16 Shocking Photos of Celebrities Before and After Drugs

16 Shocking Photos of Celebrities Before and After Drug

Drugs are great. There is almost nothing drugs can’t do. But drugs are particularly great if you’re the manager of an up-and-coming young talent, a fresh-faced, cherubic-smiled prodigy who the public will pay quite astronomically large sums of money to watch commit slow suicide. Here are some before and after photos of this ritualistic sacrifice in action.

When Lohan first burst onto the big screen with her endearingly-sharp performance in The Parent Trap, few could ever have envisaged how that little red-haired, rosy-cheeked little tyke would turn out. Nowadays, she is most often spotted hoovering up lines of cocaine from a toilet seats, all the while covered in a mysterious goo.

The 27 club – the club whose membership is reserved for celebrities who have died at the age of 27 – has long held a morbid kind of appeal. Certainly, there is something strangely alluring to those individuals who burned intensely, brightly, exploding long before they ever had the chance to fade away. The loss of Miss Winehouse however was particularly tragic as the world sat back, shook their reproving heads and bought the magazines to watch it happen.

Musicians are always warbling on about their lives of excess. There is nothing more poetic that a drug-addled songwriter shooting up smack just because they are oh-so sensitive and talented. Pete Doherty is the living, breathing (well, just about) proof that neither of these virtues are universally true.