8 Celebrities Who Have Overcome Their Fears and Phobias

Discover out what fears these stars overcame…

Jennifer Aniston has handled an “excessive worry of flying” for years, particularly after being on a aircraft that needed to make an emergency touchdown. Whereas she was superstitious about getting onto a aircraft, together with rituals she needed to carry out earlier than getting on board, she underwent hypnotherapy to assist her overcome her fears.  

“I’ve been doing a little hypnosis currently, and one of many necessities is to take away all of these superstitions. I’ve not been doing the suitable hand, proper foot [rituals] — and now it is shockingly good!” she advised Journey + Leisure, including that she additionally plugs into “ meditation” through the flight to assist.

DJ Khaled additionally overcame his worry of flying after the delivery of his son Asahd. The musician defined that the phobia started within the late 2000s when he had a “horrible” expertise on a small aircraft. For a decade, he traveled solely in vehicles and buses — however determined to place worry behind him so he may journey with Asahd. 

“I saved saying, ‘My son goes on a aircraft. Why am I not on a aircraft?’” he advised Forbes. “So instantly I turned fearless.”

Daisy Ridley has lengthy had a worry of open water however determined to beat her worry in order that she may star as ocean-swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle in Younger Girl and the Sea. She says she labored with professionals and used her ardour for the movie to assist get via the robust moments. 

“I don’t just like the open water…I knew that I’d have the assist crucial to coach, and I knew I’d mentally be capable to overcome it regardless that it was tough,” she advised Individuals. “I liked the script, it is a type of issues. Actually, I needed to be a part of the story a lot that even with the worry, I knew I needed to attempt.”

The Weeknd, AKA Abel Tesfaye, used to cope with horrible stage fright. Whereas he admits he acquired nervous earlier than performing, particularly on tv, he says the worry started to subside the extra well-known he turned. He defined that figuring out he had supporters who needed him to do effectively was very encouraging. 

“Now, once I step out on the American Music Awards or on Saturday Evening Stay, I’ve followers,” he advised Billboard in 2016. “Earlier than, I used to be just a few indie R&B singer and I needed to show myself. You could possibly hear a pin drop in a few of these TV stations. Now, folks come out and purchase tickets. I hear them scream my title, so I do know I’ll be positive. They need me to do effectively.”

Andrea Bocelli admits he additionally struggled with debilitating stage fright for years. He referred to as the expertise a “sort of worry that may’t be put into phrases” however defined that he suffered from “vicious palpitations” and “unmanageable anxiousness” all through his live shows. It wasn’t till he met opera singer Maestro Pavarotti and realized that it was his personal imperfect approach that was holding him again.

“After I first rehearsed with this nice artist, I spotted he didn’t wrestle in any respect while I struggled quite a bit. That’s once I figured he had excellent approach. I didn’t,” he stated ​​in Andrea Bocelli: As a result of I Imagine. “In the present day, due to the technical consciousness which I’ve attained via lots of effort…I don’t have that sort of anxiousness anymore.”

Donny Osmond has struggled with social anxiousness for a few years, together with the worry of being in public locations like procuring malls. With a purpose to overcome his worry of malls, he labored with a therapist who eased him in social conditions like returning objects, which “terrified” him. She additionally gave him strategies to assist the anxiousness subside in public locations.

“Public locations like malls at all times frightened me as a result of so many individuals have been there. I might made it a behavior a few years earlier than to stroll from level A to level B as shortly as attainable. After I was an adolescent, if I ever stopped strolling, there was at all times the possibility {that a} crowd would collect. My worry wasn’t about folks or crowds per se, however the truth that I may by no means predict or management what they might suppose or say about me,” he defined in his ebook, Life Is Simply What You Make It. 

Fortunately, Donny says he finally “discovered to giggle together with the folks I at all times feared have been laughing at me.”

After surviving the devastating tsunami in Asia in 2004, Nate Berkus handled a worry of the ocean. By means of the years, he was unable to step foot into the water and unable to play together with his youngsters within the ocean. However in 2021, Nate’s husband Jeremiah Brent shared that Nate had overcome his fears, 17 years after the tragic incident. Jeremiah partially credited residing close to the water in New York with serving to Nate transfer ahead. 

“One of the vital profound and unrecognized components of Nate’s spirit is his energy. I watched my husband, who survived such tragedy and such loss in 2004, stroll our youngsters into the ocean earlier this week,” Jeremiah wrote on Instagram. “He has damaged the chain of worry and wades within the water, stuffed with laughter and stuffed with pleasure. There is no such thing as a one like him.”

After being in a lethal aircraft crash, Travis Barker handled PTSD and suffered from an excessive worry of flying. At instances, he couldn’t even have a look at the sky to see planes flying by and didn’t step foot on an plane for years. However with the assistance of his spouse Kourtney Kardashian, he was lastly in a position to take his first journey in 2021.

“She simply knew, and she or he caught by me and toughed it out. And it was the perfect flight. And I wasn’t scared as soon as,” advised GQ. 

Whereas latest aviation accidents have admittedly precipitated Travis’ PTSD to get “a lot worse,” he’s nonetheless taking flights and dealing via it.