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Dina Lohan — don’t blame Lindsay. Or me.
According to Dina Lohan, there’s nothing wrong with her daughter that can’t be blamed on the media, the paparazzi, and the Beverly Hills judge who sent Lindsay to jail, and then ordered her to drug and alcohol rehab for 90 days.
No matter that it’s the fourth stint in rehab for Lohan, 24, since 2007, when the “Mean Girls” star said in a statement that her life had become “completely unmanageable” because she was addicted to alcohol and drugs.
In a terse and defensive TV interview on Friday, mom Dina appeared to have no regrets and took no responsibility for the rapid and alarming downfall of her daughter, who came alone to Hollywood at the age of 19 to live, work, and party all night long.
“I had to let her go and let her live and fall and fail and survive. Without failure, there’s no success,” she said. “I was there in close proximity, but you can’t make your child not go out and go to a club and not get behind the wheel of a car. I certainly don’t condone any of that behavior,” Dina Lohan said, adding that it was part of a parent’s responsibility to give their children freedom.
She blamed the media for “propaganda” that painted Lindsay and her lifestyle in a bad light, and the Beverly Hills judge for playing “hardball” with her daughter.
In fact, everyone is to blame for what had happened to Lindsay, apart from Lindsay herself. And Dina.
Mr Bullock, Jesse James, checks into rehab. Sound familiar?
It might come as no surprise to hear that Jesse James, the tattoo-loving husband of Hollywood darling Sandra Bullock, has checked into rehab in the hope of saving his marriage. With four women now claiming to have had affairs with James during his five year marriage to Bullock, his representative told People magazine that he was seeking professional help.
“Jesse checked himself into a treatment facility to deal with personal issues,” his rep said in a statement. “He realized that this time was crucial to help himself, help his family and help save his marriage.”
His rep was not giving details of the treatment or the center but one source confirmed to the magazine that James, 40, a custom motorcycle manufacturer and reality TV star, checked in on March 26. It was said to be “100 percent his own idea,” not an ultimatum from 45-year-old Bullock whose Oscar win for best actress in ”The Blind Side” was quickly overshadowed by her marital problems.
Bullock is said to have moved out of the family home since the scandal erupted on March 15 while James has spent the last two weeks sticking to a routine, dropping his kids at school and working at West Coast Choppers in Long Beach, California.
Does his move into rehab sound familiar? James joins a long lists of celebrities whose reaction to a public scandal has been to check in for treatment. Both golfer Tiger Woods and actor David Duchovny have admitted to seeking treatment for sex addiction, a condition some experts say is becoming more common. Charlie Sheen checked into rehab earlier this year as did his wife Brooke Mueller after he was charged with assault during a marital fight. Actor Rip Torn left rehab this week after being treated for alcohol addiction and pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from his arrest on suspicion of being drunk and armed inside a bank.
Lindsay Lohan in trouble, again?
We have to admit, we were sorry to read these stories. In the past week, celebrity news Web site TMZ has run several items about Lindsay Lohan returning to substance abuse. Their latest report is here, and it deals with Los Angeles police who help protect Lohan from the paparazzi. TMZ cites unnamed “cops” as saying that they have become increasingly concerned about Lohan’s “erratic behavior” which has grown progressively worse. This follows other reports, here and here, about Lohan’s supposed substance abuse and friends being concerned for her safety.
We have no idea if Lindsay is having trouble with drugs and alcohol, again, because we don’t hang out with her and her Hollywood club kid friends. (Her publicist did not respond to the reports on Monday) .
But we do know that she has had her share of troubles in the past. You can read two old reports here and here. We also know that she had talent as an actress, but her ability to stretch that talent seemed to have stopped after 2006′s “A Prairie Home Companion” and “Bobby,” made when Lindsay was still a teenager and before she began landing in rehab.
Who really knows what Lindsay’s problems are or how to fix them. Will more time in rehab work? Should she get out of Hollywood? Does she need new friends? Where’s her family? All good questions. We only hope Lindsay has some good answers and, if in fact she needs to, gets straightened out.
Aerosmith takes flight in June after being grounded in 2008
Summer’s almost here, and the time is right for Aerosmith’s first North American shows in almost two years.
America’s rock ‘n’ roll bad boys, sidelined last year by singer Steven Tyler’s rehab stint and guitarist Joe Perry’s bad knee, said Monday they would begin a three-month amphitheater tour in St. Louis on June 10. The trek will take the band to 33 cities, including Washington on June 21, Houston on July 17, Chicago on Aug. 28, Toronto on Sept. 3, and finally Detroit on Sept. 16. Opening act ZZ Top will join the tour on June 16, when Aerosmith play to a hometown crowd in Boston.
The band is taking a break from recording its first album of new material since 2001′s “Just Push Play.” A band spokeswoman said there was no scheduled release date yet. Aerosmith last toured in 2007, playing 20 countries between April and September. It was forced to scrap a planned festival show in Venezuela this past February because Perry, 58, had to undergo emergency knee surgery caused by unforeseen complications from a total knee replacement in March 2008. Tyler, 61, went into rehab last May, saying he needed “a safe environment” to recover from a series of foot surgeries that proved to be more painful than expected. He will be the top draw at the upcoming Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, which allows civilian rockers to jam with and learn from their heroes. It runs from April 29 to May 3 in Hollywood. Both Perry and Tyler — nicknamed “the Toxic Twins” — and their bandmates were infamous for their hard-partying ways during the 1970s. Since a carefully engineered comeback in the late 1980s, they have largely been models of sobriety.
I first saw Aerosmith on the “Done With Mirrors” tour in 1986 while I was at Texas Tech. I was a casual fan simply attending concerts when they made their way to Lubbock. I was blown away by the intensity and energy of their show, and my ears took several days to completely recover from the high volume.
I saw them again in the early 90s in Dallas with a ladyfriend who was a big fan. Again, I was blown away. If your budget is short on entertainment capital and you have to be judicious in your spending, I recommend you put an Aerosmith show at the top of your list and if you have no money left over, it’s okay. You still got the best bang for the buck.
Tara Reid checks into rehab
Another day in Hollywood; another star in rehab.
Word comes from People magazine and other celebrity news outlets that Tara Reid, 33, who starred in “American Pie” and appeared on U.S. TV show “Scrubs,” has entered the Promises Treatment Center in Malibu, California — the same facility that in the past has been the rehab facility of choice for many a Hollywood star.
People said Reid’s representative Jack Ketsoyan confirmed the actress’s stay at Promises. “We appreciate your respect to her and her family’s privacy at this time,” Ketsoyan told People.
Tom Cruise rejects “diagnosis” from Dr. Drew as Nazi garbage
Tom Cruise is no fan of psychiatry so he wasn’t too happy to get an unsolicited diagnosis from celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky — or so said his representative who compared the diagnosis to the “garbage” of the Nazis.
Pinsky, who hosts the nationally syndicated radio program “Loveline” and appears on cable TV on the VH1 reality show “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew,” was interviewed for the July issue of Playboy, and wondered aloud why Cruise was ”drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology.”
“To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood — maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect,” Pinsky said.
That did not please Cruise, and the actor’s lawyer, Bert Fields, told the New York Post that Pinsky sounded like a Nazi.
“This unqualified television performer, who is obviously just looking for notoriety, is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them,” Fields told the Post. ”He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”
On Thursday, Pinsky’s publicist, Valerie Allen, said in a statement that the doctor ”apologizes if his comments were hurtful.”
She added that Pinsky, who among other jobs is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Keck University of Southern California School of Medicine, was not making a “blanket diagnosis” about Scientology or Cruise, the star of the movies “Mission: Impossible” and “Minority Report.”
I agree that Tom should apologize to Dr. Drew. Compare him to a Nazi? Call him unqualified. Dr. Drew when to school, Tom tried going to 15. In addition how can you call his comments off base if they are probably true.
Cruise has said that he suffered from abuse as a child. This was partially due to his suffering from dyslexia. He stated that when something went wrong, his father came down hard on him. He told Parade Magazine that his father was “a bully” and “a merchant of chaos.” Cruise said he learned early on that his father was – and, by extension, some people were – not to be trusted: “I knew from being around my father that not everyone means me well.” Having gone through fifteen schools in twelve years, Cruise, who dropped his father’s name at age twelve, was also a victim of bullying at school.
Rodney King in rehab — on TV
Rodney King, whose beating at the hands of Los Angeles police officers sparked the city’s riots in 1992, will battle addiction on the VH1 reality show “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew,” officials from the cable TV channel said on Wednesday.
King will be one of several celebrities undergoing detoxification and treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center, outside L.A., VH1 said.
Other celebrities who will appear on the show’s second season include actor Jeff Conaway, model and actress Amber Smith and Steven Adler of the rock band Guns N’ Roses.
The celebrities all checked in to the rehab center on Monday, and they are scheduled to be there for a total of three weeks, said Scott Acord, a spokesman for VH1. The series will begin airing in October.
King has racked up a string of arrests over the years, and he has admitted to a dependency on the drug PCP. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis)
Re: Lindsay Lohan’s mother: In my 37 years of experience, working with substance abuse sufferers– the only solution to achieve sustainable contentment, as it relates to alcoholism or addiction, is either a 12 step program, or a daily commitment to meditate on a specific healing thought for the day. Lindsay Lohan’s mother is not the solution to Lindsay’s problem. Nor does she understand the disease. Lindsay is spiritually bankrupt and she needs a spiritual awakening.