Kit Harington, Nelly Furtado, & More

Grimes

Grimes revealed in March 2025 that she has ADHD, dyslexia, and autism. She wrote on X, “[I] acquired recognized with ADHD/autism this 12 months and realized I’m most likely dyslexic, which is why I can’t spell in any respect with out spellcheck. I really feel, like, had we identified this after I was a baby, I might have labored a lot much less onerous, been on medicine, and so lots of the bizarre obsessions and motivations I had would have been seen as pathological and I may have written off sure issues that have been very onerous for me however I’m glad I overcame them.”

Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado instructed People that after welcoming two youngsters, she was recognized with ADHD, saying, “It made me understand I had ADHD. I’ve been recognized.”

“Once I was attending school, [I was like] ‘Boing, boing, boing, boing.’ I’ve had it my complete life,” Furtado says. “However after I had my two youngest in shut proximity, it made me very conscious of my ADHD…. Yeah, it’s an on a regular basis kind of research and focus, like, ‘How can we floor ourselves immediately?’ Lots of people are combating that. How can we focus? How can we floor ourselves? We’ve got a lot distraction — you must give your self grace.”

Equipment Harington

On a latest look on the Hidden 20% podcast with Ben Branson, Equipment Harington revealed that he was recognized with ADHD whereas in rehab, nevertheless, he has an important assist system to assist him out alongside the way in which. 

“I realised that my life was hanging on this. Fortunately it was the fitting place on the proper time. I managed to forge a brand new life from there,” he stated. “When it occurs I can… convey the entire room down. And just a little a part of me likes it that I’m having this impact. So I’ve to be very conscious that it’s taking place and take away myself from the scenario.”

Paris Hilton

The Easy Life star first talked about her ADD when she sat down with Larry King after spending 23 days behind bars in June 2007. The tabloids speculated that Hilton was on “medicines of a critical sort” throughout this time, and Hilton clarified that she takes treatment for ADD. 

“I’ve been on treatment since I used to be a baby. I’ve ADD. So I take treatment for that,” she defined on the time. 

She has since opened up about her ADHD and even known as it her “superpower.”

“I’m a threat taker; I’m a inventive. My Thoughts is all the time shifting. I’m all the time pondering of latest methods to do enterprise,” she stated in a clip she posted to Instagram in Might 2022. “I feel it offers me this drive and edge I wanted to succeed. It may be a superpower if nurtured in the fitting method!”

Renee Rapp

Renee Rapp talked to Official Charts about how she embraces her prognosis, saying, “I didn’t know I had ADHD as a child, I simply thought I used to be actually dramatic! I’m, however that’s a separate factor. I didn’t know or perceive what it was, however now I do and I actually adore it. I feel it helps me so much. Once I’m writing a tune, ten songs are popping out of that idea. My mind is in ten totally different locations. I truly actually take pleasure in it. It’s exhausting, don’t get me mistaken, but it surely’s actually enjoyable. If it’s someone else’s story and a unique inventive course of, I don’t do as nicely and I’d panic. When it’s my factor, although, I’m like ‘wow, I’ve so many concepts!’”

Penn Holderness

Holderness was recognized with ADHD when he was 20 years outdated and in school. Talking with NIH Medline Plus, Holderness described how he had found out a system of the way to dwell with ADHD even earlier than he was recognized, together with sitting within the entrance row of lessons “or I might area out.” 

When he first acquired recognized, Holderness was a bit offended, but additionally relieved. “It helped clarify what was occurring as a result of I used to be struggling extra with schoolwork in school,” he stated. He credit his ADHD for serving to him win The Wonderful Race in 2022, saying “that was essentially the most snug” he had been and it was one thing that “my ADHD mind is nice at.” He’s releasing a book in April all about ADHD and what it’s wish to dwell “in a world that wasn’t designed for you”.  

Holderness is keen to verify his followers combating ADHD know life shouldn’t be over after prognosis. “Don’t ever really feel alone. There’s a large group of people that have this and assist you. I simply need individuals to know that they aren’t damaged. You’ll be OK.”

Channing Tatum

In 2014, Tatum addressed having ADHD throughout a Reddit “Ask Me Something” (AMA). “Everybody’s on a spectrum. Some individuals really want [medications] to assist them, and others may perhaps go on a unique route,” he said of ADHD.

Tatum has additionally talked about how he struggled with ADHD and dyslexia in highschool. 

“Not having early success on that one path messes with you,” he instructed The New York Times Style Magazine. “You get lumped in lessons with youngsters with autism and Down syndrome, and also you go searching and say, ‘Okay, so that is the place I’m at.’ Otherwise you get put within the typical lessons and also you say, ‘All proper, I’m clearly not like these youngsters both.’ So that you’re type of nowhere. You’re simply totally different.”

Simone Biles

In 2016, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles had no alternative however to be open about having ADHD after Russian hackers broke into the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) database and uncovered athletes’ personal medical data, together with hers. Critics accused her of utilizing her ADHD treatment for a aggressive edge.

Shortly after the hack, Biles took to Twitter to speak about it.

“I’ve ADHD and I’ve taken medication for it since I used to be a child. Please know, I imagine in clear sport, have all the time adopted the foundations, and can proceed to take action as honest play is vital to sport and is essential to me,” she wrote. 

“Having ADHD, and taking medication for it’s nothing to be ashamed of nothing that I’m afraid to let individuals know.”

Adam Levine

In 2014, the Maroon 5 frontman opened up about having ADHD after starring within the “Own It” marketing campaign, meant to destigmatize ADHD. 

“Once I was first recognized with ADHD, it wasn’t a shock as a result of I had problem in highschool focusing,” Levine stated within the PSA. “And I feel now, individuals discover my ADHD as an grownup each day. Once I can’t listen, I actually can’t listen.”

“If someone approached me and stated that something that I stated, helped them determine it out — or somebody got here to me and stated I need assistance what do you recommend I do – the very first thing I might recommend they do is see someone,” he says. “See a physician about it.”

Solange Knowles

In response to Black Doctor, the Castles within the Sky singer didn’t imagine that she had ADHD, regardless of being recognized twice.

“I used to be recognized with ADHD twice. I didn’t imagine the primary physician who instructed me and I had an entire idea that ADHD was simply one thing they invented to make you pay for medication, however then the second physician instructed me I had it.”

She additionally famous that she is probably going not the one musician with ADHD, given the traits. “The signs appear to use to everybody round me within the trade. Lack of reminiscence, beginning one thing and never ending it…”

Zooey Deschanel

The New Lady star first shared that she has ADHD in a weblog submit for her web site HelloGiggles again in 2011. 

“Are you an unmedicated grownup with Consideration Deficit Dysfunction who additionally LOVES to do crafts? I AM! I barely have the persistence to put in writing this opening paragraph (I’ve already gotten up 4 instances), so I have to focus my unfocused thoughts on initiatives that may be accomplished in a short time. Am I going to knit a shawl? NO! Will I knit a shawl for a bunny? I don’t know. Possibly, if it’s a very small discipline bunny and I’m knitting with big knitting needles. I acknowledge I’ll by no means full one thing that takes any type of persistence (sorry needlepoint) so I made a decision to focus this weblog on crafts I CAN full,” she wrote in the intro.

Michelle Rodriguez

“I need to write and direct but it surely’s not straightforward with ADHD. I’ve a tough time focusing after I’m alone,” Michelle Rodriguez shared in a video interview for Cosmopolitan again in 2013.

Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah did some destigmatizing when he opened up about having ADHD, saying his melancholy was seemingly brought on by it. “Effectively, I feel through the years, what I’ve come to be taught, due to some nice therapists, is my melancholy is created by a extreme degree of ADHD,” he defined to CBS News in 2021.

“So [ADHD] will be totally different for various individuals. I’m not– you already know? However, like, so for myself, it signifies that if I’m not cautious in how I sleep, how I eat, how I– how I handle my routine I can turn out to be overwhelmed and it may well simply really feel like the entire world is simply too heavy to bear,” he defined.

Daniel Kwan

The whole lot All over the place All At As soon as director Daniel Kwan found that he had ADHD as he and his directing associate Daniel Scheinert have been researching for his or her Oscar-winning movie.

“So I began doing a little analysis. After which I stayed up till like, 4 within the morning, simply studying all the pieces I may discover about it, simply crying, simply realizing that, ‘Oh, my God, I feel I’ve ADHD,’” he defined to Salon. “So this film is the explanation why I acquired recognized. I acquired recognized, I went to remedy for a 12 months after which went to a psychiatrist. And I’m now on meds, and it’s such a stupendous, cathartic expertise to comprehend why your life has been so onerous.”

Justin Timberlake

Throughout a 2008 interview with Collider, Justin Timberlake was straigtening out data when he defined to the interviewer, “I’ve OCD blended with ADD, you strive dwelling with that.”

Michael Phelps

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has all the time been candid about his psychological well being journey. In 2017, he starred within the Youngster Thoughts Institute‘s Communicate Up for Youngsters marketing campaign, aiming to destigmatize ADHD, which he additionally has.

“I [saw] youngsters who, we have been all in the identical class, and the academics handled them in a different way than they’d deal with me,” he recalled to Sports Illustrated. “I had a instructor inform me that I might by no means quantity to something and I might by no means achieve success.” Clearly they have been mistaken!

Lisa Ling

Award-winning journalist Lisa Ling knew one thing was up as quickly as she beginning researching ADHD for a narrative. “As I used to be watching these youngsters and their dad and mom speak about [their ADHD], I felt prefer it’s probably not honest of me to simply watch this occur,” Ling shared in a Distraction Podcast episode.

“As a result of that is one thing that I all the time suspected of myself, I felt compelled to lastly after 30-some years get examined, and so I labored with one of many docs that we profiled in our episode, and he went by the battery of exams and confirmed that I had ADHD.”

Audra McDonald

Broadway star Audra McDonald acquired into some scorching water when she accepted her sixth Tony again in 2014. The star, who has ADHD, thanked her mom in her acceptance speech “for disobeying the physician’s orders and never medicating their hyper-active lady and discovering out what she was into as an alternative, and pushing her into the theatre.” 

McDonald rapidly clarified that she was not condemning dad and mom for placing their youngsters on ADHD treatment, noting that “I actually have benefited from psychotropic medicine to assist fight melancholy in my youth.”

Will.i.am

The Black Eyed Peas rapper revealed to the Daily Mail that he has “suffered from ADHD for years,” again in 2018. However now, the artist views ADHD as a present. 

“I’ve realized the way to management it. I can discuss, have a look at that particular person, take into consideration what I’ve to do now and what am I going to eat later. I don’t see if as a flaw.”

Karina Smirnoff

Dancing with the Stars dancer Kaarina Swirnoff shared her private expertise with ADHD again in 2012.

“My dad and mom tried something and all the pieces simply to deal with my inattention and supply an outlet for my hyperactivity,” she defined to the Saturday Evening Post. “They enrolled me in actions that held my curiosity like determine skating, ballet, gymnastics, and enjoying the piano. All through my life, I’ve discovered methods to deal with my signs, as a result of I assumed they have been simply a part of who I’m.”

“After talking with my physician and getting recognized with ADHD, I noticed that having instruments—reminiscent of treatment and organizational methods—would assist handle my signs. Along with recommending methods, reminiscent of taking breaks throughout rehearsals, my physician prescribed treatment, as a part of my ADHD remedy plan. Like most adults, my schedule could be very busy. My day is crammed with 10-hour dance rehearsals for my tv present, educating choreography, dancing in reveals, and fixed journey. With enchancment in my ADHD signs, I can deal with ending what I begin.”

Howie Mandel

Howie Mandel recalled that when he was a baby, his ADHD signs didn’t have a reputation.

“I used to be recognized with consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive dysfunction (OCD) as an grownup, however I don’t keep in mind a time after I didn’t have them,” he wrote for ADDitude.

Whereas he makes use of a mix of treatment and remedy for his ADHD, Mandel famous that remedy isn’t the identical for everybody and that getting recognized is a superb first step for anybody who suspects they’ve ADHD.

Ty Pennington

The Revolution host talked about his expertise of getting ADHD with a child with HuffPost again in February 2012.

“My mother was finding out to be a baby psychologist and he or she went to my elementary faculty to check the worst child they’d. They have been like, ‘Mrs. Pennington, you actually don’t need to know who that’s.’ They let her observe me by a window and inside 20 minutes I stripped bare, wore my desk round and swung on the blinds. I used to be only a full distraction to all the opposite college students,” he recalled. 

“Hyperactivity is only one facet of ADHD. There’s distractibility and there’s impulsivity,” he added. “I used to be the kind of child who would leap off a constructing — not solely would I get a rush from it, individuals may snicker and suppose it was cool. I’m that child and also you don’t actually develop out of it.”

Russell Model

Model has been recognized with bipolar and ADHD previously, and Model is aware of that many individuals acknowledge him for his confidence and may even query his diagnoses.

“Outdoors of performing I’m not a very assured particular person. I’m shy, awkward, nervous, gauche,” he defined the The Independent. ” My confidence is for what I do know that I’m good at. I’ve been sculpted by failure and by time. You see me doing my job. , clearly I’m totally different when I’m chatting to my mum. Or enjoying with my cat. Individuals are multi-faceted, aren’t they?”

Mary-Kate Olsen

Keep in mind when Mary-Kate Olsen attended NYU within the early aughts? It was throughout this time she opened up about having ADD and the accomodations wanted. “I get additional time to take the check due to my ADD. All people’s brains work in a different way and I simply want longer for issues to register,” she defined on the time.

Will Smith

Throughout an interview with Rolling Stone, Smith described what sort of scholar he was as a baby. “I used to be the enjoyable one who had hassle paying consideration. At this time they’d diagnose me as a baby with ADHD [attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder],” he defined.

“I used to be a B scholar who ought to’ve been getting A’s – traditional underachiever. It was onerous for me to learn a whole guide in two weeks. At this time I purchase a guide and have somebody learn it for me on tape!”

Justin Bieber

Again in 2016, then-22-year-old Justin Bieber opened up about ADHD on stage at a present in Manchester.

“I feel I’ve ADD, ADHD or one thing like that when my thoughts doesn’t work correctly.”

“It doesn’t. Possibly I’m simply totally different. Do you guys like totally different. Who needs to be similar to everyone else, you already know? I feel that’s boring,” he stated. The singer instructed GQ he was taking adderall for his ADHD, however that he was “getting lots of anxiousness, and [my doctors] suppose it’s stemming from the Adderall. That’s why I’ve stopped taking it,” he defined. 

Sylvester Stallone

Whereas Sylvester Stallone was by no means formally recognized, the actor has a sense he has ADHD primarily based on his childhood antics alone. 

“You possibly can most likely inform proper now I are usually just a little hyper, and that’s precisely what it’s. Again then they’d no tolerance for it. In case you’re on the market flirting with some lady, strolling exterior, watching a caterpillar stroll up your arm…

“Issues like that you simply have been extra taken with than faculty, you have been gone. Particularly within the days of the Catholic colleges. Lastly they simply stated, ‘You can’t come again to high school, interval’ and I used to be like, OK, I’ll turn out to be an actor,” he said.

“At this time they name it ADD, however I used to be ADDAA+AA!” he laughed.

Karlie Kloss

“I’ve ADHD, and I undoubtedly struggled with it after I was youthful,” mannequin Karlie Kloss instructed The Night Commonplace in 2017. The mannequin has a particular curiosity in coding and even has an initiative known as “Kode with Klossy.” Through the 2017 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, her group of highschool lady coders beat out 750 engineers with a digital actuality app designed to deal with and handle ADHD, per Fast Company.

Ryan Gosling

Though Gosling has not come ahead with an official prognosis, his time in class as a baby sounds similiar to many individuals with ADHD. “I didn’t really feel very sensible. They saved passing me in class although I didn’t know the way to do issues I ought to have identified the way to do. Like, I couldn’t learn…I couldn’t soak up any of the knowledge, so I precipitated hassle,” he stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. He credit being home-schooled for his success. 

Chynna Phillips Baldwin

The Wilson Phillips singer opened up about her “crippling” ADHD in a YouTube video in February 2024. “I’ve been speaking to my physician about this for some time as a result of I’m not fairly positive what to do about this case as a result of it’s gnarly,” she defined, including that focusing for greater than 30 seconds at a time feels “inconceivable” for her.

“I really feel fairly alone on this, although I do know … that so many thousands and thousands of individuals undergo from [ADHD],” Phillips stated. “There’s just a little little bit of disgrace wrapped up round [having ADHD].”

Greta Gerwig

Barbie director Greta Gerwig has been open about her ADHD prognosis as an grownup. In a 2023 interview with The Observer, she shared tales of her busy childhood. She was a “actual rule follower” and had “a ton of vitality”. Attributable to her “super quantity of enthusiasm”, her mom put her in “each exercise” in an try to “tire her out”. 

She described herself as having a “actually lively creativeness” which for a future 3 time Oscar Nominee, it is smart. Gerwig had “deep emotions” and “was emotional” as a baby, and has devoted herself to her love for motion pictures and artwork. 

Barry Keoghan

In a 2023 interview with Esquire, the “Saltburn” star mentioned the realities of ADHD and what his prognosis meant to him after being recognized in 2020. Keoghan believes that ADHD needs to be “acknowledged and talked about in adults” as a way to convey consciousness to this dysfunction. He stated that after his prognosis he started to take his treatment and the distinction is like “day and evening”. There was like a “site visitors jam” in his thoughts and now it’s like “one automobile goes after which one other automobile goes”. Treatment has helped him manage his ideas and feelings. 

In a 2022 episode of Amy Huberman’s Mamia and Me podcast, per The Irish Examiner, Keoghan acknowledged he “knew I had it rising up” and he attributed it to “not sitting nonetheless, (being) simply distracted or not with the ability to deal with one thing for X period of time”.

Brenden Urie

Panic! on the Disco frontman Brendon Urie was recognized with ADHD at age 13, and started to take treatment straight away, he stated in a 2016 city corridor dialog with Musicians Institute. After a couple of 12 months he determined he didn’t need to take it anymore and stop. Urie stated it “freaked me out” and he was not liking who he “had turn out to be”. He tried medication once more when his band was rising in reputation however finally stop once more as a result of he didn’t “need to simply numb this”. He would somewhat be himself and “address this” and it took awhile for him to simply accept that.  

He maintains that though it does “have an effect on all the pieces” he does it isn’t a “detriment” to his objectives and as an alternative has a “optimistic impact”. He makes use of his craft and “creating stuff” as a solution to launch all his vitality and emotion.