I think she's a beard.
Posted on 01/25/2011 8:09:27 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Ted Williams -- the homeless man with the "Golden Voice" -- has left rehab against medical advice, less than two weeks after checking in for drug and alcohol dependency ... TMZ has learned.
Our sources say Ted -- who decided to go to rehab earlier this month after a taping of the Dr. Phil show -- left the Origins Recovery Center in South Texas moments ago and is on his way to the airport.
Ted's girlfriend is currently in rehab at the Safe Harbor facility in Costa Mesa, California.
Story developing...
Maybe they’ll find someone who deserves the job...like someone who has lost their job, but didn’t run to drugs and alcohol to lose themselves in. There’s plenty of people out there who have been thrown a curve ball in life, but didn’t find it necessary to lean on drugs and alcohol to get through every day.
Worst of all he now risks losing his hot girlfriend.
Smoking 4 packs of Kools a day = “a Golden Voice”
I agree. Day-am! How could he mess up this GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY??
How does this surprise anyone? Even some conservatives were taken in by this BS artist. The back story on this guy is that he was engaging in drug use and criminal activity right up until the time he was “discovered.” He had a semi-blind wife who was trying to raise kids alone who deserved the sympathy that he got.
This is a perfect example of why money won’t solve the homeless problem. Despite what the MSM and social services bureacracy wants you to think, the homeless are not “just like you and me” or average people who have fallen on hard times. They have pretty severe character defects—drug use, laziness, blaming others for their problems, a complete lack of personal responsibility. True, some are insane and should be re-institutionalized on a long-term basis but can’t be (thanks ACLU). But solving the “homeless problem” is more a moral and cultural issue than a money issue. The homeless have to change their thinking before giving them a hand will work. That is a huge task.
LOL
I agree. The line about 2 years sober was delivered TOO convincingly. I was once a cocaine smoker myself (freebase) and I know the lifestyle. I am one of the lucky ones, who finally got out with the help of HP and 12 Steps.
I’m not surprised but I’m still pulling for the guy.
He clearly has mental health issues and between a virtual lifetime of drug addiction and alcoholism the odds are stacked against him.
Hope he tries again soon before he falls too far back into the abyss and that one of his attempts is successful.
It's part of addiction. Nothing matters more than your next hit. NOTHING.
Problem is, Ted Williams gets THIS ONE CHANCE and no others.
It definitely does, can vouche for that.
I used to be addicted to pistachio nuts but I quit my habit by weening myself off it with the nut version of methadone-—cashew nuts.
People only change when and if they want to. No other factor is in the equation.
What is HP?
Ted figures he has a better future serving in Congress. After all, if a drunk like Ted Kennedy could manage it, why couldn’t he? The scariest part is, some fools would vote for him.
“I say this as a recovering alcoholic of 14+ years”.
Congratulations! I agree, someone has to WANT to recover.
I think she's a beard.
“Ted’s girlfriend is currently in rehab at the Safe Harbor facility in Costa Mesa, California”
No doubt in my mind, Ted is heading to Costa Mesa. Warm sea breezes and he can get him some.
This is such a shock to me. Who would have figured?
HP is Higher Power. It is the God of My Understanding.
Looks like the pipe is calling Ted to come back home...
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