What is this - eighteen strikes, and you’re out? How sickening that this lowlife who is looked up to by so many young girls keeps getting chance after chance, because, let’s face it - she’s a celebrity and she’s rich and she’s young and pretty.
I know not everyone here is going to agree with me, but I find it very sad; not surprising, but sad.
For one thing her father did time in prison for securities fraud and was later sent back to prison for “aggravated unlicensed driving” and attempted assault. Her mother is her “manager” who had her professionally modeling at three and is a “party girl” in her own right. Enough said – she got dealt the crummy parent card.
But bad parents or not, this young woman has a very serious addiction to drugs and alcohol and all her fame and money and all the enabling that comes with that lifestyle is not helping her one bit.
What she really needs is some “tough love” and instead of a stay at some so-called rehab like “Promises” in Malibu that is nothing more than a luxury spa where publicists send their clients to for show, she needs to spend some time in a real jail (where she belongs after her latest offense) then to a real hard-core rehab where she’d be told the truth - “you are a drunk, an addict and a bum” but “it doesn’t have to be that way anymore”. She needs to get away from Hollywood and from all her enablers and after rehab, go to a real half way house where, if she’s willing, she’d be taught how to live a clean and sober life and live a program of recovery.
I’ve know people who have hit bottoms so low that most people would write them off to the rag pile of society as hopeless cases. Some of these people had lousy parents or no parents per se and some came from very good homes with loving families. Some never make it and die an unimaginably horrible death, but many can and do come back and turn their life around to eventually become people who you would never believe ever came from such a place.
Just like another alcoholic or addict out there, I know she’s suffering and I hope she hits her bottom and gets it before it’s too late for her or before she kills someone else.
I don't know what the curriculum at Promises rehab center was, but some rehab centers actually try to teach control of alcohol and not total abstinence. The first step to recovery is admitting that your are powerless over alcohol (or drugs).
"The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his liquor drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker."- Chapter 3, AA Big Book
Everyone I know asks the same question as word of each celebrity DUI is made public. Why in the hell can’t these people hire a driver/car service/cab/sober friend. With the resources they have it is mind boggling and these people need to be locked up.