It’s January, which means many people are making resolutions to drink less or stop entirely. But in recent years, staying sober post Dry January has become increasingly popular. While the pandemic years saw spikes in drinking, especially among middle aged women, data from recent years finds that Americans are generally drinking less and that their attitudes around alcohol seem to be changing.
Data collected in August 2025 by Gallup found that only 54% of U.S. adults say they drink, the lowest number recorded since the firm started tracking drinking behaviors 90 years ago. The data also found that women generally were more likely to see even moderate drinking as unhealthy; this comes as a growing body of research points to the detrimental health effects of alcohol.
Over the years, a number of famous women have been open about their sober lifestyles. Whether they pursued sobriety as a result of overcoming addiction or a desire to adopt healthier habits, these women are proof that sobriety is possible. Here are eight celebrities who are sober.
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Anne Hathaway, 43
Image Credit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety Academy Award winning actress Anne Hathaway, 43, spoke with Vanity Fair in 2024 about her decision to stop drinking.
“I knew deep down it wasn’t for me. And it just felt so extreme to have to say, ‘But none?’ But none,” the actress said in the cover story. “If you’re allergic to something or have an anaphylactic reaction to something, you don’t argue with it. So I stopped arguing with it.”
Hathaway said that she chose to make the change permanent because, for her, “everything is better” when she doesn’t drink.
“For me, it was wallowing fuel. And I don’t like to wallow,” she told the magazine. “The thing that I have faith in is that everybody else is going to have one or two drinks, and by the time everybody gets to two drinks, you’ll feel like you’ve had two drinks—but without the hangover.”
Being sober is just one of the many practices, along with staying off social media, that Hathaway does to support her mental health. “I stopped participating in things that I know to be draining or can cause spirals,” she explained.
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Jamie Lee Curtis, 67
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety Academy Award winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis has long been open about her sobriety, which she has maintained for 26 years. She made the decision to become sober after battling addiction to alcohol and painkillers.
“Twenty-six years ago today I walked into my first recovery meeting. Since then, my life has completely changed,” the 67 year-old wrote in a 2025 Instagram post. “I have made beautiful, beautiful, friendships and it has expanded my life beyond recovery and it has given me the family life and creative life. I never thought possible.”
Curtis marked her 25th anniversary of sobriety in 2024 with an Instagram post that included a picture of a ring inscribed with “JLC Twenty Five” to commemorate the milestone.
In the caption of that post, Curtis also shared an inspiring message for others battling addiction and trying to maintain sobriety. “What’s inside, as my old friend Adam sang, is a sense of calm, serenity, purpose and the greatest feeling that I am not alone. That many others share the same disease and solution,” Curtis wrote. “For all those struggling with addiction and shame, there are others out here who care. My hand in yours. Our hands in yours. XO JLC.”
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Florence Welch, 39
Image Credit: PMC Florence Welch, the 39 year-old lead singer of Florence + The Machine, has been sober since 2014. In various interviews over the years, Welch has revealed that she struggled with alcohol addiction, particularly in the band’s early years, and often used her drinking as creative fuel.
“During the Lungs era [the band’s first album] it was fine to be a chaotic mess, ’cause that’s what that was,” she said during a 2022 interview on the podcast The Way We Are with Munroe Bergdorf. “When things got bigger in Ceremonials, and I was a ‘big artist,’ I was like, ‘This has to be contained. This can’t leak out into the public sphere.’” She added that while sobriety was initially lonely, it’s the “best thing I ever did.”
In a 2025 interview with Rolling Stone, Welch said that stopping drinking has helped her life become “quieter,” which in turn has made it easier for her to more fully express herself in her music.
“Be calm in your life so you can be wild in your work. I think that was really true for me,” she said, adding that she drank and did drugs to figure out “a lot of self-loathing and shame.”
“Once I got sober and my life became a lot quieter, I actually found that freedom from shame means that you can explore so many more different things in your work.”
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Lily Allen, 40
Image Credit: John Nacion/Variety Singer and actress Lily Allen, 40, has been sober from both drugs and alcohol for more than five years. She had previously struggled with addiction to alcohol and drugs, including Adderall.
Allen told the Times in 2024 that she works hard to maintain her sobriety to set an example for her daughters and to break the cycle of addiction that runs in her family. “That’s the main thing for me. I felt very unsafe in my childhood, and my kids feel safe,” she said.
She recalled to the newspaper when she appeared at her ex-husband’s house drunk, an incident she considers her rock bottom.
“I drank myself into oblivion. I went over to his house and started screaming at him, woke the kids up, you know, really distressed the children,” Allen said. ““They remember that. And they know that I was under the influence then, and that it’s important that Mummy avoids getting into those situations.”
In 2021, when she had been sober from both drugs and alcohol for two years, Allen said in an Instagram post that “getting clean is the BEST thing i ever did, and i’ve done a lot of cool shit.”
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Naomi Campbell, 55
Image Credit: John Nacion/Variety Supermodel Naomi Campbell, 55, has been sober for many years.
In the Apple TV documentary series The Super Models, Campbell said she turned to drugs and alcohol to process pain and grief, including from the murder of her friend Gianni Versace. She said she “kept the sadness inside, I just dealt with it.”
“When I started using, that was one of the things I tried to cover up, was grief. Addiction is such a bullshit thing,” she said. “You think it’s going to heal that wound, but it doesn’t.”
She checked into rehab after collapsing at a photoshoot, which she said “was the best and only thing I could have done for myself at that time.”
Campbell told British Vogue in 2010 that “the time between 1998 and 2005 was especially bad.” The model said that she “avoided looking in the mirror, because I didn’t like the person who was looking back at me” during that time.
“To be honest, there were times I thought I wouldn’t survive. I used to have a lot of problems,” she told the magazine. “Amongst others, I drank too much, so I joined Alcoholics Anonymous to get and stay sober.”
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Lucy Hale, 36
Image Credit: River Callaway/WWD Actress Lucy Hale, 36, has been sober from alcohol since 2022 and just marked four years of sobriety.
“Four years ago, I reached a very dark chapter and my personal rock bottom. It’s wild to say, but that ended up being the greatest gift and biggest turning point in my life,” the Pretty Little Liars star wrote in the caption of a Jan. 2 Instagram post. “The path hasn’t always been smooth. There’s been pain, discomfort, loneliness, and deep self-confrontation. But sobriety handed me back my life. I am deeply grateful for every single moment that has brought me to this point.”
In a 2023 appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Hale expanded on what it takes to maintain her sobriety.
“I feel so stoked to be able to talk about these things and know that I’m good. This is something I do that I work on every day,” she told host Alex Cooper. “I choose myself every moment of every day because I have to, because I want to be here and I want to live a full life.”
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Drew Barrymore, 50
Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety Actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore, 50, has been sober since 2019. In 2021, Barrymore announced her sobriety during an interview on CBS This Morning.
“I’m gonna say something for the first time in a long time: I have not had a drink of alcohol in two-and-a-half years,” the star said. “It was something that I realized just did not serve me and my life.” She added that she chose not to share her sobriety with anyone initially because it was a “quiet, confident journey.”
Barrymore later expanded on her decision in 2022 essay she penned for her magazine Drew. She wrote that quitting alcohol “has been one of the most liberating things in my journey of life.”
“One of the bravest things you can do is slay those dragons and finally change an awful cycle in which you’ve found yourself stuck,” Barrymore wrote. “For me, it was to stop drinking.” She added that giving up drinking let her “finally become free of the torture and guilt and dysfunction.”
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Kristin Davis, 60
Image Credit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety Kristin Davis, the 60-year-old star of Sex and the City and And Just Like That…, has been sober since she was 22 years old.
On a 2018 episode of the Origins with James Andrew Miller podcast, the actress credited acting as the key to overcoming her alcohol addiction.
“I don’t think I would be alive,” she said, adding that at one point she didn’t think she’d make it to age 30. “Acting is the only thing that made me want to ever get sober. I didn’t have anything that was that important to me other than trying to dull my senses.”
But Davis told Flow Space in a fall 2025 cover story that maintaining her sobriety takes constant work and that she has to “stay vigilant.”
“I wouldn’t say, ‘Oh, it’s a struggle every day.’ But I remember during COVID—you know, that was some stress, man. And obviously you couldn’t go anywhere, so I’d just be looking at Instagram, and all the moms were drinking a lot. I was jealous of that,” she said. “I didn’t really think like, ‘I’m gonna get in my car and go buy some wine.’ But I did feel like, ‘Oh, gosh. That would be nice. That would be nice—but I can’t do it.’”
She said she’s motivated to stay healthy for her kids.
