Entertainment: The Tough Lives of Celebrities

In today’s culture people are obsessed with entertainment and celebrity. They often go out to the cinema to see blockbuster films that star their favorite actor or actresses. Most people’s ambitions are to be celebrities as what they read in magazines and see on the TV leads them to believe that the life of a celebrity is all glamor and fame. What they don’t seem to realize is that there is a dark side to being a celebrity. If you look at the most recent case of Heath Leger you will see a young actor who had the world at his feet but died due to prescription drugs. Many people were devastated at this actor’s untimely death and a beautiful memorial was set up in his name.

Other actors and celebrities that have died through out the years often hold a common problem; stress of the job. What people don’t see is the amount of hours that a celebrity must put in to their work to be able to produce such amazing films or music. Their lives are often very lonely as the fear of commitment and paranoia about someone reveling all about them makes them very unlikely to date anyone out of their profession. But when they do date someone within their profession they often find it becomes a battle of vanity and who is the more popular, who is the more famous. Celebrity marriages often don’t last past seven years but there have been the odd exceptions and the marriages have lasted a lifetime. These couples keep it “real” and are not pretentious in their relationships, nor are they tempted of the life of drugs and sordid affairs with “groupies”.

Also being followed by the press so much and the stories that they make up about them often hurts and sometimes destroys their families. A celebrity’s inner circle is often their inner sanctuary with only a small handful of people that truly know the stars for who they are in the “real” world. This makes their lives very un-normal they are unable to trust anyone including sometimes their own families. Dark secrets or skeletons in their cupboards often haunt them making them unable to form relationships in their new lifestyles. Most celebrities are often propelled into the limelight very quickly and find the transition from their normal family lives to constantly speculated and viewed lifestyles. These lifestyles often start with parties and press interviews that are all good fun and laughter at first. Many celebrities stick together and they are often swept into a world that is filled with alcohol and often drugs. Drugs can be very quickly become addictive and cause momentum problems that are not just health related. They often lead to premature death of the actor or actress. Many actors and actresses have at some point of their career been into a clinic where they have beaten drink, drug or other psychological and emotional problems. Addiction can not always be about drugs or alcohol it can be sexual, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and other depressive problems caused by the isolation becoming a celebrity can bring.