”

7. Russell Mannequin

All by his life, Russell Mannequin has struggled with addictions along with medication and alcohol. For a couple of years, he moreover battled intercourse behavior which began when he was merely a teen and was solely made worse when he found fame.

“After I grew to develop into sexually aware as a teen, I obtained very obsessive about intercourse and girls and pornography. So the problem spherical intercourse was present once more then. I was very uncomfortable with my physique, so my points had been spherical porn and meals. Then I took medication between 16 and 19 after which heroin,” he instructed Us Weekly.

He continued, “I misplaced a great deal of weight and moved from the suburbs into city. Girls had been now drawn to me. I went type of crazy with that. The sexual behavior, for me, was worse after I used to be clear. I imagine for about 5, 10 years it was truly harmful. Concentrate, I’m lucky. I was well-known. I’m heterosexual. I’m drawn to grownup, human females. It’s not subtle. I don’t have any weird tastes. It was an excellent place to be in if in case you could have that actual draw back.”

After ending up in rehab on numerous occasions, Russell has now been free of drug, alcohol and intercourse behavior for over 20 years.

8.  Mike Caussin

Mike Caussin’s intercourse behavior in the end led to the tip of his marriage to Jana Kramer. Earlier to their divorce, the earlier NFL participant cheated on Jana on many occasions and was in and out of rehab for intercourse behavior. Wanting once more, Mike outlined that having intercourse grew to develop into a coping mechanism for him, significantly as he struggled to transition to life outdoor of the NFL.

“It manifests in a number of strategies for varied people. It doesn’t come from me wanting to have intercourse — it’s me feeling a positive method and from my full life wanting once more I merely used intercourse as type of my escape,” Mike acknowledged on Nightline.

He continued, “I may make any type of excuse between me transitioning from the NFL to ‘the standard world,’ feeling like I misplaced my id on account of I wasn’t a soccer participant anymore. I ran to girls, I ran to intercourse, and that type of flourished [into] what I later found was an behavior.”

Whereas Mike and Jana labored to stay collectively by way of his wrestle with behavior, he in the end cheated on her as quickly as as soon as extra and she or he lastly filed for divorce.

9. David Duchovny

Once more throughout the early 2000s, life imitated art work when David Duchovny entered rehab for intercourse behavior after portraying a sex-obsessed creator on Californication. There had been rumors that he dealt with behavior for years and whereas he had repeatedly denied them, that changed when he checked into rehab.

“I’ve voluntarily entered a facility for the remedy of intercourse behavior,” he acknowledged on the time. “I ask for respect and privateness for my partner and youngsters as we address this case as a family.”

Whereas he has not spoken about his time in rehab, he and his partner Tea Leoni did in the end reduce up.

10. Andra Day

In 2021, Andra Day admitted that she as quickly as had a intercourse and porn behavior that she labored to beat sooner than taking on the perform of Billie Trip in America vs. Billie Trip. Andra outlined that she wished the film to cope with the music and by no means the best way wherein Billie was hypersexualized on the earth of jazz, which coincided alongside together with her private personal struggles.

“I didn’t want any facet of sexualization [in the film]. I had come out of 1 factor in my very personal life — dealing with porn behavior, intercourse behavior. I’m being very, very candid with you on account of I’m not the one one. Nevertheless I knew I wanted all of that very so much gone,” she instructed InStyle.

She continued, “I actually really feel now, after having fun with Billie, that I’m honoring her, and the power that’s femininity. I’m undoubtedly in a extra wholesome place to get pleasure from that on account of I’m outdoor of the behavior, if you happen to’ll. So, yeah, it’s been truly pleasurable, on account of it’s been very new for me.”