Celebrities With Tinnitus: Shatner, Letterman, Streisand, & Reagan

Did you know that Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin is afflicted with tinnitus? We didn’t either but he revealed recently that he was diagnosed with the condition nearly ten years ago and that it was caused by his propensity to listen to music oh-so-loudly when he was a teenager.

For those of you not familiar with it, tinnitus is a condition where one hears phantom noise — such as buzzing, humming, hissing, ringing, roaring — that are not actually there. It is more common than you think (one in five reportedly has it) and, aside from constant exposure to loud noise, it can be cause by other factors such as earwax blockage, medication, age-related hearing loss, stress and depression, high blood pressure, and many more.

Aside from Chris Martin, here are eight other celebrities with tinnitus:

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