After numerous arrests on drug-related charges, the actor eventually served nearly a year in the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, Calif., in 2000. Cut to today, where the clean-living star is bigger than ever due, in part, to a little movie called Iron Man.
She became the first African-American in 1983 to be crowned Miss America. However, when nude photos taken prior to her pageant days surfaced, she was forced to relinquish her crown. Williams soon found huge success in the music biz, on Broadway, in the movies as well as on TV with such shows as Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and 666 Park Avenue.
It was no laughing matter when the man best known as Seinfeld's Cosmo Kramer unleashed a racist tirade during a stand-up routine at an L.A. comedy club in 2006. Soon after the incident, Richards went on The Late Show With David Letterman to say he was "deeply, deepy sorry." He is now currently working on a new TV Land sitcom, Kirstie, starring Kirstie Alley that is set to debut this fall.
The domestic diva was sentenced in 2004 to five months in jail and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine for lying to investigators about her sale of ImClone Systems stocks. Upon her release, Stewart began to successfuly rebuild her career and media empire, including the launch of the daytime TV program, The Martha Stewart Show. Stewart is also mounting another comeback of sorts, in the love department, by joining Match.com.
The actor may have been busted with a prostitute in Hollywood in 1995, but his boyish charm eventually managed to recover. Talk about turning a trick!
After finding fame as a chld actress thanks to such movies as E.T. and Firestarter, Barrymore wound up living life in the fast lane that led to two stints in rehab. Barrymore eventually re-emerged in the late '90s appearing in romantic comedies like Never Been Kissed and forming the successful production company Flower Films.
Following his Two and a Half Men meltdown, the likes of which we hadn't seen in a long time (OK, make that never), the man proved he was indeed "winning" all along with the success of his current TV series, Anger Management.
Her breakdown in 2008 seemed to suggest the pop star's career was kaput. But in a world of second chances, the singer returned with a vengeance with a string of big hits, sold-out concerts as well as landing a $15 million deal to serve as a judge on the 2012 season of The X Factor.
Between Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Urban Cowboy, it seemed as if the former Sweathog could do no wrong. Well, he did. (Hello! Two of a Kind? Perfect?) Fortunately, he still had a fan in Quentin Tarantino, who essentially single-handedly resurrected Travolta's career with 1994's Pulp Fiction.