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Demi Lovato Leaves Rehab
Demi Lovato is free! The 18-year-old Sunny With A Chance star checked herself out of an Illinois treatment center on Friday, ending 2 months of treatment at the facility.
Demi entered the facility after a nervous breakdown and unlike many other stars her age she actually stayed for more than a week to receive treatment.
Now that Lovato has completed her inpatient treatment she’ll begin an outpatient program as she gets her life back in order.
It’s not the first time Lovato has been seen in public, during Christmas day she was allowed to leave the facility to spend time with her family,
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Ted Williams Checks Out of Rehab
Ted Williams has checked out of rehab. But this is not as positive of a step as it may sound like for the former panhandler.
Fewer than two weeks after he checked into the Origins Recovery Center in South Texas, TMZ reports that the man who sky-rocketed to fame on the basis of his wonderful voice has left the facility. Against doctor’s orders.
Williams had followed the advice of Dr. Phil in mid-January and supposedly come to the realization that he needed assistance with drug and alcohol dependency. This revelation took place just days after he got into a heated exchange with his
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Montana Fishburne: Screwed By Prosecutors?
Since the release of the Chippy D sex tape last fall, Montana Fishburne became sort of a household name. At least in gossip and/or adult video circles.
Her troubled past has since come to light as well, and the aspiring porn star now says she was jerked around (so to speak) in her assault conviction.
Montana Fishburne blieves she was duped by prosecutors who she says went back on the plea bargain she struck, and her lawyer has court over it.
COME HITHER: Montana would like some raw justice.
Montana’s lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, filed legal papers in L.A., claiming that last June,
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Demi Lovato Spent Christmas with Her Family
Demi Lovato spent Christmas with her family.
The troubled singer, who was stuck inside an Illinois treatment center for Thanksgiving, was granted a half-day reprieve from the facility on Saturday. Sources say she saw a movie with her mother, step-father and two sisters.
“She is doing good and is in good spirits,” an insider says of Demi’s overall progress. “She is committed to the program… She will stay as long as the doctor’s tell her she needs to stay.”
Last week, Lovato settled with Alex Welch, the back-up dancer she punched prior to admitting she needed help.
Report: Demi Lovato is Rehabbing in Illinois
Demi Lovato is receiving treatment at a facility outside of Chicago.
Gossip Center spies say they saw the singer’s family members at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center over the weekend, which is located in Lemont, Illinois.
Information about patients is kept private, of course, but the facility’s website says residents get involved in local causes at “nursing homes, animal shelters, children’s hospitals and veteran’s organizations.
“Volunteer work is an important part of residential treatment because it reinforces the ability to connect with others,” reads the site. “It also
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Justin Bieber: Investigated for Laser Tag-Related Assault
We already knew that Justin Bieber’s looks were so cute, they were criminal.
But might the same be said about his actions at a laser tag facility in Canada?
TMZ reports the singer is being investigated for an incident that took place in British Columbia Friday night, as a 12-year-old boy claims Bieber hit him.
A rep for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police says this boy’s father told them about the alleged assault, while cops confirm they are interviewing witnesses. Further reporting by Canadian blogger Zack Taylor quotes a staffer at the facility who says Justin was cornered by several
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Lindsay Lohan Enters Rehab For Fifth Time
Lindsay Lohan is back in rehab, it’s her fifth trip to a rehab facility in three years, including her recent court ordered Rehab stint.
Lohan checked herself into a Southern California rehab center on Monday night and according to insiders she’s expected to stay in the facility until Oct. 22nd when she will return to court after having failed several recent drug tests, including a failed test for cocaine.
In 2007 Lohan entered rehab three times, citing alcohol and drug addiction, that was the same year she was arrested on a DUI charge.
Insiders close to Lohan insist she wants to get help,
More >Lindsay Lohan Released Early From Rehab
(HMG) – Lindsay Lohan is officially a free woman. She was released from rehab at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Hospital late on Tuesday afternoon after spending only 23 days there. She checked into the facility immediately after serving 13-14 days in jail for violating probation in a 2007 DUI case. A prosecutor and Lindsay Lohan’s attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, are due in court today to discuss the next steps. Lohan, 24, is not required to attend the hearing, court officials said. But she’ll reportedly have to submit to random drug and alcohol testing until August 2011. There is at least one
More >Expert thinks misdiagnosis set Lindsay Lohan on downward cycle
(HMG) – So why did psychiatrists originally think Lindsay Lohan might be bipolar when they examined her before recommending 90 days of rehab, after her prison stint for a probation violation? It seems that people who unnecessarily take Adderall can display manic symptoms, and trigger a host of other problems. Dr. Joe Haraszti — a prominent L.A. addiction specialist, speaking with TMZ believes that Lindsay was misdiagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and says that people who take Adderall when they don’t need it can experience similar effects as people who use
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Lawyers Probe Lindsay Lohan on Body Cavity Search
Lindsay Lohan is certainly no stranger to being on the receiving end of a body cavity search. But a recent one may have violated more than her morals.
If the actress was subjected to a strip search at Lynwood Correctional Facility, lawyers want her to spill every detail of that experience in a deposition.
Lindsay’s name is included in class action lawsuit that alleges unlawful strip and body cavity searches were conducted by L.A. County Sheriff’s deputies.
The lawsuit has been filed on behalf of an inmate (not Lindsay Lohan) who recently checked into the jail. But she may be deposed as
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Jessie Lunderby: Fired for Playboy Spread
Life isn’t always fair for the hot and topless.
Jessie Lunderby, the Arkansas prison guard who was named Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the Week in June, has been fired from her position with the state. (THG note: We’d like to state which position she ought to be in… if you know what we mean!)
Yesterday, the blonde beauty met with law enforcement officials for the first time since they suspended her for this naked pictorial and was told she was being let go because she was “a distraction in the facility.”
We have no idea why that would be the case…
After her photo shoot hit the Web, Lunderby
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