Celebs in Rehab

Ben Affleck checked into rehab in 2001 for alcohol addiction -- with the help of Charlie Sheen. The mind reels.  (Toby Canham/Getty Images)

Eminem had two stints trying to kick prescription drugs: first in a regular rehab center, then in a hospital. The effort was rewarded when he released his newest album, “Recovery,” which made many lists of the year’s best.  (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Singer and former “Dancing With the Stars” competitor Aaron Carter checked himself into rehab to “heal some emotional and spiritual issues he was dealing with,” according to his manager. His family was a little more candid, saying Aaron was battling “addiction issues.”  (John M. Heller/Getty Images)

Singer Keith Urban famously checked into rehab only four months after marrying Nicole Kidman, but that was actually his third stint. Nicole staged an intervention, Keith told Oprah Winfrey, and that’s what sent him to treatment for the final time.  (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

After Mel Gibson was arrested for DUI in 2006 -- and after his anti-Semitic and sexist tirade were leaked -- he checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse. His image rehab hit a snag after his girlfriend released tapes of him threatening her and making racist remarks.  (Angela Weiss/Getty Images)

Singer Britney Spears was exhibiting increasingly erratic behavior in 2007, culminating with her walking into a salon and shaving her own head. She entered rehab soon thereafter -- and left a day after that. Eventually she completed a month’s stay in treatment, and has been in and out of hospitals ever since.  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

After an arrest for shoplifting $5000 worth of merchandise, starlet Winona Ryder was sentenced to rehab for addiction to pain killers.  (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

‘70s pop star Leif Garrett was sentenced to rehab in 2010 after being arrested for heroin possession in Los Angeles. He decided to go the “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” route, and claims that the shows producers encouraged him to use drugs before he checked in. “They asked to get some footage of me using, and I said, ‘I haven’t been using,’” he recalled. “They said, ‘We really have to get footage of you using.’ Anyway, I was easily talked into showing them.” The producers deny the allegation.  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

In 2005, photos of model Kate Moss using cocaine were published in London newspaper the Daily Mirror. Afterwards, Moss lost most of her modeling contracts and entered rehab in Phoenix, Arizona for a one-month stay. Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images  (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

Jesse James checked into rehab soon after the news of his affair broke, in an effort to repair his marriage with Sandra Bullock. It didn’t work: Bullock filed for divorce, and James went on to marry tattoo artist Kat von D.  (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Winehouse’s career has been sometimes been overshadowed by her tabloid foils. Winehouse has reportedly been in-and-out of rehab a number of times over the past few years. Some of the results have been better than others, but it’s still become expected that a Winehouse concert could be canceled. Here’s hoping another album comes out sooner rather than later, so the only “Rehab” associated with Winehouse is the song.  (AFP/Getty Images)

The tales of Ozzy’s drug and alcohol abuse are legendary, so it’s no surprise that he’s been to the Betty Ford Center. What is surprising is how he got there: Wife Sharon told him it was a place where they teach you to drink properly. He checked in and asked where to find the bar: “I thought it was going to be guys in smoking jackets and bow-ties with one leg crossed over the other, leaning against the bar, now stir the olive in your martini, take a sip, curl your mustache and then have a ciggy (cigarette) - like a school of drinking,” he told Contact Music. He was quickly informed of his error.  (Stuart Wilson/Getty Images)

After being arrested for possession of a controlled substance in 2003 -- police found heroin in her car -- Nicole Richie checked herself into a rehab center in Arizona. She has since been hospitalized for what her reps say is dehydration and low blood sugar, but she says she’s committed to sobriety. “I was the one that put myself in rehab,” Richie told Ryan Seacrest in 2005. “And, if I had a problem, then I would take care of it.”  (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Hard-partying guitar god Eddie Van Halen checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse in 2007, just days before the band was due to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  (Chris Walter/WireImage)

The “7th Heaven” and “Party of Five” star checked himself into rehab for addition to painkillers in 2009. A year later, he claimed he’d been kidnapped and forced to use drugs. This claim was eventually vindicated in court, but London still decided to check into “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.”  (hos Robinson/Getty Images for TFF)

The self-proclaimed “first supermodel” checked into “Celebrity Rehab” to deal with an addiction to anti-anxiety meds brought on by her abusive childhood. She fell apart several times on the show, but Dr. Drew Pinsky told TV Guide she is now doing well.  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Actor Robert Downey Jr. claims to have struggled with drug addiction since the age of eight. In 1996, Downey was arrested for possession of cocaine, heroin and an unloaded gun. From 1996 to 2001, Downey entered a series of treatment facilities, only to relapse and continue substance abuse. Since going through a rehabilitation program in 2001, Downey has had no other reported problems with drug abuse. Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images  (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Elton John checking into rehab in 1990 to deal with drug addiction and bulimia. He had to come to a center in Chicago because at that time, there was no place in Los Angeles that would treat both issues simultaneously. ¿¿¿I couldn¿¿¿t believe it,¿¿¿ he told the Chicago Sun-Times. ¿¿¿I was thinking, ¿¿¿You mean, I finally decide to seek help and they¿¿¿re telling me no one will accept me?¿¿¿¿¿¿  (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Legendary comic John Belushi had an equally legendary relationship with drugs and alcohol. Despite checking into rehab several times, he died of a drug overdose in 1982.  (Chris Walter/WireImage)

In 2000, singer Whitney Houston was detained in Keahole-Kona International Airport in Hawaii for possession of marijuana. Two years later, Houston confessed to reporter Diane Sawyer that she had struggled addictions to marijuana, prescription drugs and cocaine. In 2004, Houston was admitted to a drug rehabilitation center for five days, and was later readmitted in 2005. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Maureen McCormick went into rehab for addiction to cocaine and quaaludes in the mid-’80s. She was able to put those lessons from rehab to good when she appeared on the Comedy Central roast of Larry the Cable Guy.  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Noble Awards)

‘70s star MacKenzie Phillips was arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin in 2008, and sentenced to a drug rehab program. She completed the program and her probation, but she also appeared in the third season of “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.”  (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)