Sleepless beauties: Stars who struggle with insomnia
Sleepless beauties: Stars who struggle with insomnia
Though it might be hard to imagine since the rich and famous seem immune to the problems of mere mortals, even celebrities lie awake at night tossing and turning, unable to sleep. Perhaps even more so than we think, what with their busy schedules and mass amounts of pressure on their shoulders.
Sleep deprivation can be really harmful to your health, but some stars have cultivated quite interesting thoughts from it, while others just wish they could get some z’s. Click through to see which of your favorite stars have struggled with insomnia, and see what they had to say about it.
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George Clooney
In a 2012 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actor admitted that although he’s usually in bed by 10 pm, his racing mind keeps him awake at night. He resorted to sleeping with the TV on.
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George Clooney
By 2017, in another interview with the publication, he said he’d solved his insomnia but the arrival of his twin newborns had thrown a wrench in his sleep schedule all over again.
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Charlize Theron
In an appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ in 2018, the actress admitted that she suffers from “really bad sleep.” She also revealed that edible marijuana has helped her sleep better.
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Rihanna
In the December 2017 issue of Vogue Paris, the star said, “I have a lot of trouble switching off. Even when I get home early, which means before 1 am, I start binge-watching shows or documentaries, which I love. I can’t go straight to bed. As a matter of fact, I only sleep three or four hours a night.”
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Kim Cattrall
In 2015, the ‘Sex and the City’ star had to pull out of a play due to be staged at London’s Royal Court Theatre because of her insomnia. In a BBC interview, Cattrall described her insomnia as “being pinned down by a three-ton gorilla.” She also revealed that she ended up going through cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.
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Kim Cattrall
In the same interview, she shared some of her insomnia diary in which she wrote: “I think I’m losing the ability to think clearly. Words are harder to remember without sleep. I can’t grasp, hold on, to ideas, thoughts, even tasks. … Without sleep, there is no way to wash away the debris that collects.”
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Jennifer Garner
The actress admitted she started having sleeping problems in 2016 and told Vanity Fair that she turned to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to help switch her brain off. “God bless those girls. I used to think I would never watch television on my phone, but there I am.”
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Amy Poehler
The comedian and actress admitted in her book ‘Yes Please’ that she has a bad relationship with sleep. “A good night’s sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work. But I truly suffer at night.”
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Amy Poehler
She continued, “It’s very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am … I now read articles about how great sleep is and how important it is and I cry because I want it so bad and I am so mad at how great everyone else seems to be at it.”
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Jennifer Aniston
In a 2014 appearance on Dr. Oz, Aniston revealed that she struggles to shut down her mind at night, and tried using a sleep tracking app. In 2016, she credited her insomnia to having a “committee in my head” that starts having conversations in the middle of the night.
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Jennifer Aniston
She told The Huffington Post in 2016 that her key tip is “to sleep with my phone at least five feet away from me.” She added that she does a quick meditation before she gets into bed, as well as some yoga poses that help relax her. “But the biggest thing is the electronics shutdown, ideally an hour before I turn off the lights.”
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Madonna
In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, Madonna said that she had been living with insomnia for decades. She also admitted, however, to regularly staying in the recording studio until 2 am and getting up at 7 am for her children.
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Christina Applegate
In a 2017 interview with SELF, the actress reported that she has been living with insomnia for almost 20 years and said she gets as little as three hours of sleep each night. She partnered with the Why So Awake? website and sleep awareness program to help others recognize and address their problem.
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Natalie Portman
The actress and mother told Harper’s Bazaar in 2017, “I fall asleep easily, but I don’t stay asleep very long,” adding that when you have young kids you become accustomed to waking up at every small sound.
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Pete Wentz
The Fall Out Boy musician has spoken various times about his insomnia, including tweeting, “Sometimes late at night I realize this planet doesn’t belong to me. I also don’t belong to it. I wish I had recycled it more and me less.”
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Roseanne Barr
The actress famously blamed the sleeping pill Ambien, a treatment option for acute insomnia, for a racist tweet that led to the loss of her starring role in ‘Roseanne.’
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Martha Stewart
The famed TV personality told USA Today in 2013 that her remedy for insomnia is a herbaceous bedtime beverage and focusing on breathing. She added, “The worst thing you can do when you can’t sleep is to start stressing about the fact that you’re awake and unable to fall back asleep. Such thoughts only stimulate your brain, delaying sleep onset that much more.”
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Rachel McAdams
On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!‘ in 2013, the actress told a story about how she was struggling with sleeping and her local grocer gave her some marijuana. Unfortunately, she said she took “the tiniest teaspoon” then started hallucinating in bed, hearing opera singing in her head for five hours.
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Lady Gaga
The singer has spoken about her sleep struggles various times, and the reasons vary: in 2013 she revealed that she can’t sleep when making music because she gets so excited, and in 2015 she shared on Instagram that her thoughts stop her from sleeping.
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Joni Mitchell
“A lot of my insomnia comes from—I can’t sleep until it’s light outside. I am scared of the dark, but I’m so used to being scared of the dark that I don’t even notice it,” the singer wrote in ‘Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words.’
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Miley Cyrus
In the October 2016 issue of Elle, the star admitted that she was struggling with insomnia because of her fame: “For a long time, I couldn’t sleep because I just felt so guilty.” On a positive note, this led to her trying to do more through the Happy Hippie Foundation.
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Betty White
On ‘Piers Morgan Tonight‘ in 2012, the actress said she only needs around four or five hours of sleep. “But sleeping is sort of dull,” she added. “There’s a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.”
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Mariah Carey
In a 2002 interview with The Guardian, the singer discussed her recent breakdown. “The bottom line is that I was severely exhausted. I’ve always had trouble with insomnia. It’s more falling asleep than staying asleep,” she said, explaining that she had no time to unwind.
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Renée Zellweger
In 2005, the actress told W magazine that because of her busy schedule, she often didn’t have time for sleep, especially on promotional tours in different countries. “Your body doesn’t quite register that you’re supposed to eat at a certain time, or that it’s time to sleep.”
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Rob Lowe
The actor hilariously admitted on The Ellen Show in 2018 that his partner is the reason for his lack of sleep. “I sleep better on the road because I’m not with my wife. And it’s just that people, it’s the truth,” he said.
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Roxane Gay
The famed writer wrote about her insomnia on her site in 2010: “I’ve tried all sorts of things—going to bed early, shrouding myself in absolute darkness, Nyquil, Benadryl, melatonin, wine, exercise, counting, reading, listening to music, having my back rubbed, dancing in a figure eight while pounding my chest, prayer, deep thinking, drum circles, whatever.”
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Christiane Amanpour
The famed reporter told The Cut in 2018 that being alert to all the worrisome parts of the world eats into her sleep. “But I detox in the bedroom, so to speak. I don’t have a TV, I don’t bring my laptop, I don’t look at the screen just before I go to bed. I read something before bed in a book or magazine.”
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Indra Nooyi
The former PepsiCo CEO told Fortune in 2012, “They say sleep is a gift that God gives you. That’s one gift I was never given.”
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Chuck Palahniuk
Well-known for writing ‘Fight Club,’ about a protagonist who suffers from insomnia, the author shared his theory with The Guardian that writers are inspired by things that are related to shock or suffering, and that insomnia was the suffering for him that inspired his greatest novel.
See also: Celebrity secrets for a good night’s sleep.
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