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Chances are, you\u2019ve heard about Ayahuasca and how it gives people the wildest drug trips that can, potentially, change the course of their lives. But did you know that quite a few celebrities have tried Ayahuasca and shared their experiences? Before we get into what celebrities have said about their Ayahuasca journeys, though, we need to talk about what it even is \u2014 and why it\u2019s so polarizing.<\/p>\n
Ayahuasca is a type of brew made from hallucinogenic ingredients and plants, typically including the Psychotria viridis shrub, per Healthline<\/a>. While Ayahuasca is illegal in the United States, it\u2019s used for spiritual, religious, and ceremonial purposes by numerous tribes in North and South America.<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \tRelated story \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tMore Teens Are Saying No To Drinking & Drugs \u2014 But One Trendy Product Is an Exception\t\t<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n So what happens when you take Ayahuasca? Experiences can really vary. By that, we mean that someone can have a trip that\u2019s full of ecstasy, enlightenment, panic, or anxiety \u2014 or all of the above.<\/p>\n Vomiting and diarrhea<\/a> are normal parts of the experience, which can last up to six hours. However, some people find Ayahuasca to be helpful with mental health conditions<\/a> and general well-being. In fact, in 2022, a group of scholars did a study<\/a> via survey and discovered that respondents who regularly used Ayahuasca displayed lower levels of anxiety<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, with such high highs come some serious lows. Along with vomiting, diarrhea, and potential paranoia, some people have reported that Ayahuasca can worsen certain mental disorders, and some research<\/a> has found that it can cause cardiac issues. There have also been several reports of death during an Ayahuasca ceremony, though \u201cthere has never been a death observed during a clinical study,\u201d researchers noted in one 2018 paper<\/a>. In other cases, Ayahuasca has been blamed for a death that occurred after the ceremony, sometimes long after \u2014 as in the case of one celebrity ahead.<\/p>\n Many celebrities who\u2019ve had Ayahuasca experiences talk about both the good and the bad, but all of them have stressed that their experiences took place either abroad or with a tribe doing a ceremony. Ahead, these stars\u2019 stories show just how wide the range of experiences on Ayahuasca can be, from scary to confusing to life-changing.<\/p>\n \t\t Anna Kendrick said in an interview with SXSW, dodging a question about her co-star Blake Lively\u2019s legal drama by saying,\u00a0\u201cI did Ayahuasca and the last year of my life is just gone, but I\u2019ve heard the movie is amazing,\u201d per People<\/a>. It\u2019s unclear if this was purely a joke or her legitimately admitting she did ayuhasca, but either way, it\u2019s got people talking.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t According to his widow Allison Holker, the late Stephen \u201ctWitch\u201d Boss went on an Ayahuasca journey before he died by suicide in 2022. While promoting her 2025 memoir on The Jamie Kern Lima Show<\/a>, Holker recalled that Boss \u201cwasn\u2019t the same afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n Holker said, \u201cI think it was a very big turning point for him. I feel like his heart was never really in the same place when he came back. There was something missing in his eyes. It just kind of feels like he opened something up to himself that he never healed and never fully escaped.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Chelsea Handler revealed on her Chelsea Does docuseries, via celebrity.land<\/a>, that she tried Ayahuasca twice. While she didn\u2019t feel anything the first time, Handler said that during her second experience, she saw a \u201clight show\u201d of colors. \u201cI had all these beautiful imageries of my childhood and me and my sister laughing on a kayak, and all these beautiful things with me and my sister,\u201d she said. \u201cSo [my experience] was very much about opening my mind to loving my sister, and not being so hard on her.\u201d<\/p>\n But she also said there was lots of vomiting, too!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t On a 2021 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>, Megan Fox revealed that she and her ex MGK went to Costa Rica to try Ayahuasca. She said it was like \u201cgoing to hell for eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJust knowing eternity is, like, torture in itself, because there was no beginning, middle, or end,\u201d Fox said. \u201cSo you have, like, a real ego death.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Speaking to Rolling Stone<\/a> in 2020, Miley Cyrus said she had a very intense experience with Ayahuasca. In fact, she said the shaman she did it with claims it can take people up to 30 tries to get the kind of experience she had. \u201cIt was pretty crazy,\u201d Cyrus said, talking about how snakes brought her to \u201cMother Ayahuasca.\u201d \u201cI loved it, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Ricki Lake has done Ayahuasca 11 times. In a 2018 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,<\/a> Lake said that she wouldn\u2019t say she loves Ayahuasca, but that it\u2019s been an amazing healing tool. \u201cIt\u2019s a very, very powerful medicine that has been very beneficial in my life,\u201d Lake said. \t\t While Susan Sarandon<\/a> hasn\u2019t gone in-depth on her experience with Ayahuasca, she did reveal that she does partake in more natural typed of drugs. In a 2014 interview with Daily Beast<\/a>, Sarandon explained that she\u2019s \u201cdone Ayahuasca [psychedelic tea] and I\u2019ve done mushrooms and things like that. But I like those drugs in the outdoors \u2014 I\u2019m not a city-tripper.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Will Smith wrote in his 2021 memoir Will <\/a>that he tried Ayahuasca 14 times amid a breakup with Jada Pinkett-Smith, and that he saw a figure named \u201cmother\u201d who helped him discover self-love.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I\u2019m this beautiful, I don\u2019t need #1 movies to feel good about myself,\u201d he wrote of his revelations. \u201cIf I\u2019m this beautiful, I don\u2019t need hit records to feel worthy of love. If I\u2019m this beautiful, I don\u2019t need Jada or anyone else to validate me. It\u2019s about being able to find that contentment within yourself \u2014 not with external stimuli. In my 5-plus years on this planet, this is the unparalleled greatest feeling I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Lindsay Lohan<\/a> described her experience with Ayahuasca as a form of rebirth.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI worked with a shaman doing a cleanse,\u201d she recalled on\u00a0Lindsay<\/a> in 2014. She described it as an \u201ceye-opening\u201d and \u201cintense\u201d experience, where she saw her whole life in front of her and realized she \u201chad to let go of things I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.\u201d Lohan said the whole experience was like being reborn. \u201cIt was as if I had completely left behind the weights that I myself had created in my past and now I am only looking forward,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt is a unique experience and it\u2019s changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t How I Met Your Mother<\/a> alum Josh Radnor hasn\u2019t just dabbled in Ayahuasca \u2014 he\u2019s done it over 100 times in the past decade. Radnor wrote about his experience with the brew in a 2020 issue of the journal Oneing<\/a> from the Center for Action and Contemplation, noting that he was always \u201cled by a shaman\u201d and approached the journey with \u201cgreat seriousness of purpose.\u201d Radnor \u201ctook so ferociously\u201d to Ayahuasca, he said, partly due to being \u201crattled\u201d by his career success and the loss of his privacy and anonymity. \u201cAyahuasca became my refuge, a thing that felt meaningful and true at a time when meaning and truth felt in short supply,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI ran into its arms and vomited up\u2014oftentimes quite literally\u2014my fears, obsessions, regrets, and insecurities. And the medicine, or whatever force dwells therein, held me\u2026 I continue to feel that ayahuasca is, in many ways, an antidote to what ails the modern soul, a fiercely deep teacher of generosity, selflessness, and forgiveness. It offered me a glimpse of my best and bravest self.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Tori Amos did Ayahuasca so many times in the 1980s, that even years later, a certain smell could take her back to those trips.<\/p>\n \u201cThe drug which had a big effect on me was Ayahuasca\u2026 I was very lucid but felt like I was walking around in Fantasia, having a conversation with myself,\u201d she said in an archived 2001 Q magazine interview via Yes Said<\/a>. \u201cIt isn\u2019t like acid. It\u2019s more emotional, more mental. But it can grab you by the balls and just shove you up against the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Aaron Rodgers drank Ayahuasca with a shaman of Quechua lineage with his then-girlfriend NASCAR star Danica Patrick, and it taught him all about self-love.<\/p>\n \u201cI started deep on a journey where Ayahuasca is usually described as a grandmother spirit, and I met her and walked with her through past, present, and future lives, and it was the most beautiful experience I could possibly imagine,\u201d he said on the Audrey Marcus podcast<\/a> in 2022. \u201cMy intention the first night going in was I want to feel what pure love feels like. That was my intention and I did, I really did. I had a magical experience with the sensation of feeling 100 different hands on my body imparting a blessing of love and forgiveness for myself and gratitude for this life from what seemed to be my ancestors.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cThat\u2019s what ayahuasca did for me, was help me see how to unconditionally love myself. It\u2019s only in that unconditional self-love, that then I\u2019m able to truly be able to unconditionally love others.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Penn Badgley<\/a> not only tried Ayahuasca, but he spoke at the 2012 Ayahuasca Monologues about it, calling the brew a \u201cglittering spiritual tool,\u201d per the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t Sting has been quite open about his ayahuasca experience, and even wrote in his autobiography Broken Music<\/a> that he considers it to be the only religious experience he\u2019s ever had. In a 2016 interview with\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/a>, the rock star said his experiences with the drug have forced him to confront his mortality. \u201cI think it\u2019s a way of rehearsing the feeling of being dead,\u201d he explained. \u201cEvery time, I have to work up the courage to do it\u2026 [I]t\u2019s as if you\u2019re dead, out of time. Your whole life passes front of you in this other realm.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s a frightening experience, but Sting believes Ayahuasca may help us approach death differently. \u201cMost people die in total panic. Terror,\u201d he said. \u201cI think there\u2019s another way. We\u2019re supposed to die. There must be a way to die peacefully and welcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sheknows.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Chances are, you\u2019ve heard about Ayahuasca and how it gives people the wildest drug trips that can, potentially, change the course of their lives. 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Anna Kendrick<\/h2>\n
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