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'I would like to grow less afraid of dying...'
It's safe to say that none of us want to die, we want to live our lives to the full and for as many years as possible. But what happens if you develop an irrational fear of dying? What if there's nothing afterwards? What will happen to our family? Will it be painful? That’s the case for these celebrities, who have all admitted to being scared to death of dying... (©BANG Showbiz)
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Emma Stone
In an interview with The Sunday Times, ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ actress Emma Stone talked about the anxiety and panic attacks she started experiencing from a young age, caused by a fear of dying. She said: "I'm close to my mortality. I think about it every day. Not in a freaky way, but constantly. I feel hyper-aware that everything could end. That's always been in my mind.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Rita Ora
The ‘Let You Love Me’ singer suffers from thanatophobia, an extreme fear of passing away. Rita sought therapy to help her get over her phobia. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, she said: “It is my biggest phobia. I used to have panic attacks when I was little, saying, ‘Mum, I don’t want to die.’ I’ve been to therapy and still try to go every week.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Stacey Solomon
During an appearance on the ‘Happy Place’ podcast, Stacey - who first rose to fame on 'The X Factor’ - talked about her irrational fear of death. Stacey said: "My 'out of control' manifests in fear. I have this really weird fear of death. So the minute I feel out of control I just think I'm going to die. "When things are going wrong I just immediately, my brain goes to the most intrusive thoughts that it possible could. "I just think, ‘Oh my gosh, this could happen to me tomorrow and then I could not wake up.'" (©BANG Showbiz)
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Charlotte Crosby
The reality TV star - who shot to fame on MTV’s ‘Geordie Shore’ - has a crippling fear of dying. In a chat with Heat magazine, Charlotte talked about how she has struggled with anxiety, which then makes her think she's going to die. Crosby said: “I’m so worried because I’m scared about dyyng and it’s the worst thing in the world I feel my heart pumping through my chest and feel like my whole body is empty.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Paris Hilton
When appearing on the 'Anna Faris is Unqualified' podcast, Paris talked about her worries about dying, but the reason for her fear was somewhat different to most people, When Faris asked her why she feared death, Hilton said: “Because if there was nothing (after death) it would be so boring. I hate being bored." (©BANG Showbiz)
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Larry King
An unearthed interview shared by film director Sheeraz Hasan in 2021, shows late TV host Larry King (1933-2021) speaking on a show ‘Tinsel Town’. The conversation revolves around life and the end and Larry admitted that “he’s scared to death of death”. After being asked if he believes in an afterlife, he answers: "Since I’ve never interviewed anyone who died, I never saw anyone come back.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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William Shatner
In an interview for CBC radio show ‘Q’, ‘Star Trek’ actor William Shatner talked about loneliness, death and illness, following his prostate cancer diagnosis. During the conversation he admitted to being afraid of passing away. Shatner, 92, said: "A scary day is dying. The mystery of loneliness now comes in. The mystery - what's going to happen? That's scary." (©BANG Showbiz)
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Sidney Poitier
In an interview the late actor Sidney Poitier (1927-2022) gave to Oprah Winfrey, the 'Porgy and Bess' star admitted his fear of death was crippling to him. Poitier - who passed away aged 94 - said: “I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Estelle Getty
In her book ‘If You Ask Me’, acting legend Betty White - who passed away the last day of 2021 just weeks before her 100th birthday - revealed that her ‘Golden Girls’ co-star Estelle Getty (1923–2008) was petrified about passing away. A paragraph of the publication read: “She was so afraid that the writers on ‘The Golden Girls’ couldn't put a dead joke in the script. This was early on, long before she ever got ill.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Michael J. Fox
One celeb who bucks the trend is Michael J. Fox. The 'Back to the Future’ star has been living with Parkinson's since 1991 but, despite his medical issue, Fox doesn't worry about death. The 61-year-old actor said: "I am genuinely a happy guy. I don’t have a morbid thought in my head - I don’t fear death.” (©BANG Showbiz)
It's safe to say that none of us want to die, we want to live our lives to the full and for as many years as possible.
