It’s been revealed that Bob Dylan had to battle his way through a heroin addiction back in the early ’60s after an unheard interview with the singer was found.
Dylan’s friend, Robert Shelton, was interviewing the singer on his private plane back in March 1966 when the conversation about his heroin addiction was brought up. Here’s what the singer had to say:
“I kicked a heroin habit in New York City. I got very, very strung out for a while, I mean really, very strung out. And I kicked the habit. I had about a $25-a-day habit and I kicked it.”
Dylan then went on to speak about how that after he was labelled a genius for his music he started to feel suicidal, here’s what he said about that:
“Death to me is nothing … death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. Many times I’ve known I could have been able to die fast, and I could have easily gone over and done it. I’ll admit to having this suicidal thing … but I came through this time. I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something. I’m the kind of cat that would just commit suicide. I’d shoot myself in the brain if things got bad. I’d jump from a window … man, I would shoot myself. You know I can think about death, man, openly.”
According to PopEater these tapes are being used for a movie that is currently in production about Dylan’s life. I can’t say I’m really shocked by this, I mean after all what musician wasn’t strung out at some stage in their life back in the 60s and 70s?
Addiction may be the toughest fight Oscar De La Hoya has seen — the boxing legend is currently seeking help for substance abuse at a California rehab facility, according to TMZ.
The boxing legend is taking to Twitter to reveal a more thoughtful and introspective side — a stark contrast from his persona in the ring.
“Stop finding excuses not to live,” he tweeted. “Life is controlled by what you make of it and not of what it makes of you.”
De La Hoya reportedly entered the facility several weeks ago to battle his demons and it appears that his new world outlook is sticking.
“Take a deep breath and let out all that anger that makes you hate,” he continued to tweet. “It really is going to be o.k.”
De La Hoya boasts an impressive record, having earned several boxing championship belts as well as a 1992 Olympic gold medal. But even with a gold medal hanging around his neck, the legend admits that he has his downfalls.
“After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on,” he told TMZ. “Like everyone, I have my flaws, and I do not want to be one of those people that is afraid to admit and address those flaws.”
Hopefully Oscar De La Hoya can knock out his addictions in the first round — and keep the women’s clothes off.
Just yesterday it was announced that Whitney Houston is in an out-patient rehabilitation program for drugs and alcohol and now she has been given a ban from seeing Prince in concert because she is basically a mess.
TMZ reports that people working for Prince have gotten so sick of her drunken behavior and constant ticket demands so they have now banned her from attending his future shows.
On top of being drunk, and possibly on drugs, at every show she also wanted to get up on stage at most of the shows so they eventually let her up on stage at The Forum in Los Angeles and this is the result of that:
What a mess. In other news, Radar Online are reporting that Whitney’s is going back to the old days with her choice of drugs if Bobby Brown is to be believe. He is going around saying that Whitney is back on crack. A friend of Bobby said “It’s the worst it’s ever been. Whitney went on tour again, and that’s when the relapse occurred. Whitney’s shutting a lot of people out of her life. It is a dire situation.”
Let’s all get a prayer circle together and hope she gets herself together, but I honestly don’t see it happening for a long time.
Earlier today TMZ broke the news that Whitney Houston had checked herself in to an out-patient rehabilitation program but sources close to the singer said it wasn’t for drugs or alcohol. But now it’s been confirmed that it is indeed for drugs.
Whitney entered the program at her own will about 10 days ago to help battle her ongoing trouble with alcohol and drugs, a rep for the singer confirms it telling People:
“Whitney Houston is currently in an out-patient rehab program for drug and alcohol treatment, Whitney voluntarily entered the program to support her long-standing recovery process.”
In the out-patient program Whitney is allowed out in public as long as she wears a montior on her. A source also said that part of the reason she entered this program is to help “cleanse” herself for a new movie.
MSN have come up with a list of 10 men who once had it all but then lost it for different reasons and as they say there can’t be anything worse than achieving your dreams and down blowing it all. Here are those men:
OJ Simpson
OJ Simpson was a record-breaking American footballer and a star of the big screen. Money, looks, fame and women: here was a man who truly had it all. And when he was found not guilty of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman some observers thought he had luck on his side too. Though Simpson was no longer America’s golden boy, at least he wasn’t serving life in a federal prison. And then he really blew it. In 2008, he was found guilty of, among other offences, kidnapping, assault, robbery and using a deadly weapon, and sentenced to 33 years in prison with a minimum of nine years without parole. Few have fallen quite so far as OJ.
Ben Johnson
The Canadian sprinter appeared to reach his athletic peak in 1987 and 1988, setting consecutive world records and winning 100 metres gold at the Seoul Olympics. His victories were initially put down to the motivational qualities of his fierce rivalry with Carl Lewis, who in 1987 had said that he would never lose to Johnson again. Lewis did lose to Johnson again, but three days after the Olympic final the Canadian was disqualified after the banned substance stanozolol was found in his urine. He was later stripped of his world record, too, and his name has become a byword for drugs cheating in athletics. As it turned out, he wasn’t alone. Several sprinters in the same final were later implicated in drugs scandals.
Michael Carroll
He was the self-styled King of Chavs and – to the tabloids – the ‘Lottery Lout’. Michael Carroll won £9.7 million on the lottery in 2002, aged just 19, and spent huge wads of it on drugs, cars, gold jewellery, gambling and prostitutes. Which we guess is what happens when you give a 19-year-old a huge fortune. Carroll was jailed for affray in 2006, and by 2010 was officially bankrupt and claiming jobseeker’s allowance.
Richard Nixon
After losing narrowly to John F Kennedy in 1960 election, Richard Nixon was elected President of the United States in 1968 and immediately set about implementing progressive policies on economics and the environment, and instigating friendlier relations with Russia and China. And if Watergate hadn’t happened, ‘Tricky Dicky’ may have taken his place as one of America’s most successful presidents. But the scandal – in which he was linked to a break in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters – ensured the name of the only president to resign in office would become synonymous with political corruption and the abuse of power.
George Best
It’s often forgotten that George Best left Manchester United behind – and with them the glory years of his career – at the tender age of 27, when many players are still in their prime. But the booze, womanising and gambling had taken its toll, and Best’s very best days were already fading into memory. What followed was a slow and ignominious decline, punctuated by bouts of drink-driving, ill health and public drunkenness. It came as little surprise to many when the most talented footballer the British Isles has ever produced died in 2005 at the age of just 59.
Gerald Ratner
Making a huge business gaffe is now called ‘doing a Ratner’, after the infamous occasion in 1991 when chief executive Gerald Ratner knocked £500 million off the value of the jewellery business that bore his name using a four-letter word to describe the quality of his own products. In his defence, Ratner said he made the comments at a private function and was only joking. Nobody remembers that. They only remember that the boss of one of Britain’s biggest high street jewellers had called his own merchandise “total crap” and said that some of it was “cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn’t last as long.” After the firm’s near collapse, Ratner resigned in 1992.
Jonathan Aitken
When media organisations claimed Jonathan Aitken had flouted ministerial rules in his dealings with leading Saudis, the high-flying Conservative minister called a press conference and said that he would fight “to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play.” The line would come back to haunt him. Aitken sued, but his case against the Guardian newspaper and Granada Television collapsed when evidence of his dishonesty was produced in court. Aitken was charged with perjury and perverting the course of justice and sentenced to 18 months in prison, as well as being declared bankrupt.
Andrew Fastow
In early 2001 Enron was America’s seventh largest company, employing 21,000 staff in 40 countries. By December of the same year it was bankrupt. It was bankrupt because its success was built on shady financial accounting and outright deception. As chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow helped orchestrate a series of loss-making deals and financial schemes at Enron to hide debts from investors, convincing them all was rosy in the garden, when the company in fact owed billions of dollars. Fastow made tens of millions of dollars from these schemes, but is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for his role in the scandal. He was also forced to forfeit a personal fortune of $24 million.
Richard Fuld Jr.
In 2006 one magazine named Richard Fuld Jr, chief executive of investment bank Lehman Brothers, America’s top chief executive in the private sector. Between 1993 and 2007 he received nearly half a billion dollars in pay, bonuses and stock. In March 2008, he was named, admiringly, “Mr Wall Street”. Later in 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed, and thrust the world into the global recession we are only starting to recover from today. In November of that year Fuld sold his $13 million mansion to his wife for the meagre sum of $10. But Fuld’s fall was more one of reputation than material wealth. After the collapse, CNBC named Fuld at the top of its list of “Worst American CEOs of All Time”, and CNN named him one of its 10 “Culprits of the Collapse”.
Jerry Lee Lewis
In the 1950s, Jerry Lee Lewis really did have it all. A pioneer of rock and roll, he’s still the only singer to have two songs hit the No 1 spot in the pop, R&B and country charts simultaneously. It was in 1958 – at the height of his fame and earning power – that Jerry Lee Lewis made the decision that would cost him his reputation and fortune. He married his cousin… who was 13 years old. The backlash was predictable and severe, and his career never recovered. He was inducted into the rock and roll Hall of Fame in 1986, but filed for bankruptcy two years later.
I guess I should be thankful I never succeeded in my dream so I never had to crash and burn in the way that these men have. Well that’s what I’m telling myself anyway.
Vanessa Hudgens was among the many celebrities who attended Coachella over the weekend but she is probably the one who got the most coverage after she spotted licking a white substance off her fingers. Many people assumed she was licking up some coke or ecstasy. Not the case according to her rep.
In between downing shots and beers Vanessa was seen sitting down and dipping her finger into a plastic bag when she took her finger out she was spotted licking up the white substance but her people are saying that the substance was just a bit of white chocolate.
I don’t know what to think, I mean her rep is hardly going to say yeah she was licking up the drugs but at the same time is Vanessa Hudgens really stupid enough to do drugs in the open for everybody to see? What do you think it really is?
Dennis Quaid admits his “biggest mistake” was his addiction to cocaine and candidly writes about his struggle in a Newsweek article.
Quaid, who stars in this month’s ‘Soul Surfer,’ reveals he was introduced to the drug when he moved from Houston to LA in 1974. “It was very casual at first,” he says of his drug use. “That’s what people were doing when they were at parties. Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised.”
“It was supplied, basically, on movie sets because everyone was doing it,” he continues. “People would make deals. Instead of having a cocktail, you’d have a line.”
Quaid says his drug use contributed to his inability to handle his new fame and he essentially turned into a different person.
“I was doing my best imitation of an asshole there for a little while, trying to pretend everything was OK,” he reveals. “Meanwhile my life was falling apart, and I noticed it myself, but I was hoping everyone else didn’t.”
He adds that the addiction began taking over his life, even though he desperately tried to get everything under control.
“I’d wake up, snort a line, and swear I wasn’t going to do it again that day. But then 4 o’clock rolled around, and I’d be right back down the same road like a little squirrel on one of those treadmills,” he writes.
After his band, the Eclectics, broke up after a “crazy” show, Quaid realized it was time to make a change.
“I had one of those white-light experiences that night where I kind of realized I was going to be dead in five years if I didn’t change my ways. The next day I was in rehab,” he writes.
Although he was fueled by drugs in the ’80s, Quaid admits his recovery shaped him into who he is today.
“That time in my life — those years in the ’90s recovering — actually chiseled me into a person. It gave me the resolve and a resilience to persevere in life. If I hadn’t gone through that period, I don’t know if I’d still be acting. In the end, it taught me humility. I really learned to appreciate what I have in this life.”
Just what is it with rock stars and the ashes of deceased family members? First Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richardsadmitted to snorting his late father’s ashes, now Courtney Love admits having the desire to snort Kurt Cobain‘s ashes.
According to author Neil Strauss, currently doing the promotional rounds for his tome, ‘Everybody Loves You When You’re Dead: Journeys Into Fame And Madness’, the Hole singer considered snorting the ashes of her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
Speaking to Radaronline, Strauss said, “She walked to a dresser, pulled open a drawer, and removed a square-shaped tin,” Strauss said. “She removed the lid, revealing a plastic bag full of white ashes.”
Strauss claims that Love then said, “Too bad you don’t do coke. Otherwise I’d suggest taking a metal straw to it.”
He declined the offer, telling the troubled singer, “‘I don’t think that would be the right thing to do,” to which she replied, ‘I’d like to though.’”
He continued, “She was serious when she made the suggestion. She actually said she would offer his ashes to me first to snort and then said she would like them.”
Whitney Houston‘s 18-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown may be in trouble again.
It’s no secret that Houston has had her own battles with drug addiction after much personal-turned-public turmoil and a stint in rehab in the early 2000s. But following photos that recently surfaced of Bobbi Kristina snorting cocaine, Houston is stepping up and stepping in.
According to the National Enquirer, in an attempt to save her adolescent daughter from repeating her own mistakes, the 47-year-old mama has reportedly canceled Bobbi Kristina’s 18th birthday celebration at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, is taking back the Lexus she gifted her daughter and is sending her straight to rehab.
Bobbi Kristina attempted to debunk the cocaine photos on Twitter recently, and now she’s back to shoot down rehab rumors, tweeting, “Excuse me, but I’d like to say that I am NOT going to rehab? I’m perfectly healthy and I am not addicted to anything but life.”
Houston credits her own mother, Cissy Houston, with saving her from her addiction to crack cocaine. Houston told Oprah in 2009 that her mother forced her to rehab after getting a court injunction that allowed her to stage an intervention with armed police at Houston’s door in 2004.
Bobbi Kristina’s father — R&B bad boy and Houston’s ex-husband, Bobby Brown — has a drug history of his own, and his daughter seems to be following in both her parents’ hard-partying footsteps. This isn’t the first news of the famous offspring’s teen troubles. Rumors have also recently surfaced of a Bobbi Kristina sex tape.
I actually forgot all about Seann William Scott that was until I read that he checked himself into a treatment facility last night, his rep says it’s for “health and personal issues.”
“Seann William Scott has voluntarily admitted himself for proactive treatment to address health and personal issues. He appreciates the support of his many fans at this time.”
It’s unknown what exactly his personal issues are, it could basically be anything. But I find it strange that his rep released a statement for his “many” fans, let’s be honest if it wasn’t for this rep nobody would notice that he was in a facility. Either way I hope he gets bet the treatment he needs.
Chris Brown seems to always find himself in some kind of controversy and now the latest, not long after his nude photos leaking, he was spotted by X17 (via Allie Is Wired) smoking something that looks like weed.
Not only was he smoking something that looks like weed but he broke another law – talking on his cellphone. I sure would like to know how he’s managing to drive because both of his hands are of the wheel.
Decide for yourself – do you think it’s weed that Chris Brown is smoking?
Ok it’s that time of the day when I try my best to catch up with all the latest shenanigans out of Charlie Sheen and to be quite honest I don’t even know where to begin. I suppose I’ll start with after he got fired from Two and a Half Men yesterday he up on a roof waving around a machete and drinking tiger’s Blood.
Not long after it was announced that Charlie had been fired from the show he went on top of a building with the machete and tiger’s blood and started chanting that he is “free at last! free at last!” to a crowd of people that gathered below. After this he then went home and uploaded the latest episode of his UStream show, Sheen’s Korner, which you can watch now:
Next up… it’s been announced that Bree Olson, one of his “goddesses”, has been given a 2-day trial in her DUI case to prove that she wasn’t drink driving in Indiana last month. She was pulled over last month after she crashed her car and when cops gave her a breathalyzer she blew a .19. Her trial will start in June.
Lastly TMZ is reporting that Chuck Lorre, the creator of Two and a Half Men, is in meetings with hopes to continue the show without Sheen. And they are apparently looking at having Rob Lowe replace Sheen. But as TMZ points out, there is two problems with this – Lowe grew up with the Sheen family and he is currently attached to another show. But either way it seems like there still might be hope for Two and a Half Men to stay on air.
I’ll end this post by saying two things: 1. by the time I actually hit publish I’m sure there will be yet another news story about him and 2. if you’re sick of hearing about Charlie Sheen there is now an app for Firefox and Google Chrome that can block his image and name from popping up on your browser, if I didn’t have to write about him I would definitely be using this.
Okay I love a good train-wreck as much as the next person but I seriously can’t keep up with Charlie Sheen, anytime I read something there is a new development. The latest is he has just been fired from Two and a Half Men. Warner Bros released this statement:
“After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on Two and a Half Men effective immediately.”
Since he is living in cuckoo land the fact that he has lost a job which pays him $2 million per episode doesn’t faze Sheen at all who spoke to TMZ and said this:
“This is very good news. They continue to be in breach, like so many whales. It is a big day of gladness at the Sober Valley Lodge because now I can take all of their bazillions, never have to look at whatshiscock again and I never have to put on those silly shirts for as long as this warlock exists in the terrestrial dimension.”
TMZ also got their hands on a letter that Warner Bros sent to Sheen’s lawyer which explains why they fired him, in it they said they had every right to fire him and there was a clause in his contract which says they can fire anybody that “commits a felony offense involving moral turpitude,” they also say he appears to be very ill. His lawyer is demanding that they pay him for the eight canceled episodes or else they will sue. Warner Bros say they will counter sue him if he tries.
It’s unclear if Two and a Half Men will be completely canceled or if they will continue on with Charlie Sheen. Either way this whole thing is a mess, I can’t see what happens next.
Christina Aguilera and her boyfriend Matt Rutler were arrested early Tuesday morning in West Hollywood, according to TMZ.
The pop singer was booked on a misdemeanor charge for public intoxication, while Rutler also faces a misdemeanor charge for driving under the influence.
Police reports state Aguilera was booked as 5’2″ and 100 pounds.
This the latest bump in the road for the singer, who faced public ridicule when she botched the national anthem at the Super Bowl and then stumbled onstage at the Grammys.
Reports swirled in January that Aguilera’s hard-partying ways were getting out of control.
Aguilera and Rutler have been dating since last fall. Aguilera’s divorce from husband Jordan Bratman was finalized last month.
It seems like Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino has watched the ending scene of Cruel Intentions a little too many times because he has apparently been caught snorting cocaine from his coke chain.
The Fork Party took these photos and video from last weeks episode of Jersey Shore in which The Situation robbed Pauly D’s ex-girlfriend and started getting freaky with her on the dancefloor. But it seems he was doing a bit more than just dancing.
While getting down on the dancefloor The Situation decided to examine his necklace with his nose and also gave the girl a little sniff of it, after that they both wiped their nose. Some people could say it’s coincidence and they both just have a runny nose but I’m willing to bet that they were indeed doing a bit of coke. Thoughts?
