Celebs with Stage Fright

Who would've thought that the Queen of Pop is suffering from stage fright? She seemed to have everything that a girl would ever dream of: fame, beauty, talent and riches.

In an interview with mag Dazed & Confused, Madonna said: “I have moments where I feel incredibly invincible and know that I have the audience in my hand — I know that everything is absolutely perfect.And then I have panic attacks where I feel like everyone is breathing my air and I cannot live up to everybody’s expectations and I might just die on stage.”

Celebs with Stage Fright Part 2

Here's another round of celebrities who've fought the battle with stage fright



Gibson had caught the acting bug by the time he reached college age, and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, despite what he describes as a crippling ordeal with stage fright. Luckily, this was something he overcame relatively quickly -- Gibson was still a student when he filmed Summer City. After his graduation, he quickly found work playing supporting roles for the South Australia Theatre Company.




Rod Stewart had such a bad case of stage fright during one concert that he sang an entire song while hiding behind a speaker stack. In 1968, the Rod Stewart-fronted Jeff Beck Group made its U.S. debut at New York's Fillmore East theater. Stewart was so nervous that he sang the entire first song from behind a stack of speakers.



Barbara Streisand stopped performing live for almost three decades after forgetting the lyrics to one of her songs during a 1967 Central Park concert. "Some performers really do well when they forget the words," Streisand told Diane Sawyer recently. "They forget the words all the time, but they somehow have humor about it. I remember I didn't have a sense of humor about it. I was quite shocked."