Rehab Report Card

The celeb freshmen and graduates of rehab!

Some stars treat their time in re-hab as a spa getaway, while others get clean and sober and never look back. Here we take a look at some of the rehab freshmen and graduates over the years, and give them an update report.

Colin Farrell:

“[Rehab] was horrible in one way, because I went away because I was pretty sick,” the Miami Vice and S.W.A.T. actor once said. “But in another way it was great, because it was a very safe environment with a bunch of people who were looking to sort out things in their life. But I don’t want to go back.” The hard-partying Irish actor says he did his time in rehab [December 2005-January 2006] for his son James, 3, because after fifteen years of craziness, just wanted to be a better dad. “I wanted to be clear, be around him, and remember being with him.”

Update: So far so good!

Lindsay Lohan:

“I have made a proactive decision to take care of my personal health,” Lindsay said in the statement, released by her publicist Leslie Sloane. “I appreciate your well wishes and ask that you please respect my privacy at this time.” That statement was released by Lohan, 20, this January, just after she entered the $1,750-a day Wonderland rehab facility on trendy yet rustic Laurel Canyon Blvd., in West Hollywood. It didn’t seem to Celebrity Babylon that the Mean Girl’s star was taking it all too seriously, however, as she was seen out clubbing just days later.

Update: Photographed out partying when you release a statement about checking into rehab – not a good omen of things to come.

Britney Spears:

Getting world peace seems like it would be easier than what it took to get the 25-year-old pop star into rehab! It took Spears’ soon-to-be ex hubby Kevin Federline, 28, threatening to take full legal custody of their sons Sean, 1, and Jayden, 5 months, before she heeded the wake up call and checked in to Promises in Malibu, on the morning of February 21. This third time may just be the charm, as the bald one hasn’t bolted yet, and it appears that family members and friends are truly gathering to support her, and not just saying that they are doing so! Update: After almost a week, there’s no signs that Britney is digging her way out of her room with a eyelash curler and a nail file.

Charlie Sheen:

“I saw [the film] 28 Days. I don’t remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It’s a big dumping ground.” Sheen, 41, should know, the notorious hooker-and-drug lovin’ bad boy entered rehab at the request of his father, actor Martin Sheen, 66, and his lawyers. I was never shut down by the drugs; that was my problem. Cocaine was an aphrodisiac. I think that was a bit of a curse.” Sheen has his act enough together now to have the top sitcom Two and a Half Men on CBS, and is often seen out and about with his two daughters (Sam, 2, and Lola, 1) by ex-wife Denise Richards, 35.

Update: We see more than a glimmer of the “old Charlie” when he chain-smokes cigarettes!

Nicole Richie:

While on the show Oprah last year, Nicole opened up about how her parent’s divorce when she was 13, led to her ultimate addictions to drugs and alcohol. Her parents Lionel and Brenda Richie begged her to go into rehab. But just one week before she was supposed to check in, she was arrested [February 2003] while driving and police found a balloon of heroin. “I was extremely, extremely scared,” she explains. Out on probation, the incident scared her straight into counseling. Once inside rehab, entire family participated in heavy therapy. “Everything came out,” Nicole says. “I was definitely trying to mask hurt, abandonment. I had no idea I was feeling this way.”

Update: Richie, 25, didn’t stay on the straight and narrow for long, getting nabbed for a DUI on December 11 and admitting to cops she had used Vicodin and marijuana.

Robert Downey Jr.:

“It’s like I have a loaded gun in my mouth, and I like the taste of metal,” Robert Downey Jr., once said of his addictions to, well, you name it. Even jail time couldn’t sever the ties between addiction and the talented but troubled actor. His troubles began, he says, when his father offered him a “joint” at age 8! After that, it was probation, suspended licenses, jail time, rehabs, waking up at a stranger’s Malibu house, Wonder Woman costumes in a Palm Springs hotel room, and more. He famously infuriated other jail inmates when he was allowed out to shoot a movie!

Update: Good. His August 2005 marriage to film producer Susan Downey seems to have kept him on the straight and narrow, and out of the tabloids.

Ben Affleck:

“I’ve never been very judicious about my own behavior or choices until they had an impact on people other than me,” says Affleck, 34, who was driven to Promises rehab by his pal Charlie Sheen in August 2001, at the same time as one of Robert Downey Jr’s stays, and comedienne Paula Poundstone. At the time, Affleck’s recovery wasn’t taken too seriously, after all, he was let out at the drop of a hat, to go to a sporting event, press junket, or an ice cream cone. At the cost of $48,000 for a 30-day stay at Promises, you would think Affleck would want to be getting his money’s worth!

Update: There have been little glitches in his recovery over the years, but none since the birth of his daughter Violet, 1, with wife Jennifer Garner, 34.

Kate Moss:

Having her photo “Cocaine Kate” splashed across the front of London’s Mirror tabloid in September 2005, got Kate Moss into the Meadows rehab in Arizona. With a career in the modeling business, where a size-0 is considered overweight, and a drug-addicted boyfriend like British rocker Pete Doherty, 27, it was just a matter of time before Moss got caught with her nasty habit. At the time of media scandal, it was said that the supermodel would lose all of her lucrative contracts with Burberry, H&M, and Chanel. But that doesn’t seem to have had an effect on her career at all, in fact, you can’t walk down the street without seeing Moss on a Billboard, on TV, or in a magazine.

Update: Not good. Photos have emerged of Moss looking fairly out of it at Doherty’s concerts.

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Associated Press says NO PARIS!

The Associated Press declared its plans to boldly go where few wire services would dare to go in this day and age: the no–Paris Hilton zone.

“Next week,” entertainment editor Jesse Washington wrote in an e-mail memo obtained by The Transom, “the print team is planning an unconventional experiment: We are NOT going to cover Paris Hilton.

“Barring any major, major news, we are not going to put a single word about Paris on the wire,” the memo continued. “If something does come up, big or small, we encourage discussions on whether we should write about it.”

The results of the experiment, naturally, will be fodder for a future A.P. story. “Hopefully we will be able to discuss what ‘news’ we missed,” read the memo, which could have used some stern copy-editing, “the repercussions of our blackout for AP both editorially and business-wise, and most importantly the force that cause the world to be fixated on this person who, despite her shallow frivolity, represents an epochal development in our culture.”

Reached for comment, Mr. Washington said, “There was a surprising amount of hand-wringing. A lot of people in the newsroom were saying this was tampering with the news.” One editor’s response was apparently: “This is a great idea—can we add North Korea?”

Mr. Washington said he was inspired by the fact that, in the past year, Ms. Hilton has appeared on the A.P. wire about twice a week.

“We got lucky,” he said. “Totally by accident, her birthday party was the day before we started the experiment. There really weren’t any major news stories involving Paris, so we didn’t have that many really tough decisions to make.” Though “her name did pop up in a couple stories, despite my best efforts.”

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‘Idol’ chatter dominates Playboy bash

More and more, it seems, the pasts of young reality star hopefuls are threatening their shots at stardom. American Idol contestant Antonella Barba, 20, has become the latest to don the scarlet letter as photos of her with her top dropped have led to speculation that the Fox network may drop her.

Hugh Hefner, who knows a thing or two about nudity in photos, calls such condemnation “hypocritical and dumb.”

At a party Tuesday night at his Playboy Mansion to celebrate the third-season premiere of his E! reality show, The Girls Next Door (Sunday, 10 p.m. ET/PT), Hefner said, “I think in America we have a very strange attitude toward sexuality and nudity, and it makes no real sense.”

Hefner, 80, spoke these words while seated on a sofa next to his famous grotto, the site of many an infamous sexcapade. At his side were girlfriends Holly Madison, 27, Bridget Marquardt, 33, and Kendra Wilkinson, 21, all roped of from the riffraff and protected by security.

Hef was soon joined by Ryan Seacrest, producer of E!’s newest reality series, Paradise City, which makes its debut right after Hef’s show and focuses on singles trying to make it in Las Vegas. The Idol host, along with show judges Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell, were among the very few men allowed into Hefner’s inner sanctum.

Cowell believes photos showing nudity should not be grounds for dismissal. “These people haven’t done anything illegal; that’s their private life,” he stressed. He believes that the racy photos of Barba should “not affect her standing on the show, and if the public wants to keep her in, they’ll keep her in.” (Barba performs with the remaining female singers on Wednesday’s show; two men and two women will be eliminated Thursday.)

“Nobody’s clean in the entertainment business,” seconded Jackson, recalling Frenchie Davis, who was famously booted from Idol in Season 2 when it was revealed that she had worked for an adult website. “There are definitely some moral things that go on with this show.”

It is the morals of the person who leaked the Barba photos that Seacrest finds most repugnant. “It’s just tacky, disgusting,” said Seacrest. “You’ve got a girl who’s trying to make it on a show where she needs a vote, and someone’s trying to tear that away from her.”

Though he said he had not yet seen the photos, Seacrest added that he would “absolutely let (Barba) stay on. If American Idol is a true representation of American youth, we’re going to find imperfections. And it’s OK to be imperfect.”

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Ace Frehley is alive

Rumors of former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley’s suicide began to circulate around the Internet on Friday, Feb. 23rd, but it appears they turned out to be false. Instead, Frehley is said to be in good health and still working on a new solo studio album and even a couple of film projects.

Reports started to circulate the Internet on Friday that Frehley had committed suicide by taking pills, and was reported dead at 2 a.m., Friday, Feb. 23rd. However, there had been official report from Frehley’s people, KISS, or even a credible news agency.

Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia also listed Frehley as dead from suicide, but stated more information concerning the death had yet to be reported or confirmed. It has since removed the death information.

Frehley is said to have taken the news of his death well, reportedly responding: “I don’t know how this ridiculous rumor got started.”

Ace Frehley (who’s real name is Paul Daniel Frehley) was born on April 27, 1951, and was one of the original members of the iconic rock band Kiss. Frehley left the band in 1982 to pursue a solo career. He rejoined Kiss in 1996 for a reunion tour and new album, but left again in 2002 during its Farewell Tour.