Posted on 12/29/2001 12:11:29 AM PST by truther
Photographs showing former first daughter Chelsea Clinton staggering bleary eyed into a popular London watering hole will appear in next week's edition of the supermarket tabloid Globe Magazine.
The Globe's cover story headline, "Boozing Chelsea: Clinton Daughter Out of Control," appears over a photo of an unidentified friend grabbing Chelsea by the face in an apparent effort to keep her from passing out.
Other Globe photos show Clinton, eyes bloodshot and looking disoriented, reeling as she emerges from a car with friends, one of whom is steadying her by the arm as the group weaves its way into the popular London nightspot Groucho.
"I thought Chelsea was about to topple over," a source who witnessed the scene tells the tabloid. "She was wobbling on her feet and a friend had to put her arm out to steady her."
The Globe reprints one passage from a British media report that claims: "Looks like Chelsea Clinton stumbled on a staggeringly good time when she hit London's West End this week. And it took a firm pair of hands to stop her from actually hitting the pavement as she swayed happily into the trendy Groucho Club, where dad Bill - the former U.S. president - was partying with U2 star Bono."
The drunken night out was not an isolated incident, according to others cited by the Globe, one of whom said the former first daughter is "spinning out of control."
"Chelsea's out on the town into the early hours every chance she gets," a Clinton schoolmate adds. "She loves a good time, but everything seems to revolve around drinking."
If the reports are accurate, Clinton's problems with alcohol would mirror a family pattern that saw her Uncle Roger finally admit to a life-long addiction to booze and drugs just last summer after entering an Arizona drug rehab center to dry out.
Last month another of Chelsea's uncles, Tony Rodham, admitted that he was boozing and smoking marijuana with a neighbor before he ended up entwined on the living room couch with the man's girlfriend.
In her younger days Clinton's grandmother Virginia was a fixture on the Little Rock party scene, with one account describing her as "a barfly."
According to one friend quoted by the Globe, Chelsea has turned to liquor "as a defense against jokes about her father and Monica Lewinsky and jibes about Hillary."
"One night when somebody cracked a Clinton joke, she walked into the bar and ordered a double vodka on the rocks," the source told the tabloid. "She downed it in two swallows and then walked out."
Last week the New York Post's Page Six reported that Clinton attended a New York party with sportstars Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter and Ahmad Rashad where "bottles of Veuve Clicquot and vodka" were consumed, but made no mention of Chelsea herself bellying up to the bar.
The Globe reported in April that the former first daughter was spotted boozing it up for spring break at several popular nightspots in Aspen, Colo.
i can see a movie coming:
'carrot top meets pee wee herman-their BIG adventure'
With the exception of those 2 parts, however, Worst Movie Ever.
I still call my wife from time to time & do the "and then" thing when she's not expecting it.
She gets really annoyed at me.
What did bush call it ? Caring conservatism? Not here
Here it is blind Bush worship and mindless clinton hatred.(I hate the man but that does not extend to his daughter..his first victim)
The only "right position" here is Bush idol worship and pure Clinton hatred.......there is no moral high ground here anymore......no more government watchdog FR....
If Chelsea really has developed an alcohol abuse problem, then I feel sorry for her. I also pity her for the miserable, wicked swine who are her (putative) parents. But she's an adult who has interjected herself into the national spotlight, e.g., the Talk Magazine article, and she should know better than to get stinking drunk or otherwise misbehave in a public place where the press is bound to see and report on it. I'd guess the Bush girls have learned their lesson. Is Chelsea really not smart enough to have done the same?
You of course have PROOF of this somewhere, right?
It does when you see the same people crying that the press is "unfair" to the bush "girls" doing handsprings about this..
Personally I do not care what the former 1st daughter does ..poor thing,look what raised her!
r pubbies have their drunk daughters 2.
come to think of it, i did that when i was at that age.
And when that happens I will oppose her..till then compassion !
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