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Post by margojata on Aug 15, 2011 9:46:40 GMT -4
Yeah, Kate Major is all bloated and slutty looking (what was up with that silver jacket and matching nail polish?). She was sort of cute, and seemed out of Jon's league. Now she's not even in Lohan's league. OK, that's a lie, street hookers are better than he is (no offense to street hookers).
Good job breaking Mike Starr's death to Steven Adler ON camera. Thank God he seemed to handle it well. I guess he's gotten that news many many times over the years (and now other one this week). They could have done a tribute without the exploitation of his friend.
Next week's preview shows Gummy Bear Davis strolling in as a success story? Drew really needs to stop doing that shit. Not only did he appear to have gained back like 50 pounds, hasn't he been arrested several times since?
And poor Doc Gooden. Did he get to speak at all? I think there was a reunion with a son? But after that, it's as if he's drowned in the pool and no one knows yet.
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Post by margojata on Apr 3, 2012 12:54:10 GMT -4
Yeah, Drew.. playing this shit out on TV really helps these guys...
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Post by GoldenFleece on Feb 18, 2013 16:18:30 GMT -4
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Post by Ginger on Feb 18, 2013 17:30:18 GMT -4
I just don't view that television show as rehab, so I can't condemn it as inneffective treatment. 21 days on a reality show is not treatment. I don't think it did any *harm* to the participants, most of whom showed up only for the exposure and the paycheck.
For a few who genuinely wanted to get well, it gave them an avenue into real treatment after the show was over, and that was a good thing. (Dr. Drew helped Jessica Sierra, who was facing criminal charges, get sentenced to one year of lockdown treatment with no media contact whatsoever, and that was a really good thing for her.)
In Mindy McCready's case, she wound up becoming roommates with Kari Ann Peniche after the show ended, and that was not a good idea. Peniche accused McCready of stealing and selling that video of Peniche in a threesome with Eric Dane & Rebecca Gayheart.
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Post by Hamatron on Feb 18, 2013 23:07:02 GMT -4
So sad. But like someone was saying in the Mindy McCready, any rehab has a low success rate, unfortunately.
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Post by GirlyGhoul on Feb 19, 2013 9:49:33 GMT -4
The problem I had with the show is it always seemed more enabling than helping. Like, Steven Adler had had an abusive incident with one of the administrators- and rather than ship him off somewhere else- jail even- they brought both him and the administrator back in another season. And not in a "Steven's learned his lesson and really made progess in his anger management" In a "Oh, guess who's coming back. Your old adversary!" So the administrator could freak out and hyperventilate over having to deal with this abusive asshole yet again.
They also had so much drama like Shifty (who will probably be the next Rehab dead) climbing on the roof, running away but Skypeing back to the Rehab house so all the rehabbers could freak out and try to solve the "mystery" of where he was.
I mean, it was the usual Reality Show drama- except these were all very sick people struggling for Sobriety and also having Fame Addicition as one of their main issues- which the cameras and drama enabled.
So, yeah, rehab is a tricky bitch and many many people fail even after rehab. But what this show seemed more like was a chance for these very sick celebs to tell themselves they did rehab- when really- they just did an exploitive Reality Show and it gave them another chance to lie to themselves and enable their addiction. I mean, what Dr. Drew gave them was a bunch of sad panda faces and the idea that none of it was their fault and prodding to expose the darkest, juicyest drama of their past- whereas another rehab may have given them better tools to cope once they were out in the real world and facing temptation. Sure, they still may have failed. But imagine once the cameras are gone and the celeb is feeling down, missing the spotlight, wanting to hit the bottle or the needle to make the lonliness go away- and they look back to their time in "rehab"... and just remember Shifty running around on the roof or Dr. Drew's sad panda face... or that they got the bad edit. It's not much to cling to in their moment of weakness.
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Post by bklynred on Feb 20, 2013 19:32:12 GMT -4
Aren't they also paid to be on the show? How can you find rock bottom when someone's promising you $10k (or whatever) if you stay clean for three weeks?
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Post by Ginger on Jan 11, 2014 10:48:37 GMT -4
So I read Bob Forrest's autobiography Running With Monsters because I'm on a heroin theme right now. He was definitely one of the most likeable counselors on Celebrity Rehab, but I had to remind myself before I read the book that he was a hardcore junkie for many years and junkies often do bad things.
There was a pattern I found unsettling. When he was in his 20s, he got a 16 year old girl pregnant. When he was in his 30s, he dated a 16 year old Belgian schoolgirl who OD'd (non-fatally) after he gave her some of his drugs. In his late 30s, sober, his steady girlfriend that he was in love with was 19. He's BFF's with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and they all like young girls. Ick.
He recently got married and had a baby with one of his patients from Las Encinas. He didn't get fired over it, but he throws some shade at the person who "betrayed" him by spilling the beans to their superiors - Loesha Zeviar (also briefly on Celebrity Rehab). He says she was scared and in over her head and implies that her job is too much for her. It sounds to me like she did exactly what her job dictates that she should do. He's all, those rules are to protect patients from predators, not from people like me. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't know how old his wife is, but a CNN article referred to her as "his much younger wife". (He's 53 and they just had a baby, so she'd have to be younger.)
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