River Phoenix’s Ex Martha Plimpton Makes Rare Observation About Romance
Emmy winner Martha Plimpton, who dated Joaquin Phoenix’s brother River Phoenix for four years sooner than his 1993 loss of life, shared her tips on the dull actor and the influence of their ragged relationship.
Martha Plimpton is reflecting fondly on her ex River Phoenix.
The Raising Hope actress—who dated the dull actor for four years within the ‘80s and ‘90s—explained that she remained shut mates with him unless his premature loss of life in 1993 at the age of 23.
“When we did break up in a roundabout way, we did live mates,” Martha mentioned on the July 17 episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s On Me podcast. “We were one another's first savor. That relationship by no way primarily goes away. Which that it is possible you’ll maybe presumably't ever let something esteem that scamper. It's moral too crucial and too altering.”
Emphasizing the influence of their relationship, the Emmy winner—who starred alongside River within the 1986 movie The Mosquito Flee and 1988’s Operating on Empty—added, “It's a enormous part of who I’m. So yeah, of path we stayed mates.”
Martha also detailed the difficulties that the Oscar nominee—who died as a results of acute more than one drug intoxication—confronted as a results of his stardom.
“Repute changed into primarily laborious on River,” the 54-year-susceptible persevered. “He primarily didn't know what to invent with all of that. He wanted to invent correct, however the contradictions of [Hollywood] were too complex.”
“It got more durable as we got older and River grew to alter into more famed,” she persevered. “He changed into no longer as geared up as maybe some folk might maybe perchance maybe be to take care of that stuff because he changed into, at coronary heart, very innocent and a pushed-by-savor human being.”
No topic his struggles, even supposing, Martha explained that River changed into perpetually supported by her, his brother Joaquin Phoenix and his family.
“He changed into fortunate to delight in me and his family. His brothers and sisters,” she mentioned. “His illness changed into incredibly complex for him to retain watch over on his personal and he by no way primarily got the abet that I assume he would delight in performed amazingly well with.”
Martha added, “If he had gotten that abet, I assume he would had been a whimsical suggest for sobriety and for folk struggling with dependancy. Sadly, it got him sooner than he had an different to invent that.”
And within the wake of his absence, the actress tearfully noted, “I miss him each and each day. On every day basis.”
Be taught on for more stars who had been birth about their experiences with dependancy and sobriety.
Jason Biggs
In October 2018, the American Pie wide title launched he changed into twelve months sober in a celebratory and encouraging Instagram post.
“I first tried to get sober over 5 years within the past, when the weight of my obsession with booze and treatment grew to alter into too heavy for me to take care of,” he wrote at the time. “Looks this s–t is laborious.”
He persevered, “After some fits and starts, I’ve managed to effect collectively twelve months of sobriety. I’m as happy with it as something in my lifestyles. Whilst you’re struggling, know there’s abet. Don’t be ashamed. We are in a position to invent this.”
Years later, he mirrored on his drag with dependancy and the lengths he went to cowl the his wrestle.
“I’m going to treatment and ‘working on things’ however meanwhile I’m leaving treatment, having moral had a correct session, and I’m going to the liquor retailer and searching for out a fifth of vodka, drinking it after which driving dwelling,” he mentioned on a March 2024 episode of his wife Jenny Mollen's All the Fails podcast. “I knew the fashion to get wasted enough to where I took myself out of the lifestyles equation, took myself out of the present, didn’t have to connect in a fashion that made me primarily feel things.”
He added, “I had it figured out to a T. To no longer get too under the influence of alcohol where I couldn’t delight in a dialog with you. I changed into changing these bottles within the bar your total time.”
Ashlyn Harris
The two-time FIFA Ladies's World Cup champ has been birth about her misuse of Adderall whereas struggling with injuries all the way thru her college soccer profession.
“I changed into getting primarily carefully addicted to Adderall and misusing it,” she mentioned on a 2025 episode of the Query The entirety with Danielle Robay podcast. “I changed into taking it your total time. I’d scamper days without slumbering. It changed into wild. I felt esteem I changed into gonna give myself a coronary heart attack. I changed into crushing it. I changed into snorting it. It changed into so problematic.”
However, within the course of her wrestle, her college coach Anson Dorrance changed into there to bolster her.
“It got primarily, primarily sad and I had to create some severe adjustments,” she explained, “and Anson would delight in me be taught books. I started discovering out this e book known as[[Man’s Search] for Which way and it's about struggling and reframing it and it changed my lifestyles.”
Jax Taylor
The Valley wide title shared his decades-long fight with treatment in March 2025 after going to rehab.
“I’m coming out that I'm an addict,” Jax shared all the way thru the March 4 episode of Bravo's Sizzling Mic podcast. “I delight in substance components, primarily with cocaine. It’s laborious to snarl out loud.”
“I’ve been going thru this on and off since I changed into 23 and now I’m forty five,” he persevered. “There changed into cases where I’d kill doing it however then there had been cases where I’d scamper heavy on it.”
Jax also gave up drinking, explaining, “I don’t necessarily assume I delight in an alcohol danger, however the two scamper hand in hand. I’m in a position to’t invent cocaine without drinking. So, I moral gave up each and each. I’m proud to snarl I’m 82, 83 days sober correct now, which is the longest I’ve ever long past in my lifestyles without either.”
Tom Holland
The Spider-Man: No Methodology Home wide title stopped drinking alcohol in 2022 after feeling “enslaved” to the drink. “I changed into indubitably addicted to alcohol, no longer shying a ways off from that in any appreciate,” Holland recalled on the On Cause with Jay Shetty podcast. “I assume that anyone that has a beer everyday has doubtlessly got a cramped bit bit of a recount.”
“And then that it is possible you’ll maybe moral reach that 2d where you're esteem 'Wow, I shouldn't delight in had that final beer,'” the actor persevered. “And likewise you wake up day after nowadays and that it is possible you’ll maybe delight in a dreadful headache.”
Since making the technique to life exchange, Holland noticed he “might maybe perchance maybe sleep better” and “take care of concerns better.”
“Issues that might maybe perchance maybe scamper defective on dwelling that might maybe perchance maybe mechanically dwelling me off, I could maybe perchance maybe steal in my walk,” he shared. “I had so grand such better mental readability. I felt more fit. I felt fitter.”
Alec 1st earl baldwin of bewdley
The wide title of Hunt for Purple October does no longer on the final dispute to his sobriety drag, which started nearly forty years within the past.
“I don't discuss this loads,” he mentioned all the way thru a Would possibly also 2024 podcast appearance. “I discuss it each and each now after which when it makes sense. I'm 39 years sober. I got sober Feb. 23, 1985.”
Speaking about his lifestyles after consuming from Contemporary York City to Los Angeles in 1983, Alec explained, “I had a white-scorching danger each and each day for 2 years. I assume I snorted a line of cocaine from here to Saturn. We took it support dwelling. I mean, cocaine changed into esteem coffee support then. Everyone changed into doing it all day long.”
And after quitting the drug, he quickly grew to alter into to alcohol—easiest to also stop that dependency.
On the present time, he relies on the city spherical him.
“Contemporary York relaxes me,” he shared of his dwelling. “I crawl spherical and I look aspects of it that I've by no way considered sooner than. I'll assume about at a constructing and I'll scamper, 'My God, I by no way noticed that about that constructing, these doorways.' I delight in lunches and occasional and my mates.”
Anne Hathaway
The Princess Diaries alum shared in April 2024 that she is more than five years sober. As she urged the Contemporary York Times, “That feels esteem a milestone to me.”
Her reasoning changed into resolute. “I knew deep down it wasn't for me,” she shared. “And it moral felt so inaccurate to have to snarl, 'But none?' But none. Whilst you're allergic to something or delight in an anaphylactic response to something, you don't argue with it. So I accomplished arguing with it.”
And she or he's pleased she made that resolution. “My personal expertise with it is miles that the total lot is better,” she persevered. “For me, it changed into wallowing gasoline. And I don't esteem to wallow.”
Demi Moore
While accepting the 2018 Lady of the Year Award by the Peggy Albrecht Friendly Home, a residential program for ladies getting better from substance and alcohol abuse, Moore spoke relating to the “self-unfavorable path” that in relation to derailed her profession.
“I primarily feel esteem there's a defining moments in our lives that shape who we are and the route we scamper and early in my profession, I changed into spiraling down a path of right self-destruction and without reference to what successes I had, I moral by no way felt correct enough,” the wide title recalled. “I had fully no value for myself and this self-unfavorable path, it in a transient time brought me to a right disaster level and it wasn't determined at the time the motive. Possibly it changed into divine intervention.”
Moore, who sought treatment in 2012, thanked two unnamed folk she “barely knew” for turning in something of an ultimatum to her to flip her lifestyles spherical. “Until I changed into ineffective, I better demonstrate up,” she quipped, adding that she changed into given “an different to redirect the path of my lifestyles sooner than I destroyed the total lot.”
“Clearly they saw more of me than I saw of myself,” Moore noted. “And I'm so grateful because without that different, without their believing me, I wouldn't be standing here as we dispute time.”
Noah Cyrus
Cyrus shared in 2022 that she's been in recovery for her Xanax dependancy since 2020. “It gave me so grand structure within the time that I primarily wanted structure, because I didn't are searching to moral be sitting spherical and stirring in my mind,” she urged Rolling Stone. “It gave me hope.”
The singer added, “As soon as I felt that it changed into imaginable to silence things out for a 2d and numb your disaster, it changed into over.”
She mentioned her mates at the time “more or much less cosigned” her drug exercise and “it moral more or much less turns into this sad pit, bottomless pit.” But, all the way thru the pandemic, Cyrus mentioned she changed into noticing challenges and felt she wasn't emotionally present. “I changed into fully nodding off and falling asleep,” she recalled. “And unable to preserve my head up or retain my eyes birth, because I changed into to this level long past.”
She in a roundabout way sought abet and noted that “it took some time to get on my very personal two toes.”
Dax Shepard
The Parenthood alum changed into sober for 16 years sooner than relapsing in 2020 by taking Vicodin after a bike accident.
“For the final eight weeks maybe, I don't primarily know…I'm on them all day,” he mentioned on his Armchair Professional podcast. “And I'm allowed to be on them at some dosage because I delight in a prescription after which I'm also augmenting that.”
“And I hate it,” he persevered. “And I'm lying to folk. And I know I have to forestall. But my tolerance is going up so speedy that I'm now in a recount where I'm taking, you know, eight 30s a day, and I know that's an amount that's going to lead to a relatively immoral withdrawal. And I originate getting primarily disquieted, and I'm beginning to primarily feel primarily lonely. And I moral delight in this mountainous secret.”
Jamie Lee Curtis
In 2018, the Halloween wide title got very candid about her 10-year dependancy to opiates, which started within the dull '80s after a minor plastic surgical operation “for my hereditary puffy eyes.” The reslt changed into a prescription that changed her lifestyles. “I had a 10-year high-tail, stealing, conniving,” she urged Of us. “No person knew. No person.”
When her sister visited her within the summer season of 1998 and brought along prescribed painkillers for a rib damage, Curtis mentioned she hit her rock backside. “I knew she had them in her suitcase in our customer room closet,” she urged the publication, crying at the memory. “I generally took all her opiates. When she changed into leaving I knew she would pack her suitcase and score her pills missing. I knew I had to acknowledge to her what I had performed, and so I wrote her a demonstrate and left it on her suitcase. I came dwelling that day, and she effect her fingers spherical me and urged me she cherished me and she changed into fascinated about me and she changed into unwilling to confirm me wreck myself.”
She attended her first meeting on Feb. 3, 1999, the identical day she printed her wrestle to her filmmaker husband Christopher Visitor. “He changed into incredulous that he'd by no way noticed,” Curtis mentioned, adding that she's been sober ever since.
Drew Barrymore
Barrymore, who beforehand went to rehab for alcohol and drug dependancy, shared in 2021 that she changed into marking a mountainous milestone in her drag. “I'm moral going to snarl something for the first time in a in point of fact very long time: I delight in no longer had a drink of alcohol in two and a half years,” she mentioned on CBS Mornings. “And it changed into something that I noticed moral did no longer lend a hand me in my lifestyles.”
She added, “It's so humorous. When we demonstrate ourselves and our truths and the things we've labored so laborious for, it's so freeing and susceptible all at the identical time.”
Barrymore later explained to the Los Angeles Times that she doesn't exercise the “sober” designate because she doesn't desire folk to assume she's “some ultimate Puritan.”
“I saved thinking, ‘I'll master this. I'll resolve it out,'” she mentioned in 2023. “And finally, I moral realized: ‘You've by no way mastered this, and you by no way will.'”
Bradley Cooper
The A Neatly-known individual Is Born actor struggled with a cocaine dependancy all the way thru the early aughts sooner than friend Will Arnett stepped in and confronted him out about his habits.
“That changed into the first time I ever realized I had a recount with treatment and alcohol,” Cooper recalled all the way thru a 2022 appearance on the Smartless podcast. “I'll moral by no way neglect it.”
Crediting Arnett as “the motive” he went sober, Cooper added, “He took that likelihood of having a laborious dialog with me that effect me on a path of deciding to alter my lifestyles.”
Brad Pitt
The Strive towards Club wide title spent years struggling with alcohol sooner than Cooper helped him get sober. “I got sober attributable to this guy,” he urged the viewers at the 2020 Nationwide Board of Overview Annual Awards after Cooper presented him with a trophy. “And each and each day's been happier ever since.”
Ryan Phillippe
In September 2023, the Merciless Intentions alum shared on Instagram that this changed into “the longest I've long past since I changed into a teen without some more or much less nicotine or marijuana in my system (among other things).”
“Feeling grateful for the liberty that comes with breaking addictions and dependency on substance,” he added. “Sobriety, readability, and non secular connectedness feels right correct.”
Demi Lovato
After publicly celebrating six years of sobriety on tour in 2018, the singer unnerved fans later that very same year with the beginning of the confessional single “Sober,” which printed that she had relapsed.
“Mama, I'm so sorry I'm no longer sober anymore / And Daddy please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the ground / To folk who by no way left me / We've been down this avenue sooner than I'm so sorry, I'm no longer sober anymore,” she sang.
A month later, Lovato changed into hospitalized for a shut to-deadly overdose.
“I delight in continuously been clear about my drag with dependancy,” she wrote on Instagram two weeks later. “What I've realized is that this illness is no longer something that disappears or fades with time. It’s miles something I have to continue to beat and delight in no longer performed yet…I now want time to heal and concentrate on my sobriety and avenue to recovery. The savor that it is possible you’ll delight in all shown me might maybe perchance maybe no longer ever be forgotten and I assume about forward to the day where I’m in a position to snarl I came out on the different aspect. I will retain combating.”
Jada Pinkett Smith
In 2018, she recalled struggling with her addictions to sex and alcohol. “My form of addictions jump. They jump spherical. After I changed into youthful, I indubitably assume I had a sex dependancy of some kind, yes, that the total lot will be fastened by sex,” she mentioned, sooner than sharing relating to the time she realized she'd developed a troubling drinking danger.
“I take into accout reaching a rock backside that point I changed into within the house on my very personal and I had these two bottles of wine and changed into going for the third bottle,” she mentioned. “And I changed into esteem, ‘Now retain up. You're within the this dwelling by your self going onto your third bottle of wine? Which that it is possible you’ll maybe presumably want a recount.'”
“So I went chilly turkey. That's the ingredient about me: I’m in a position to head chilly turkey. I’m a binger, and I continuously have to verify myself and I’m in a position to moral get titillating about things,” she persevered. “It's no longer what you're doing however the fashion you're with it. Why you're doing it. It's the habits that's hooked up to it because whenever you would esteem to delight in quite just a few sex, that's wide, however why are you having all that sex? That's what you've got to assume about at.”
AJ Mclean
The Backstreet Boys member tried treatment for the first time sooner than filming the music video for 2000's “The Name,” telling Appropriate Morning The United States years later that he “changed into off the partitions” all the way thru the shoot. He got sober in 2021 and saw quite just a few definite advantages moral twelve months later, at the side of losing 32 kilos in seven months by reducing out alcohol and speedy food.
“Inspiring precipitated weight create,” he urged On the present time in September 2022, “however it surely also weighed down my mental divulge.”
Bow Wow
After the unexpected loss of life of Mac Miller, the rapper—born Shad Moss—took to Twitter to let his fans know that he'd once struggled with a cough syrup dependancy.
“To the childhood- Discontinuance with these dreary ass treatment,” he started his series of tweets. “Im going to let something out. When me and Omarion labored on FACE OFF album. I changed into excessive off lean everyday! When yall saw me on BET going off on Torae i changed into excessive off lean. My perspective the total lot changed. My fans started to…Flip on me my family too. I by no way promoted lean in my songs. On a abnormal basis i changed into on the UCP tour with Chris [[Brown]I WAS SIPPING 4's atleast 7 cases a day. I changed into addicted unless our demonstrate in Cincinnati.. i came off stg and passed out woke up within the clinical institution i changed into having withdraws.”
“I by no way felt a disaster esteem that ever,” Bow Wow persevered. “It changed into summer season however i changed into strolling spherical with 3 hoodies on because i changed into so chilly. I overlooked the chicago demonstrate of that tour baltimore demonstrate BECAUSE I WAS F–KING HIGH AND SICK!!!! that s–t is no longer frosty and that i changed into doing it to be frosty! Kick that s–t! Be a correct son or daughter. Be the most easy you. Ima originate being more vocal. We gotta put the childhood from going out early. Fogeys verify your kids. Suppose to them. We desire yall to are dwelling man. I nearly died f–king with syrup.”
“To within the meanwhile im affected my abdominal will…By no way be the identical and it hasnt been. DRUG FREE IS THE WAY TO BE! smarten up tighten up out here,” he urged his fans. “We cant lose no more of you. No longer one! I primarily esteem all yall. The younger artist your total kids at some stage within the realm.. dont prepare a vogue. Spoil the cycle. PEACE.”
Lily Allen
With the twin releases of her fourth studio album No Disgrace and memoir My Thoughts Precisely, the singer spent grand of 2018 getting brutally gorgeous relating to the kill of her addition concerns. Basically based completely totally on Allen, she changed into abusing cocaine and drinking to the level of being “parisitically under the influence of alcohol. In a roundabout way, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin staged an intervention after she by likelihood headbutted Orlando Bloom at Kate Hudson's Halloween occasion and knocked herself out.
She urged The Guardian, “Nothing perceived to be triumphant in or fulfill me. I take into accout waking up one morning in these sad days thinking, ‘Possibly it's time for heroin, because nothing else is working.'”
Dennis Quaid
The Parent Trap actor battled a cocaine dependancy at some stage within the '80s that sent him to rehab in 1990. As he later explained on On the present time, he grew up within the '60s and '70s when “there changed into an fully diverse perspective” in direction of the drug.
“It changed into even in some movie budgets. I changed into generally doing cocaine relatively grand on a day-to-day basis all the way thru the '80s,” he admitted in 2018. “I spent many, many a evening screaming at God to 'Please steal this a ways off from me and I'll by no way invent it another time, trigger I've easiest got an hour sooner than I have to be at work.' Then at 4 o'clock within the afternoon I'd scamper, 'Oh it's no longer so immoral.'”
“I had what I call a white light expertise where I saw myself either ineffective or losing the total lot that intended something to me,” he persevered. He had to take a seat down down down then-fiancée Meg Ryan and demonstrate what changed into occurring. Then, he sought abet. “That changed into the kill of the savor affair with me and cocaine.”
Ryan Lochte
After an incident in Newport Sea roam where the Olympic swimmer tried to kick in his personal hotel room door, Lochte made the resolution to survey treatment in 2018. “Ryan has been struggling with from alcohol dependancy for deal of years and unfortunately it has change into a unfavorable sample for him,” his regain urged E! Files in a statement. “He has acknowledged that he wants reliable assistance to beat his danger and have to be getting abet straight away.”
“Ryan knows that conquering this disease now is a have to for him to steer determined of constructing future unhappy selections, to be the most easy husband and father he might maybe perchance maybe be, and if he wishes to get his draw to return to dominance within the pool in his fifth Olympics in Tokyo in 2020,” the statement concluded.
Jason Ritter
Though the Parenthood alum knows that “one amongst the things that you just're no longer supposed to invent is get sober for anyone else,” his relationship with now-wife Melanie Lynskey changed into a main motive that led him to swearing off alcohol.
“At a degree, I knew how unbelievable she changed into and I believed she would be inconceivable for anyone who deserved her,” he explained all the way thru a March 2023 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Masks, “and I didn't primarily feel esteem I changed into that individual. I felt a cramped bit bit too loopy.”
However, as Ritter noted to E! Files, he now sees that sobriety is in a roundabout way a personal different.
“It changed into less complicated for me to snarl that I'm doing it for her because, at that point, I didn't primarily feel esteem I changed into form of value grand,” he recalled of the early days of their relationship. “I didn't care as grand about hurting myself as I did about hurting her. So, at the muse it changed into less complicated for me to snarl, 'I'm doing this for her.' And now, I'm doing it for myself.”
Brantley Gilbert
The country wide title has been sober for in relation to a decade, however it surely changed into a laborious-fought avenue getting there. His dependancy to alcohol and disaster pills started quickly after graduating from excessive college and didn't abate when his profession started to steal off. He saved a dark leather-based completely pc receive stuffed with bottles of Jagermeister or vodka “at arm's reach in any appreciate cases,” he urged beforehand printed to Of us, adding that at some stage within the day, “each and each hour and a half to 2 hours it'd be time to get two or three correct pulls on the bottle. And each and each three or four hours it's time for a pill or two.”
And it had no develop on his success. “It wasn't esteem I changed into stumbling spherical all day,” he admitted. “I changed into fully functioning — I wrote more songs then than I invent now. That changed into the provoking part.”
In dull 2011, he changed into hospitalized with pancreatitis and changed into urged that if he didn't kill drinking, he wouldn't glance his subsequent birthday. “I restful effect it off and changed into searching to sluggish down on my very personal, esteem, 'All correct I'm easiest gonna let myself steal two pills as we dispute time. I'm easiest gonna drink this grand of my bottle and create a mark on the bottle,'” he recalled. “And it would work a couple days—after which anyone throws a occasion.”
He in a roundabout way sought abet, coming into rehab on Dec. 18, 2011. “I got to the level where I knew it changed into something I couldn't invent on my very personal,” Gilbert mentioned. “Pissed me off to no kill and embarrassed me. I'm a relatively solid-willed individual however that changed into the one ingredient in my lifestyles that I couldn't get to stay.”
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