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 airplane that needed to make an emergency touchdown. Whereas she was once superstitious about getting onto a airplane, 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 currently, and one of many necessities is to take away all of these superstitions. I’ve not been doing the fitting hand, proper foot [rituals] — and now it is shockingly good!” she informed Journey + Leisure, including that she additionally plugs into “a great meditation” in the course of the flight to assist.

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

“I saved saying, ‘My son goes on a airplane. Why am I not on a airplane?’” he informed 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 the robust moments. 

“I don’t just like the open water…I knew that I might have the assist mandatory to coach, and I knew I might mentally be capable to overcome it regardless that it was tough,” she informed 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 attempt.”

The Weeknd, AKA Abel Tesfaye, used to cope with horrible stage fright. Whereas he admits he bought 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 wished him to do nicely was very encouraging. 

“Now, once I step out on the American Music Awards or on Saturday Night time Reside, I’ve followers,” he informed Billboard in 2016. “Earlier than, I used to be just a few indie R&B singer and I needed to show myself. You might hear a pin drop in a few of these TV stations. Now, individuals come out and purchase tickets. I hear them scream my title, so I do know I’ll be nice. They need me to do nicely.”

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 anxiousness” all through his concert events. It wasn’t till he met opera singer Maestro Pavarotti and realized that it was his personal imperfect method 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 so much. That’s once I figured he had good method. I didn’t,” he mentioned ​​in Andrea Bocelli: As a result of I Consider. “At this time, due to the technical consciousness which I’ve attained by quite a lot of effort…I don’t have that form 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 view 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 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 shortly as potential. After I was a teen, if I ever stopped strolling, there was all the time the prospect {that a} crowd would collect. My worry wasn’t about individuals or crowds per se, however the truth that I might by no means predict or management what they might assume or say about me,” he defined in his guide, Life Is Simply What You Make It. 

Fortunately, Donny says he finally “discovered to snigger together with the individuals 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 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 dwelling close to the water in New York with serving to Nate transfer ahead. 

“Probably the most profound and unrecognized components of Nate’s spirit is his power. 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 isn’t any one like him.”

After being in a lethal airplane crash, Travis Barker handled PTSD and suffered from an excessive worry of flying. At occasions, 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 capable of 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,” informed GQ. 

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