Kit Harington, Nelly Furtado, & More

Grimes

Grimes revealed in March 2025 that she has ADHD, dyslexia, and autism. She wrote on X, “[I] bought 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 recognized this once I was a baby, I’d 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 had been very onerous for me however I’m glad I overcame them.”

Nelly Furtado

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

“After I was attending school, [I was like] ‘Boing, boing, boing, boing.’ I’ve had it my complete life,” Furtado says. “However once I had my two youngest in shut proximity, it made me very conscious of my ADHD…. Yeah, it’s an on a regular basis form of examine and focus, like, ‘How will we floor ourselves right now?’ Lots of people are fighting that. How will we focus? How will we floor ourselves? We now have 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, nonetheless, he has an important help system to assist him out alongside the way in which. 

“I realised that my life was hanging on this. Fortunately it was the correct place on the proper time. I managed to forge a brand new life from there,” he mentioned. “When it occurs I can… carry the entire room down. And slightly 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 state of affairs.”

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 remedy for ADD. 

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

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

“I’m a danger taker; I’m a artistic. My Thoughts is all the time shifting. I’m all the time considering of recent methods to do enterprise,” she mentioned 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 correct approach!”

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 rather a lot. After I’m writing a tune, ten songs are popping out of that idea. My mind is in ten completely different locations. I truly actually take pleasure in it. It’s exhausting, don’t get me fallacious, however it’s actually enjoyable. If it’s someone else’s story and a special artistic course of, I don’t do as properly 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 previous and in school. Talking with NIH Medline Plus, Holderness described how he had found out a system of tips on how to reside with ADHD even earlier than he was recognized, together with sitting within the entrance row of courses “or I’d area out.” 

When he first bought recognized, Holderness was a bit indignant, but additionally relieved. “It helped clarify what was happening as a result of I used to be struggling extra with schoolwork in school,” he mentioned. He credit his ADHD for serving to him win The Superb Race in 2022, saying “that was probably the most comfy” 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 prefer to reside “in a world that wasn’t designed for you”.  

Holderness is raring to verify his followers fighting ADHD know life isn’t over after prognosis. “Don’t ever really feel alone. There’s a large neighborhood of people that have this and help you. I simply need individuals to know that they aren’t damaged. You’re going to 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 special 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 advised The New York Times Style Magazine. “You get lumped in courses with children 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 courses and also you say, ‘All proper, I’m clearly not like these children both.’ So that you’re sort of nowhere. You’re simply completely 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 information, together with hers. Critics accused her of utilizing her ADHD remedy 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 principles, and can proceed to take action as honest play is important 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. 

“After I was first recognized with ADHD, it wasn’t a shock as a result of I had issue in highschool focusing,” Levine mentioned within the PSA. “And I feel now, individuals discover my ADHD as an grownup every day. After I can’t concentrate, I actually can’t concentrate.”

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

Solange Knowles

In line with 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 advised 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 advised 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 business. Lack of reminiscence, beginning one thing and never ending it…”

Zooey Deschanel

The New Woman star first shared that she has ADHD in a weblog put up 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 write down this opening paragraph (I’ve already gotten up 4 occasions), so I must 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. Perhaps, if it’s a extremely small subject bunny and I’m knitting with large knitting needles. I acknowledge I’ll by no means full one thing that takes any sort 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 however it’s not simple with ADHD. I’ve a tough time focusing once 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 attributable to it. “Effectively, I feel through the years, what I’ve come to be taught, because of some nice therapists, is my melancholy is created by a extreme stage of ADHD,” he defined to CBS News in 2021.

“So [ADHD] might be completely different for various individuals. I’m not– you recognize? 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 develop into overwhelmed and it may simply really feel like the entire world is simply too heavy to bear,” he defined.

Daniel Kwan

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

“So I began performing some analysis. After which I stayed up till like, 4 within the morning, simply studying the whole lot 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 bought recognized. I bought 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 understand why your life has been so onerous.”

Justin Timberlake

Throughout a 2008 interview with Collider, Justin Timberlake was straigtening out information when he defined to the interviewer, “I’ve OCD combined with ADD, you strive residing 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 Little one Thoughts Institute‘s Converse Up for Children marketing campaign, aiming to destigmatize ADHD, which he additionally has.

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

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 children and their dad and mom speak about [their ADHD], I felt prefer it’s not likely 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 medical doctors that we profiled in our episode, and he went via the battery of checks and confirmed that I had ADHD.”

Audra McDonald

Broadway star Audra McDonald bought into some sizzling 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 woman and discovering out what she was into as a substitute, and pushing her into the theatre.” 

McDonald rapidly clarified that she was not condemning dad and mom for placing their kids on ADHD remedy, 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 discovered tips on how to management it. I can discuss, take a look at that individual, 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 the whole lot 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 taking part in the piano. All through my life, I’ve discovered methods to deal with my signs, as a result of I believed they had been simply a part of who I’m.”

“After talking with my physician and getting recognized with ADHD, I noticed that having instruments—akin to remedy and organizational methods—would assist handle my signs. Along with recommending methods, akin to taking breaks throughout rehearsals, my physician prescribed remedy, 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 exhibits, and fixed journey. With enchancment in my ADHD signs, I can concentrate on 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 once I didn’t have them,” he wrote for ADDitude.

Whereas he makes use of a mixture of remedy and remedy for his ADHD, Mandel famous that remedy isn’t the identical for everybody and that getting recognized is a good 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 learning to be a baby psychologist and she or he went to my elementary college to check the worst child that they had. They had been like, ‘Mrs. Pennington, you actually don’t need to know who that’s.’ They let her observe me via 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 bounce off a constructing — not solely would I get a rush from it, individuals would possibly chuckle and assume 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 prior to now, and Model is aware of that many individuals acknowledge him for his confidence and would possibly even query his diagnoses.

“Outdoors of performing I’m not a very assured individual. 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. You understand, clearly I’m completely different when I’m chatting to my mum. Or taking part in with my cat. Individuals are multi-faceted, aren’t they?”

Mary-Kate Olsen

Bear 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 further time to take the check due to my ADD. Everyone’s brains work otherwise 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 bother paying consideration. At the moment 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 – basic underachiever. It was onerous for me to learn a whole e-book in two weeks. At the moment I purchase a e-book 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. Perhaps I’m simply completely different. Do you guys like completely different. Who desires to be similar to all people else, you recognize? I feel that’s boring,” he mentioned. The singer advised GQ he was taking adderall for his ADHD, however that he was “getting plenty of anxiousness, and [my doctors] assume 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 slightly hyper, and that’s precisely what it’s. Again then that they had no tolerance for it. In the event you’re on the market flirting with some woman, strolling exterior, watching a caterpillar stroll up your arm…

“Issues like that you simply had been extra excited about than college, you had been gone. Particularly within the days of the Catholic faculties. Lastly they simply mentioned, ‘You can’t come again to high school, interval’ and I used to be like, OK, I’ll develop into an actor,” he said.

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

Karlie Kloss

“I’ve ADHD, and I positively struggled with it once I was youthful,” mannequin Karlie Kloss advised The Night Commonplace in 2017. The mannequin has a particular curiosity in coding and even has an initiative referred to as “Kode with Klossy.” Through the 2017 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, her workforce of highschool woman 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 regardless that I didn’t know tips on how to do issues I ought to have recognized tips on how to do. Like, I couldn’t learn…I couldn’t soak up any of the knowledge, so I induced bother,” he mentioned 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 certain what to do about this example 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, regardless that I do know … that so many tens of millions of individuals endure from [ADHD],” Phillips mentioned. “There’s slightly 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”. On account of her “great quantity of enthusiasm”, her mom put her in “each exercise” in an try and “tire her out”. 

She described herself as having a “actually energetic 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 films 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 ought to be “acknowledged and talked about in adults” with a purpose to carry consciousness to this dysfunction. He mentioned that after his prognosis he started to take his remedy and the distinction is like “day and evening”. There was like a “visitors jam” in his thoughts and now it’s like “one automotive goes after which one other automotive goes”. Remedy 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 said he “knew I had it rising up” and he attributed it to “not sitting nonetheless, (being) simply distracted or not with the ability to concentrate on 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 remedy instantly, he mentioned in a 2016 city corridor dialog with Musicians Institute. After a few 12 months he determined he didn’t need to take it anymore and give up. Urie mentioned it “freaked me out” and he was not liking who he “had develop into”. He tried medication once more when his band was rising in reputation however finally give up once more as a result of he didn’t “need to simply numb this”. He would slightly 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 the whole lot” he does it’s not a “detriment” to his objectives and as a substitute has a “optimistic impact”. He makes use of his craft and “creating stuff” as a option to launch all his vitality and emotion.

Lily Allen

Lily Allen opened up about being recognized with ADHD in 2023, telling The Instances that she’d “fully” gone off of social media consequently. “As quickly as I take a look at it, it may be hours of my day gone,” she defined, through The Guardian. The singer additionally revealed that ADHD “form of runs in my household,” and that she believed that shifting the US, “the place they take these items barely extra significantly” than in England, could have contributed to her getting the prognosis.

Extra lately, Allen contemplated whether or not her ADHD was contributing to her points with meals; the singer has additionally struggled with consuming issues prior to now. “My physique and my mind are two very separate issues to me,” she defined in her BBC podcast Miss Me? “I spend plenty of time in my head and never plenty of time fascinated by my physique.” That signifies that typically, she mentioned, “y physique and my mind are so disconnected from one another that the messages of starvation aren’t going from my physique to my mind… my physique is just a few steps behind me.”

Jessie J

Jessie J started experiencing signs of each ADHD and OCD after giving delivery to her son, Sky Safir, in Might 2023, however she didn’t get a prognosis till a 12 months later, when the pop star was 36. “It’s bizarre when you recognize you’ve got been slightly completely different and felt issues otherwise your complete life, and eventually in the future once you least anticipate it, somebody actually explains why and you may’t keep away from it,” Jessie J wrote in a now-deleted Instagram put up, per People. “​​ADHD has such a large spectrum it’s like a thriller placing your model of it collectively, that’s the way it’s felt for me.” She went on to elucidate how she felt the dysfunction was “a superpower so long as you take a look at it from the correct perspective and have the correct help and other people round you that may navigate it with you.”

Denise Welch

Actress Denise Welch was recognized with ADHD in her mid-60s and was initially hesitant about taking the remedy she was prescribed for it. On a November 2024 episode of the ADHD Clutter podcast, Welch recalled telling her husband  that she thought the remedy would “change who I’m.” Welch, who additionally has melancholy, determined to take the remedy when her husband reminded her how strongly she advocates for taking antidepressants. Nevertheless, when Welch took the remedy for the primary time, she felt the urge to have “a drink and a cigarette for the primary time in 11 years,” she recalled. “And it was horrendous the way it affected me. Had I not been so a few years into and so safe and able to managing my sobriety, it could have been a really very very harmful tipping level for me.”

Given her expertise, Welch finally determined to not take ADHD remedy, although she nonetheless famous that it may be useful for many individuals. “ADHD remedy adjustments so many individuals’s lives for the higher, however there are some individuals it’s not good for and I used to be completely one in all them,” she defined.

Hilaria Baldwin

In her memoir Handbook Not Included, Hilaria Baldwin defined that the controversy generated round her Spanish accent and origins had been associated to her neurodivergence. “In the event you solely knew how loud it’s in my mind at any given second!” she wrote, per People. “I simply existed in a land the place typically I spoke one language and typically I spoke one other, typically I combined them and bought combined up, and I by no means talked about my processing variations. I simply tried to be ‘regular.’”

Baldwin recalled how troublesome it was to expertise individuals questioning her connection to Spain resulting from her forgetting phrases or talking a sure approach, however that she discovered consolation from her husband, Alec Baldwin, and ultimately sought skilled assist together with her speech as properly. “I took speech remedy to enunciate higher,” she wrote. “The extra I bought remedy for the ADHD that I used to be making an attempt to disregard, the higher I bought at separating the 2 languages and never getting as distracted.”

Ellen DeGeneres

In her Netflix particular For Your Approval, Ellen DeGeneres opened up about growing older and the neurological circumstances she manages, together with each OCD and ADHD. The comic defined that ADHD particularly “makes it actually onerous to take a seat down and concentrate on something in any respect. I imply, have you learnt how onerous it was for me to place this collectively? After all you don’t. Why would I ask that query? It’s onerous for me to focus.”

In basic Ellen style, although, DeGeneres discovered a option to put a humorous spin on issues. “So, I’ve [ADHD], I’ve OCD, I’m dropping my reminiscence. However I feel I’m well-adjusted as a result of I obsess on issues, however I don’t have the eye span to keep it up, and I rapidly neglect what I used to be obsessing about within the first place,” DeGeneres joked. “So, it takes me all the way in which round to being properly adjusted, I feel.”