Jim Jones & Chrissy by Cam9412
Jim Jones & Chrissy by Cam9412
Celebrity Rehab star and country singer Mindy McCready made headlines last week for allegedly kidnapping her own son, Zander, away from her mother, who has legal custody of the boy. McCready gave an interview to ABC’s 20/20 on Friday to tell her side of the story and clear her name of the kidnapping charges. She defends herself, saying “I’m not a kidnapper. I’m not an unfit mother. I’m not a drug addict. I’m not an alcoholic. I’m none of these things that have been said about me.” McCready goes on in detail about her struggle to regain custody of Zander and how both the child and her grandmother consider McCready’s mother, Gayle Inge, to be abusive and unfit to care for him. Inge denies the allegations.
Watch the entire clip and let us know what you think about the situation.
The stories of the patients of Celebrity Rehab are often about heartbreak, troubled pasts, and redemption, and this week, we’re (finally) taking a look at a few of the stars from the very first season of the series, whose stories combine all three. Dr. Drew Pinsky and Bob Forrest reconnected with four of the original celebrities to give us the first episode in a four-part series called Celebrity Rehab Revisited, and while their behavior in the past hasn’t always been stellar, they’ve all managed to prove to themselves and to us that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Over the past five years, Dr. Drew has helped countless people, famous or not, battle addiction. After this latest season of Celebrity Rehab, Dr. Drew and Bob Forrest went back to check on the cast ninety days after they left the Pasadena Recovery Center to find out how they’ve fared after rehab, and this month we’ll finally be revisiting the patients from the first four seasons of Celebrity Rehab as well. Starting on November 20 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Dr. Drew and Bob will catch up weekly with some of the most infamous patients they’ve dealt with over the first four seasons, from Marey Carey to Andy Dick to Heidi Fleiss and Tom Sizemore. The full schedule and cast listings for Celebrity Rehab Revisited is after the jump.
“CELEBRITY REHAB WITH DR. DREW REVISITED”
One-Hour Specials Revisit Patients from the First Four Seasons of
“Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew”
“Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Revisited” Premieres
Wednesday, November 20th at 9pm*
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Anyone who saw even a few moments of the fifth season of Celebrity Rehab knows that Michael Lohan and Kate Major have a relationship that’s best described as “combustible.” The on-again, off-again couple is apparently on-again and, as we’ve come to expect when these two get together, something apparently went majorly awry with them last night.
TMZ is reporting that Michael Lohan is currently “cooling his ass” in a Tampa area jail after being arrested on domestic violence charges last night. Lohan, no stranger to the pokey, was taken away in cuffs after 1 a.m. this morning, but complained of chest pains while on his way to jail, leading the Tampa P.D. to take him to an area hospital before dropping him off at the big house. While at the hospital, TMZ is reporting that Lohan attempted to “slip out of the hospital on his own”—where we come from, they call that trying to escape—but he was quickly apprehended and put behind bars. Sorry, Michael; to use your own words, it looks as if you’re still “stuck on stupid.”
Michael Lohan BUSTED For Domestic Violence [TMZ]
Four months after his death, the results of an autopsy performed on actor and Celebrity Rehab star Jeff Conaway have been released. L.A. County Coroner Craig Harvey has declared that Conaway’s death at the age of 60 was accidental and caused by a major internal infection. Harvey said that a toxicology test was not performed because Conaway had been hospitalized for weeks prior to his death and his blood would not have shown signs of drug use.
Conaway was admitted to the hospital on May 10 and spent two weeks in a coma before passing away on May 27, 2011.
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The fifth season of Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew has been a rocky one to be sure. The Pasadena Recovery Center has housed one of the most tumultuous, volatile groups of celebs to date, and their graduation from the facility is fast-approaching.
The finale of season five airs this Sunday, August 21 at 9 p.m. (where did the time go?), but that doesn’t mean it’s the last we’re seeing of this crew. VH1 will also be airing a two-part special on September 4th and September 11th at 10 p.m. which will follow-up on this group’s progress and what kind of post-rehab life they’ve been living.
And later this fall, Dr. Drew and Bob Forrest will also be starring in a series of Celebrity Rehab specials to catch up with all the previous seasons’ patients, the definitive “Where Are They Now?” for everyone who’s been on the show. All the information and air dates for those shows are posted after the jump.
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Ever since news broke that Amy Winehouse had been found dead at 27, the outpouring of grief (including dozens of comments on our announcement) has been a stark reminder of how much, and to how many people, Winehouse continued to matter as an artist. Fans have left tribute comments not only on Winehouse’s own videos on YouTube, but also barely-related ones like Britney Spears’s “If You Seek Amy,” just because they’re looking for any outlet to grieve. As we noted earlier, a range of performers voiced tribute on Twitter, but for some, 140 characters wasn’t enough.
Big Boi shared a previously unreleased Dungeon Family remix of her song “Tears Dry On Their Own”:
Another musical tribute came courtesy of M.I.A., who’d recorded a demo of a tribute to friends who’d died at 27, and when she heard about Amy Winehouse, tweeted a link to the (unfinished and unreleased) track as a tribute to Winehouse, yet another friend who’d passed at that age:
Several performers blogged touching tributes. Adele‘s “Amy Flies in Paradise xx”, praised the way in which both her sheer talent and her unwillingness to compromise led to a minor sea change in British pop: “Amy paved the way for artists like me and made people excited about British music again whilst being fearlessly hilarious and blasé about the whole thing. I don’t think she ever realised just how brilliant she was and how important she is, but that just makes her even more charming.”
And although the autopsy has just begun today, and toxicology reports will take weeks, the popular consensus is that Winehouse’s death was caused, directly or indirectly, by her struggles with addiction. Dr. Drew tweeted, “SO sad, another lost to addiction. A reminder this is often a fatal condition. Recovery is possible, but sadly not for Amy Winehouse.” But perhaps the most touching tribute on this subject comes from Russell Brand, a fellow performer who famously struggled with issues of addiction. His post For Amy, about the inevitability of one of two types of “the phone call,” is a must-read. We recommend you click through to it, but the multitude of hits has swamped his site, so just in case you can’t get through, we’ve reposted his tribute in its entirety below.
Although Amy Winehouse‘s struggles with substance abuse had become arguably just as well known as her music over the last few years, no one expected to hear the tragic news that she passed away at age 27 today. Understandably, hundreds of thousands of people took to Twitter to express their sadness, frustration, and even anger that the incredibly talented Winehouse could never find the strength to pull her life together and get sober. Below, we’ve pulled a small sample of reactions from her peers, her collaborators and her admirers as they bid farewell to the latest member of the 27 Club.
—Musician Katy Perry (@katyperry)
—Musician and frequent Winehouse collaborator Mark Ronson (@MarkRonson)
See the reactions of the Mob Wives, Kelly Osbourne and more below.
Radar Online reports that Jeff Conaway was given a private memorial service on Tuesday in Encino, California, and many of his close friends and former so-stars were in attendance.
Attendees included Conaway’s former fiancee Vikki Lizzi, his Taxi co-star Christopher Lloyd, actors Corey Feldman and Ron Jeremy, and fellow Celebrity Rehab patients Amber Smith, Mary Carey. The service included a performance from The Temptations, who sang “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye” in Conaway’s honor. One guest told Radar “there wasn’t a dry eye in the house” during the service.
Conaway passed away on May 27 at the age of 60 and will be greatly missed.
