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

DJ Khaled additionally overcame his worry of flying after the start 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 completely in automobiles and buses — however determined to place worry behind him so he might journey with Asahd. 

“I stored 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 might 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 by means of the robust moments. 

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

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

“Now, once I step out on the American Music Awards or on Saturday Night time Reside, 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 possibly can hear a pin drop in a few of these TV stations. Now, folks come out and purchase tickets. I hear them scream my identify, so I do know I’ll be fantastic. 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 “form of worry that may’t be put into phrases” however defined that he suffered from “vicious palpitations” and “unmanageable nervousness” all through his concert events. It wasn’t till he met opera singer Maestro Pavarotti and realized that it was his personal imperfect approach that was holding him again.

“Once I first rehearsed with this nice artist, I noticed he didn’t battle in any respect while I struggled loads. 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, because of the technical consciousness which I’ve attained by means of lots of effort…I don’t have that form of nervousness anymore.”

Donny Osmond has struggled with social nervousness for a few years, together with the worry of being in public locations like buying malls. So as 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 nervousness subside in public locations.

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

Fortunately, Donny says he finally “realized to giggle together with the folks I all the time feared had been laughing at me.”

After surviving the devastating tsunami in Asia in 2004, Nate Berkus handled a worry of the ocean. Via the years, he was unable to step foot into the water and unable to play together with his kids 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 dwelling close to the water in New York with serving to Nate transfer ahead. 

“Probably the most profound and unrecognized elements of Nate’s spirit is his power. I watched my husband, who survived such tragedy and such loss in 2004, stroll our kids 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 he or she caught by me and toughed it out. And it was the most effective flight. And I wasn’t scared as soon as,” advised GQ. 

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