Kit Harington, Nelly Furtado, & More

Grimes

Grimes revealed in March 2025 that she has ADHD, dyslexia, and autism. She wrote on X, “[I] received identified with ADHD/autism this yr 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 once I was a toddler, I’d have labored a lot much less exhausting, been on medicine, and so lots of the bizarre obsessions and motivations I had would have been seen as pathological and I might have written off sure issues that had been very exhausting for me however I’m glad I overcame them.”

Nelly Furtado

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

“After I was attending faculty, [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 kind of research and focus, like, ‘How will we floor ourselves right now?’ Lots of people are scuffling with that. How will we focus? How will we floor ourselves? We have now a lot distraction — it’s important to give your self grace.”

Equipment Harington

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

“I realised that my life was hanging on this. Fortunately it was the precise 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 somewhat 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 severe sort” throughout this time, and Hilton clarified that she takes remedy for ADD. 

“I’ve been on remedy since I used to be a toddler. 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 inventive. My Thoughts is at all times transferring. I’m at all times considering of latest methods to do enterprise,” she stated in a clip she posted to Instagram in Might 2022. “I believe it offers me this drive and edge I wanted to succeed. It may be a superpower if nurtured in the precise method!”

Renee Rapp

Renee Rapp talked to Official Charts about how she embraces her analysis, 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 like it. I believe it helps me so much. After I’m writing a tune, ten songs are popping out of that idea. My mind is in ten totally different locations. I really actually get pleasure from it. It’s exhausting, don’t get me unsuitable, but it surely’s actually enjoyable. If it’s any person else’s story and a special inventive course of, I don’t do as nicely and I would panic. When it’s my factor, although, I’m like ‘wow, I’ve so many concepts!’”

Penn Holderness

Holderness was identified with ADHD when he was 20 years previous and in faculty. Talking with NIH Medline Plus, Holderness described how he had discovered a system of the way to stay with ADHD even earlier than he was identified, together with sitting within the entrance row of courses “or I’d area out.” 

When he first received identified, 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 faculty,” he stated. He credit his ADHD for serving to him win The Wonderful Race in 2022, saying “that was essentially 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 wish to stay “in a world that wasn’t designed for you”.  

Holderness is keen to verify his followers scuffling with ADHD know life shouldn’t be over after analysis. “Don’t ever really feel alone. There’s a enormous 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 might possibly 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 informed The New York Times Style Magazine. “You get lumped in courses 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 courses and also you say, ‘All proper, I’m clearly not like these youngsters both.’ So that you’re sort of nowhere. You’re simply totally different.”

Simone Biles

In 2016, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles had no selection however to be open about having ADHD after Russian hackers broke into the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) database and uncovered athletes’ non-public 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 drugs for it since I used to be a child. Please know, I imagine in clear sport, have at all times adopted the foundations, and can proceed to take action as truthful play is crucial to sport and is essential to me,” she wrote. 

“Having ADHD, and taking drugs 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 identified with ADHD, it wasn’t a shock as a result of I had issue in highschool focusing,” Levine stated within the PSA. “And I believe now, individuals discover my ADHD as an grownup each day. After I can’t concentrate, I actually can’t concentrate.”

“If any person 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 counsel I do – the very first thing I’d counsel they do is see any person,” he says. “See a physician about it.”

Solange Knowles

In keeping with Black Doctor, the Castles within the Sky singer didn’t imagine that she had ADHD, regardless of being identified twice.

“I used to be identified with ADHD twice. I didn’t imagine the primary physician who informed me and I had an entire idea that ADHD was simply one thing they invented to make you pay for drugs, however then the second physician informed 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 Lady star first shared that she has ADHD in a weblog publish for her website 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 jot 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. 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 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 but it surely’s not straightforward 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 possible brought on by it. “Effectively, I believe through the years, what I’ve come to study, 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] could be totally different for various individuals. I’m not– ? 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 possibly simply really feel like the entire world is simply too heavy to bear,” he defined.

Daniel Kwan

Every little thing In every single place All At As soon as director Daniel Kwan found that he had ADHD as he and his directing accomplice 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 all the things I might discover about it, simply crying, simply realizing that, ‘Oh, my God, I believe I’ve ADHD,’” he defined to Salon. “So this film is the rationale why I received identified. I received identified, I went to remedy for a yr after which went to a psychiatrist. And I’m now on meds, and it’s such a wonderful, cathartic expertise to understand why your life has been so exhausting.”

Justin Timberlake

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

Michael Phelps

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has at all times 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 had been all in the identical class, and the lecturers handled them in a different way than they’d 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 unsuitable!

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 discuss [their ADHD], I felt prefer it’s not likely truthful of me to only watch this occur,” Ling shared in a Distraction Podcast episode.

“As a result of that is one thing that I at all times 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 by way of the battery of checks and confirmed that I had ADHD.”

Audra McDonald

Broadway star Audra McDonald received 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 a substitute, and pushing her into the theatre.” 

McDonald shortly clarified that she was not condemning dad and mom for placing their youngsters on ADHD remedy, noting that “I personally 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 the way to management it. I can speak, 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 things simply to handle 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 had been simply a part of who I’m.”

“After talking with my physician and getting identified with ADHD, I noticed that having instruments—resembling remedy and organizational methods—would assist handle my signs. Along with recommending methods, resembling taking breaks throughout rehearsals, my physician prescribed remedy, as a part of my ADHD remedy plan. Like most adults, my schedule may be very busy. My day is stuffed with 10-hour dance rehearsals for my tv present, instructing choreography, dancing in exhibits, and fixed journey. With enchancment in my ADHD signs, I can give attention to ending what I begin.”

Howie Mandel

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

“I used to be identified 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 identified 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 finding out to be a toddler psychologist and he or she went to my elementary faculty 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 by way of 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 soar off a constructing — not solely would I get a rush from it, individuals may snigger and assume it was cool. I’m that child and also you don’t actually develop out of it.”

Russell Model

Model has been identified 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. You recognize, 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 further time to take the take a look at 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 toddler. “I used to be the enjoyable one who had bother paying consideration. Right this moment they’d diagnose me as a toddler 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 exhausting for me to learn a complete ebook in two weeks. Right this moment I purchase a ebook 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 believe 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 identical to everyone else, ? I believe that’s boring,” he stated. The singer informed GQ he was taking adderall for his ADHD, however that he was “getting loads of nervousness, 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 identified, the actor has a sense he has ADHD based mostly on his childhood antics alone. 

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

“Issues like that you simply had been extra keen on than faculty, you had been gone. Particularly within the days of the Catholic faculties. Lastly they only stated, ‘You can not come again to highschool, interval’ and I used to be like, OK, I’ll turn out to be an actor,” he said.

“Right this 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 informed The Night Customary in 2017. The mannequin has a particular curiosity in coding and even has an initiative referred to as “Kode with Klossy.” Throughout the 2017 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, her workforce 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 analysis, his time at school as a toddler sounds similiar to many individuals with ADHD. “I didn’t really feel very good. They saved passing me at school though 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 take in any of the data, so I triggered bother,” 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 example as a result of it’s gnarly,” she defined, including that focusing for greater than 30 seconds at a time feels “not possible” for her.

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

Greta Gerwig

Barbie director Greta Gerwig has been open about her ADHD analysis 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 power”. Because of her “super 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 toddler, 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 analysis meant to him after being identified in 2020. Keoghan believes that ADHD must be “acknowledged and talked about in adults” to be able to convey consciousness to this dysfunction. He stated that after his analysis 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 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 give attention to one thing for X period of time”.

Brenden Urie

Panic! on the Disco frontman Brendon Urie was identified with ADHD at age 13, and started to take remedy immediately, he stated in a 2016 city corridor dialog with Musicians Institute. After a few yr he determined he didn’t need to take it anymore and give up. Urie stated it “freaked me out” and he was not liking who he “had turn out to be”. He tried drugs once more when his band was rising in reputation however in the end give up once more as a result of he didn’t “need to simply numb this”. He would relatively 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 things” he does it isn’t a “detriment” to his objectives and as a substitute has a “constructive impact”. He makes use of his craft and “creating stuff” as a technique to launch all his power and emotion.