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Post by beatlies on Aug 16, 2013 15:40:13 GMT -5
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Post by beatlies on Aug 16, 2013 15:43:39 GMT -5
HomeLisa Robin Kelly Dead -- 'That '70s Show' Star Dies at 43 R.I.P. 8/15/2013 11:33 AM PDT UPDATED: 8/15/2013 12:48 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF 'THAT '70S SHOW' STAR DEAD AT 43 EXCLUSIVELisa Robin Kelly -- who played Eric Forman's older sister on "That '70s Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
The 43-year-old actress passed away in her sleep Wednesday night at a rehab facility in California.
We spoke with Kelly's agent who tells us the actress had just voluntarily checked herself in for treatment for an alcohol problem this past week ... and was determined to clean herself up.
The agent tells us, "She had been fighting demons for a while and finally lost her battle."
Sources tell us Lisa had been in and out of rehab centers hoping to kick her alcohol problem ... and most recently fell off the wagon after a huge dispute with her estranged husband Robert Gilliam.
Sources say ... Kelly's estranged husband beat her last May to obtain residual money from her show. He was convicted of domestic battery last month and sentenced to 3 years probation. He also served 35 days in jail for the beating.
Lisa filed for divorce from Gilliam back in July.
We're told Lisa's new boyfriend brought her to rehab again on Monday ... but she went into cardiac arrest late Wednesday night and could not be saved.
The boyfriend blames her estranged husband for the relapse.
Sources connected with the attempted rescue tell TMZ ... when emergency responders arrived at the rehab facility, they found needle marks on both of Lisa's arms.
However, her BF tells us the reason for the needle marks is that he took Lisa to a hospital on Sunday -- because she had a .34 blood alcohol level ... and nurses made multiple attempts to insert a needle into her vein to extract blood.
After several attempts, medical personnel were able to use a vein on the top of Lisa's wrist.
Kelly had been troubled for the past couple of years -- she was arrested at least 4 times in the past 3 years for DUI, spousal abuse and assault.
Besides "That '70s Show," Kelly had appeared in several TV shows and movies including "Amityville Dollhouse."
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Post by superman on Aug 20, 2013 17:44:11 GMT -5
Interesting info about the late Mr. Thompson at 7:13 Former Disney Channel Star Lee Thompson Young Found DeadLee Thompson Young, a former Disney Channel star who appeared on "Rizzoli & Isles," was found dead this morning at the age of 29. Police confirmed that the versatile young actor died in an apparent suicide of a gunshot wound. TMZ reports that Young’s landlord found him when he did not report to the set of the TNT drama this morning. When officers arrived to his apartment at the 5000 block of Tujunga Avenue, they pronounced him dead at the scene. There is no word on whether Young left a note, and the coroner is taking over the case. After the end of the series, Young appeared in Jamie Foxx's "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story" and in the "Friday Night Lights" movie as Chris Comer. He also landed guest roles in TV shows including "The Guardian," "South Beach," and "Smallville." In 2009, Young starred in the short-lived sci-fi drama "FlashForward" as an FBI agent who commits suicide to prevent a death. His latest work was in TNT's "Rizzoli & Isles" as Det. Barry Frost, Rizzoli's (Angie Harmon) partner. The show halted production today as the cast and crew grieved over Young’s death and it’s unclear when filming will resume. Young graduated with honors from the University of Southern California.
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Post by artemis on Nov 5, 2013 15:56:13 GMT -5
Sounds more like mind control to me under this disguise....
'I was part of a cult that believed you can live without food or WATER', admits actress Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer has revealed that she was once part of a cult – which taught that humans can exist without food or water.
The 55-year-old actress explained how she had become involved with a ‘controlling’ couple when she first moved to Hollywood in her early twenties.
The pair, who believed in ‘breatharianism’, tried to convert the star – and put her on a diet that ‘nobody could adhere to’.
She claims she was only saved when she was introduced to her first husband Peter Horton.
The actor had been cast in a film about the Moonies, followers of Rev Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church.
While she was helping him research the role, it dawned on her that she too was a member of a type of ‘cult’.
She said: ‘We were talking with an ex-Moonie and he was describing the psychological manipulation and I just clicked.’
Describing the couple as ‘kind of personal trainers,’ she added: ‘They worked with weights and put people on diets.
'Their thing was vegetarianism. They were very controlling.
‘I wasn’t living with them but I was there a lot and they were always telling me I needed to come more.
I had to pay for all the time I was there so it was financially very draining. They believe that people in their highest state were breatharian.’
Followers of breatharianism believe that food and water is unnecessary – as sunlight can provide all the nourishment that the body needs.
But the practice has been linked to several deaths, including that of Verity Linn, 49, who died in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands in 1999.
Her diary mentioned the teachings of Jasmuheen – a self-proclaimed prophet from Australia, also known as Ellen Greve, who thinks people can draw nourishment from the ‘divine life force in the form of liquid light’.
Miss Pfeiffer also denied having plastic surgery, but admitted that she had found ageing difficult.
She said: ‘The loss of youth, the loss of beauty – it plays havoc with your psyche. I used to think I would never have surgery but I’m in the “never say never” camp now.’"
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Post by artemis on Nov 5, 2013 16:03:40 GMT -5
"Charlie Trotter, famed Chicago chef, found dead in home
Charlie Trotter, whose eponymous Chicago restaurant was considered one of the finest in the world, has died.
The 54-year-old chef was found unconscious and not breathing in his Lincoln Park home this morning and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Trotter was found by his son Dylan at the home in the 1800 block of North Dayton Street and an ambulance was called at 10:45 a.m., according to a family friend and fire officials.
"My baby's gone," Trotter's wife Rochelle told the friend, Carrie Nahabedian.
Steve Kolinski, a neighbor who lives several houses down, said he came outside late this morning and saw six police cars and an ambulance pulled up at Trotter’s home. Kolinski then saw Trotter’s wife, who ran outside and was “yelling hysterically.’’
Trotter was wheeled out on a stretcher and taken away, he said. Trotter’s wife and son then left.
Trotter was pronounced dead at 11:48 a.m. at Northwestern. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday, but a source said there was no preliminary indications of foul play.
Trotter burst on the scene in 1987, when the self-taught chef opened Charlie Trotter’s restaurant on Armitage Avenue. In short order, the chef’s intense creativity and never-repeat-a-dish dictum made Trotter’s the most talked-about restaurant in Chicago, and his fame quickly spread throughout the country and beyond.
He was named the country’s Outstanding Chef by James Beard Foundation in 1999; in 2000, Wine Spectator magazine called Trotter’s the best restaurant in the nation. More awards and accolades followed, including a 2002 Beard Award for Outstanding Service; at the time, Trotter called it the award he was most proud to receive, as it represented “a team award.”
The mercurial chef was a stern taskmaster who demanded the absolute best from everyone who worked for him. He was also a man of uncommon generosity, creating the Charlie Trotter Education Foundation to provide scholarships for culinary students. He received the James Beard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year award in 2012.
“Charlie was an extreme father figure to me when it came to not just cooking, but life, and seeing things in a different way,” said chef Graham Elliot Bowles, one of many famous chefs who worked for Trotter. “I just can’t put into words how saddened I am by all of this. It’s a huge loss, not just personally, but for the culinary world.”
The news shocked many in the restaurant world, including L.A. chef David LeFevre, owner at MB Post and Fishing With Dynamite in Manhattan Beach, who worked for Trotter for 10 years, dating back to his externship from the Culinary Institute of America.
"He’s probably the most important guy in my career," LeFevre told the Los Angeles Times while waiting to board a flight from Chicago to Los Angeles after a brief vacation. “It’s funny because I’ve been talking a lot about Charlie this weekend because I was back in Chicago and seeing friends from that period.
"I think I can attribute the majority of my attention to detail and the majority of my awareness of what it takes to run a fine dining restaurant to him. He had a very acute sense of attention to detail and he saw things that most people didn’t see. All of us who worked for him are better chefs because we came out of that kitchen.
"He may not have been the best people person sometimes when he was trying to achieve a very difficult goal, but there’s no arguing that he made us all better chefs.
"I’ve spoken with 10 or 12 people this morning who worked with him and every one is very sad about this. Those of us who got to spend a lot of time with him knew a very caring side of him that not everyone could see."
Sari Zernich Worsham, who worked closely with Trotter for 13 years in his kitchen and on his books and PBS series, said she and other Trotter alumni are organizing a candlelight vigil in front of the restaurant buildings at 4:30 p.m. for anyone who would like to come.
“I just feel like we should do something immediately,” said Worsham, now executive director of chef Art Smith's company.
"Charlie always called me his little sister, and I feel like I just lost my big brother," she said. "I’m just speechless. He’s welded and sculpted so many people’s lives and sent them on the path to success. I can’t thank him enough."
“I don’t think you can write a sadder story," said Yusho chef Matthias Merges, a 14-year veteran of Trotter's kitchen as chef de cuisine, executive chef and director of operations. "I don’t think it’s even possible."
Merges emphasized that Trotter should be remembered for his incredible influence and success. "What he’s accomplished has been the game changer for the landscape of American cuisine, and we can never discount that no matter what happens,” Merges said.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a statement saying Trotter "changed Chicago’s restaurant scene forever and played a leading role in elevating the city to the culinary capital it is today. . . He will always have a seat at the table among Chicago’s legendary figures.”
A neighbor, Bunny Snyder, who lives across the street, remembered Trotter fondly, saying he was known as “Chef’’ to those in the close-knit neighborhood.
“He was terrific on the street,’’ Snyder said, adding that he would usually attend their summer block party and she would often see him walking a dog.
“He used to partake in our street fair every year and put out a table,’’ Snyder said. “He was a good neighbor."
Lauren Marks, who has lived on the street for some 30 years, said that she used to see Trotter fairly regularly when he would walk his dogs, but said he had been "rather reclusive lately."
"It's a sad thing, it's shocking," said Marks, who said she saw the emergency vehicles gathered outside this morning and knew something was wrong. "With Charlie you never knew what was going to happen on any given day... He was an interesting man."
Tom Aries, another neighbor whose child went to school with Trotter's son, called the news "astonishing."
"He was a phenomenal chef," said Aries, who said that he got to be chef for a day in Trotter's restaurant, and that he ran a very efficient operation.
Another woman who walked by Trotter's home said that she used to work for Trotter at his restaurant — where she had also met her husband.
"Charlie was a very sweet man to me all my years working there and treated me like a daughter," said the woman, wiping tears from her eyes. She declined to give her name because of the controversy that has surrounded Trotter's interactions with previous employees.
Trotter, who grew up in Chicago’s north suburbs, was a political science major at the University of Wisconsin at Madison before switching tracks and beginning his culinary training at Sinclair’s in Lake Forest.
Days before he turned 28, Trotter opened his own restaurant in a two-story North Side townhouse he spent about a year restoring.
"I worked in various kitchens from two days to five months," Trotter told the Tribune in 1987, just after the restaurant opened. "I would leave when I wasn't learning anything. I gradually began to conceive of the sort of place I would like to have and the style of cooking I felt comfortable with."
As a young chef learning his trade and bouncing from kitchen to kitchen, he earned the respect of his mentors.
"He's a marathon man," said Norman Van Aken, who in 1987 was a chef on Key West. "He's been with me in three different restaurants and in every one his spirit and persistence has lifted morale. I've never seen such drive, single-minded vision and generosity."
Trotter’s restaurant, greeted by positive reviews, continued growing in stature. In 1997, just a decade after opening, a Tribune critic called the restaurant “one of the city’s treasures” and said Trotter was “as experimental as they come” in the kitchen.
As his eatery flourished, Trotter became a regular at civic functions and charity dinners. At one point, his restaurant was purchasing produce from a garden tended by youth in the troubled Cabrini-Green housing projects.
But as diners rung in the New Year in 2012, Trotter announced that he’d be shuttering his restaurant months later. The restaurant closed late that summer, just after its 25th anniversary.
Trotter remained in the news after that final meal, but often not for the best reasons. The chef abruptly ended an auction of his restaurant’s wares when only about a third of the items had been sold.
Then this summer, he was sued for allegedly selling two wine collectors a bogus bottle for thousands of dollars, which he denied.
In August, almost a year to the day after the restaurant closed, Trotter kicked out high school students who had been invited to showcase their artwork from an after-school program in the former restaurant. One student said Trotter "went ballistic" when their instructor declined the chef’s request that they sweep floors and clean toilets."
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Post by artemis on Nov 7, 2013 10:08:36 GMT -5
"ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas Checks Into Alcohol Rehab
Taking control of the situation before hitting rock bottom, Elizabeth Vargas checked herself into an alcohol treatment facility a few weeks ago.
In a statement, the "20/20" co-anchor shared, "Like so many people, I am dealing with addiction. I realized I was becoming increasingly dependent on alcohol. I am in treatment and am so thankful for the love and support of my family, friends and colleagues at ABC News. Like so many others, I will deal with this challenge a day at a time. If coming forward today gives one other person the courage to seek help, I’m grateful.”
Supporting their valued employee, the network also released a statement, saying, "We are proud of the steps Elizabeth has taken and are pulling for her recovery. We look forward to having her back home at ABC News where she has done so much distinguished work over the years. Elizabeth is a member of our family and we will support her in every way we can.”
Reportedly, the 51-year-old journalist will spend another few weeks at the facility and her return date to ABC News has not yet been set."
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Post by artemis on Nov 12, 2013 6:56:43 GMT -5
"'There's no shame in having depression': Richard Dreyfuss talks candidly about his lifelong battle with bipolar disorder
He may be a successful actor with numerous hits and an Oscar under his belt, but Richard Dreyfuss spent many years on a roller-coaster ride of extreme highs and devastating lows as he battled bipolar disorder.
The Jaws star shared his experiences about his lifelong struggle with the condition at the Hope for Depression Research Foundation lunch in New York on Thursday.
'By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide,' he told People Magazine. 'There's no shame in having depression.'
The 66-year-old, who first revealed his condition in a 2006 documentary, said he had suffered from manic depression, terrible anxiety, epic highs and devastating lows since the age of 14.
Of his anxiety attacks, Richard said: 'I trembled in fear.
'It's like the night before the test and you aren't really sure about the subject and this balloon of self-loathing starts to swell up fast in anticipation of failure, I lived that feeling everyday, every minute for my entire life.'
The actor's career blossomed despite his condition. His performance in 1977's The Goodbye Girl won him the Academy Award for Best Actor and he admits that he was 'living from thrill to thrill' at the time.
But, as the years passed, there were more lows than highs. In 1995 he divorced writer-producer Jeramie Rain, the mother of his three children, Emily, now 30, Ben, 27 and Harry 23.
Despite his deep depression, he said he did not consider suicide 'because my daughter would've been really pissed.'
Richard began seeing a therapist and received treatment for his bipolar disorder. 'Counselling helped kill my guilt,' he said. 'We went on a journey to find the right meds and it took four long years.'
His life seems to be on an even keel now.
The celebrity, who married Russian-born Svetlana Erokhin in 2006, appeared in three films that came out this year, including the aptly named Paranoia, with Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, which was released in August."
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Post by artemis on Nov 12, 2013 7:18:08 GMT -5
Another lying scum walking in FANGelina's footsteps (or hoofsteps?) and whoring her alleged breast cancer out. The consequence will be the same: more women will be brainwashed and will mutilate themselves, exactly what NWO needs....
"ABC News’ Amy Robach Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis
I remember exactly where I was when I got the call from a “Good Morning America” producer. I was about to interview Marie Monville, the wife of the Amish school shooter, in the bucolic setting of Lancaster, Pa. She was speaking out about the senseless horror that happened in the most unlikely of places.
I was focused on what was about to be an emotional interview regarding life after tragedy, when our producer asked me if she could make a sensitive request: “Amy, next week we’d like you to do the first ever live television mammogram for ‘GMA’ Goes Pink day. You’re 40, the age women should start getting mammograms. Would you even consider it?”
It felt like a strange thing to consider given where I was and what I was about to do, but oddly now, it all feels connected.
For the past 20 years, sadly, a large part of my job deals in tragedy — other peoples’ tragedies — but never my own.
That day, when I was asked to do something I really didn’t want to do, something I had put off for more than a year, I had no way of knowing that I was in a life-or-death situation.
Sitting in that kitchen with Marie Monville, I had cancer and didn’t know it. In fact, I would have considered it virtually impossible that I would have cancer. I work out, I eat right, I take care of myself and I have very little family history; in fact, all of my grandparents are still alive.
So in the days to follow, if several producers and even Robin Roberts herself hadn’t convinced me that doing this on live television would save lives, I would never have been able to save my own.
So on Oct. 1, I had my first mammogram, in front of millions of people.
After breathing a big sigh of relief once it was done, my breath was taken away only a few weeks later.
I thought I was going back in for a few follow-up images, only to find out in a matter of hours that I had breast cancer.
I was alone that afternoon, never thinking to bring anyone with me, never thinking that day would be life-altering. My husband was on a business trip and my parents live across the country, but that night everyone flew into New York City and we started gearing up for a fight.
On Thursday, Nov. 14, I will go into surgery where my doctors will perform a bilateral mastectomy followed by reconstructive surgery. Only then will I know more about what that fight will fully entail, but I am mentally and physically as prepared as anyone can be in this situation.
And while everyone who gets cancer is clearly unlucky, I got lucky by catching it early, and there are so many people to thank for making sure I did. Every producer, every person who urged me to do this, changed my trajectory.
The doctors told me bluntly: “That mammogram just saved your life.”
I was also told this, for every person who has cancer, at least 15 lives are saved because people around them become vigilant. They go to their doctors, they get checked.
I can only hope my story will do the same and inspire every woman who hears it to get a mammogram, to take a self exam. No excuses. It is the difference between life and death."
abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/11/11/abc-news-amy-robach-reveals-breast-cancer-diagnosis/
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Post by artemis on Nov 16, 2013 19:25:55 GMT -5
"Cocaine fixes, vodka binges, eating disorders and depression... The searing pain of being the daughter of 'perfect' Olivia Newton-John
For more than four decades, Olivia Newton-John has pulled off the tough task of remaining the wholesome, squeaky-clean girl next door, despite a career spent in those twin dens of iniquity, Hollywood and the music industry.
But for her daughter Chloe Lattanzi – the only child of the English-born, Australian-raised star – the pressure of growing up as the offspring of such a ‘perfect’ celebrity proved an unbearable strain.
Chloe blames that anxiety for sending her life into a self-destructive spiral, beginning with anorexia and ending with cocaine, vodka and antidepressant abuse that sent her into a terrifying meltdown.
Now 27 and fresh out of rehab, Chloe today gives The Mail on Sunday a heartfelt and honest warning about the danger of celebrity culture.
With an authority born of bitter experience, she says: ‘Fame totally messes you up. I don’t blame my mother for my problems, but I would never want to be famous or raise a child of my own around the cult of celebrity. It ruins lives.
‘If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it is that you can’t be fragile in this business, or else you end up like Lindsay Lohan.
'That’s not meant as an insult: I know she – and a lot of celebrities and celebrities’ kids – are struggling with demons and addictions, just like me, and not all of them are brave enough to address them. It’s disturbing that everyone wants to be famous these days. Our culture is sick.’
Does she blame her mother – who has expressed regret for not acknowledging Chloe’s eating disorder earlier – for not recognising her early cry for help? After all, friends have described Olivia as existing in a state of denial about her daughter.
Chloe pauses and draws nervously on her cigarette before saying: ‘I don’t want to say anything to hurt my mother. I think it was very difficult for her. She’d never faced anything like that before and she didn’t know how to deal with it.
‘Eventually she faced up to it and sent me to a treatment centre for my eating disorder when I was 18.
‘It didn’t help at all. Putting people with eating disorders together is the worst thing you can do. It creates competition. I left and slowly got better on my own. But then I replaced one addiction with another.’
n person, Chloe looks remarkably like her still-youthful mother with flowing blonde hair and a figure which is now healthy and toned. At the height of her eating disorder she weighed just 6st 5lbs.
As an only child, Chloe was doted upon as she grew up in a Malibu mansion with neighbours including Mel Gibson, Cher and Pierce Brosnan – and enjoyed playing with their children.
Chloe was a bright, musically-gifted youngster who always seemed destined to follow her mother into showbusiness.
She began performing with Olivia – who divorced Chloe’s father, Matt Lattanzi, when she was eight – and, by 15, had earned a record deal of her own with an offshoot of Warner Brothers. But she had dropped out of school to pursue her music career and the showbusiness lifestyle started to catch up with her.
‘I was travelling so much and working all the time,’ she says. ‘Music was what I wanted to do but I didn’t realise at the time that the pressures of being in the public eye were destroying me.’
Growing up in the shadow of such beauty and acclaim wasn’t easy – even if her mother’s achievements were also a source of pride.
‘I watched Grease for the first time when I was eight and I just remember saying, “Wow, that’s my mum!”,’ Chloe says.
‘She was so pretty and I was just in awe of how great she was in that movie. It became obvious to me why everyone loved her so much – as she was so lovely and perfect for the role of the heroine, Sandy.
‘I knew all the lyrics to the songs from Grease and I would sing along to them all the time.
‘I even memorised some of the lines from Sandy’s scenes, which always gave my mum a good laugh.’
But she also recalls having been ‘terrified’ when, aged six, she had attended one of her mother’s concerts and witnessed the adoration of out-of-control fans for the first time.
‘Later, I would become sickened by the phoniness all around,’ she says. ‘I was aware my mother was different and resented people who tried to take advantage of her.
‘Then, when I got my record deal, I felt overwhelmed at being observed all the time.
‘That, combined with a predisposition for depression and anxiety, was a recipe for disaster.
‘Looking back, I think now that I subconsciously sabotaged my record deal because I couldn’t cope with the price of fame.
People who didn’t know me had opinions about me and that upset me. I was fragile emotionally.
‘My eating disorder started when I was 15 and carried on until my early 20s. I had anxiety attacks and needed to find a way of feeling in control of something. Food was the one thing I could be in control of.’
At 22, Chloe moved into a flat in Los Angeles with friends: ‘I never developed any tools for coping with my emotions. The only way I knew how to deal with emotional stress was through self-harm. That’s why I started doing drugs and drinking.
‘The first time I tried cocaine I felt such relief. It took my anxiety away.
‘I got to the stage where the first thing I did each morning was to do cocaine. I was drinking and partying and going crazy.’
Chloe was soon spending £80 a day on cocaine and downing a bottle of vodka daily to ‘self-medicate’.
She says neither her mother, by this time living in Florida, or her father, a dancer, had any idea of the extent of her problems.
hloe is anxious not to blame her mother – who is now 65 and has faced her own problems, including a successful battle against breast cancer and losing her sister Rona to brain cancer earlier this year – for her descent into drugs and alcohol.
Olivia also had to cope with a former boyfriend disappearing without trace and a friend killing himself at her Florida home.
Things got even worse for Chloe when she started adding Xanax, a prescription sedative, to her addictions. ‘I was so out of it during that time that I don’t even remember waking up most mornings,’ she says.
‘I had blackouts. I would stay up on three-day-long binges without ever going to sleep. Days and weeks started to blend together.’
And then she hit rock bottom in September last year. ‘I was at a hotel in Santa Monica with my mum and some friends and, out of nowhere, I had a complete meltdown. I’d been mixing alcohol and Xanax and was in a semi-psychotic state.
‘I was crying hysterically, freaking out and acting crazy.
‘I have no doubt my mum and dad could sense something was going on but they had no idea of the extent of my addictions.
'Later, being drunk and high became so routine that I would be high in front of my mum – and I don’t think she even noticed because it was such a normal state for me to be in.
‘I would be out partying every night at different Hollywood clubs, running into other young celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, and just partying the night away.
'After a year of bottled-up pain, I just released my demons and one day told my mum everything I was going through. For hours I just cried in Mum’s arms and told her over and over, “I can’t take this any more. I can’t stand living in this pain.” I told her how out of control my drug and alcohol addictions had become.
‘She stayed up with me all night reassuring me and saying, “Don’t worry, baby, we’re gonna get through this together. I believe in you, Chloe. You’re a strong, beautiful person and you are going to get through this,” and she was right.
'Despite how painful the circumstances were, I felt so lucky to have someone like my mum with me to lean on and cry with.
‘The next morning, she put me in the car and drove me to rehab. On the ride over I was shaking and sobbing, but Mum held my hand, put on a brave face and assured me everything was going to be all right. She said that she was proud of me and at that time that’s really all I needed to hear.
‘I felt incredibly scared and nervous about making the commitment to go through rehab. But finally I got the right treatment. I was there for seven months. I still battle with anxiety but I’m on medication and it’s so much better.
‘Now I can function. The reason I am talking about this is that depression is so isolating. You feel so alone. If I can help just one person by telling my story, it’s a good thing.
‘I feel empathy for other girls like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie – who have had to publicly battle their addictions with drugs and alcohol in the spotlight. But, thankfully, like them, I’m finally addressing my issues and getting help.’
Chloe is doing well in her recovery, but still has a long way to go. Yet, for now, she’s happy. She’s engaged to martial arts instructor James Driskill and says of her mother: ‘My relationship with Mum is in a great place. She’s fantastic.’"
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Post by artemis on Nov 19, 2013 7:34:30 GMT -5
IMO this is a truckful of bollocks meant to hide the much creepier truth.... "Revealed: Brittany Murphy 'was poisoned by government spooks in revenge for star's support of whistleblower', claims her grief-striken father
Brittany Murphy's father has sensationally claimed that the tragic ‘Clueless’ actress was poisoned to death by after offering her celebrity backing to a whistleblower fighting the government. Angelo Bertolotti, 87, alleges that at the time of her death his daughter was under surveillance from shadowy government operators who wiretapped her phone and terrorized her after she spoke out in support of a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower. Julia Davis, who claims to have once worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie, says Brittany was being persecuted for standing up for her. Davis claimed she was branded a ‘domestic terrorist’ after she exposed security flaws that were allowing terrorists to sneak into the U.S. while she was working as a border security guard in California. The extraordinary claims are what drove Brittany’s father to campaign to have a separate toxicology test conducted on the star. The new report found rat poison may have caused the shock death - in stark contrast to the official coroner's report that concluded it was natural causes. The latest twist to the growing mystery over the actress’s death came as relatives called on police in Los Angeles to re-open the investigation. ‘I called it two weeks after it happened,’ one family member told MailOnline. ‘You just don’t have two people die like that under those circumstances.’ Officials insist there is no evidence to support a more sinister motive behind 32-year-old Brittany’s sudden death in the bathroom of her Los Angeles home on December 20, 2009. Her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, 40, died in similar circumstances five months later. The Los Angeles coroner ruled the deaths were due to pneumonia and anemia. Health officials later reportedly suggested toxic mold in the house could have played a role in the tragedy. But the actress’s father is steadfast in his belief foul play was behind the mysterious deaths and launched a lawsuit last year demanding the release of hair samples from Brittany’s body to carry out the new tests. Although the legal action – which named arsenic as a possible cause of death – was dismissed, the father was given hair, blood and tissue samples to carry out the independent laboratory tests. In a report for Examiner.com, Ms Davis wrote that scientists at independent Carlson Company laboratories found ten heavy metals in Brittany's system which were several times higher than World Health Organization high levels at the time of her death. 'If we were to eliminate the possibility of a simultaneous accidental heavy metals exposure to the sample donor then the only logical explanation would be an exposure to these metals (toxins) administered by a third party perpetrator with likely criminal intent,' the report says. Heavy metals are found in most rodenticides and insecticides meaning the actress could have been slipped rat poisoning or bug killer. At the time of her death, Brittany displayed all the symptoms of heavy metal poisoning including: headaches, dizziness, abdominal cramps, coughing, sweating, disorientation, wheezing, congestion and pneumonia. Mr Monjack also exhibited similar symptoms before his death, leading some to believe he too was poisoned. His mother-in-law Sharon discovered his body after moving in with him following her daughter's death. In a recent interview with Los Angeles-based Fleur De Lis Film Studios, Mr Bertolotti said: ‘They were, in fact, under surveillance, including helicopters. Their telephones were wiretapped, Brittany was afraid to go home, because of the sneak-and-peek incursions into their residence and other terror tactics she suffered after speaking out in support of Julia Davis and being named as a witness in her lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security.’ At the time of her death, early speculation was that the actress died of a drug overdose or anorexia after years of shocking weight loss. Prescription pills were found in the actress' system, but they were treating a cold and respiratory infection. Mr Bertolotti and Ms Davis are writing a book, ‘Britt’ detailing what they really believe happened to the star and a documentary, ‘The Terror Within’, which has not yet been released. Ms Davis claimed that while working at the US border with Mexico she uncovered evidence that dozens of potential terrorists had entered America in shady circumstances that may have involved the bribery of customs officials. On a whistleblower website, Ms Davis wrote that family members and witnesses who dared to support her were ‘subjected to land and aerial surveillance, to the tune of millions – at the expense of American taxpayers. ‘This included warrantless aerial surveillance with fixed-wing airplanes and Blackhawk helicopters, vehicular surveillance, OnStar tracking, Internet monitoring, wiretaps, warrantless searches and seizures and series of other outrageous, unwarranted retaliatory measures.’ On the National Whistleblower Center website, Julia Davis said she 'prevailed' in court against the Department of Homeland Security despite a total of 54 'retaliatory' investigations being launched against her in an 'attempt to discredit Julia as an upstanding law enforcement officer and a staunch American patriot.' On the site, she says that when her fears about terrorists being able to slip into the U.S. were ignored by her bosses she went to the FBI, infuriating her bosses. Last year, a trailer for the documentary about the whistleblower case, called 'Top Priority: The Terror Within,' was posted on YouTube. It features photos of Angelo Bertolotti with his daughter and visiting her grave. He also says that Brittany 'was called as a witness in the Julia Davis case.' He added: 'Brittany did tell me she was under surveillance and incidentally so was I.' The video claimed Miss Murphy and her husband were subjected to the same 'terror tactics' as Ms Davis. The video also featured footage of a Blackhawk helicopter raid on Ms Davis's Yucca Valley, California, house. Ms Davis says in her blog that a judge sided with her to rule the 2005 raid on her home was an 'abuse of process.' Miss Murphy was perhaps most famous for her role in 1995's Clueless, but she also had more serious roles in Girl, Interrupted and played Eminem's love interest in 8 Mile - the movie about the rapper's life. At the time of her death, Miss Murphy's career had tapered off and her last major role was in 2004's Little Black Book. Before marrying Mr Monjack, the actress dated Ashton Kutcher, her co-star in the film Just Married. After breaking up with the actor, she went on to have two serious relationships that led to engagements with talent manager Jeff Kwantinetz and production assistant Joe Macaluso before marrying Mr Monjack, a screenwriter, in May 2007." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509626/Brittany-Murphys-father-believes-husband-poisoned-death-government-spooks.html
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Post by artemis on Nov 19, 2013 16:53:17 GMT -5
"‘I ran to him, blood spurting from my vein, crying “will this make you love me?”': Anjelica Huston relives the moment she tried to kill herself in midst of stormy love affair with celebrity photographer
Anjelica Huston has lifted the lid on a series of stormy relationships with older men including the moment she slit her wrist with a razor in rage and desperation during the stormy love affair she had with celebrity photographer Bob Richardson. Huston was just 18 and Richardson was 42 when they first met in 1969 at a photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar as publicity for 'A Walk with Love and Death', the film she was in directed by her father. Writing in her new memoir out today, A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York, the first of her two-part autobiography, she says there was an instant attraction. The first time they had sex they were stoned and stood in front of a mirror together so it was like an 'out-of-body experience', she writes. Huston became his muse and inspiration but his mental health problems played havoc with their lives; he was bi-polar and suffering from schizophrenia and spent days in vile moods. 'A Story Lately Told' details how Richardson once threw a bottle of tequila at her head, tossed all her belongings around their hotel room and berated her for not being a 'real woman' because she wasn't pregnant. Huston effectively became his lover and carer at the same time. Huston writes: ‘I never felt so fragile or vulnerable as when Bob became demonic and flew into a rage, or worse, when afterward he retreated into his shell. 'One morning, four days into one of these ordeals, I walked into the bathroom at the Chelsea [Hotel] and, in desperation, drew a razor blade across my left wrist. I ran back into the bedroom, blood spurting from the vein, crying to him: ‘Will this make you love me?’ Huston writes that Richardson took her to the emergency room where doctors stitched her wounds and asked her many questions about how she had come to have such an injury. 'Later when I told Bob I could not live like this any more, he decided we should go on vacation. We were under too much stress, he said, we needed some sun’. They ended up going on an incident-filled trip to Mexico where they were nearly shot dead by police. Soon after Huston had had enough of Richardson, whose son Terry is now a famous fashion photographer in his own right - infamous for his risque pictures of stars including Madonna and Miley Cyrus. But it wasn't the first relationship Huston had had with older men. Huston reveals how her heart was broken for the first time as a schoolgirl of 17 by the dashing British actor James Fox, 11 years her senior, who seduced her for sex sessions during lesson time. The Hollywood icon fell for James Fox and skipped afternoon school to be in his arms even though he was 28 and seeing somebody else, she writes. She was wowed by his celebrity friends who were the elite of swinging 1960s London but it ended when she realized he was in love with his girlfriend and just using her. Huston’s affair with Fox would mark the beginning of a string of relationships with A-list Hollywood men including Jack Nicholson whom she dated on and off for 17 years until 1989, even though he repeatedly cheated on her. She was considered by many to be the face of the 1970s after modeling for Vogue in Britain and France, being shot by Helmut Newton and partying with celebrities like Mick Jagger. Both Huston's parents strayed when she was young and Huston seems to have learned her loose attitude towards relationships from watching them. Her list of conquests is on a par with the hits of her acting career, which includes the Addams Family and mafia satire Prizzi's Honour for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Iconic photographer David Bailey fell under her spell for a time and flirted with the idea of proposing, she slept with Parisian aristocrat Baron Arnaud de Rosnay and briefly dated Ryan O'Neal before he met his longtime love Farrah Fawcett. 'A Story Lately Told' tells how Huston's first encounter with a celebrity admirer happened when she was just 16. The man in question was invited by her father, the director John Huston, to the family estate, St Clerans in County Galway, Ireland, where she spent much of her youth. At the time Huston was just 16 and only beginning to realise the 'power' she had over men. The admirer was one Marlon Brando – and he was 53. Huston writes: 'I went up to the Big House one morning and found a tanned, even-featured man in a maroon velour sweatshirt standing on the upstairs landing, talking to Dad, who introduced me to him. 'Marlon smiled and his lips curled. He spoke through his nose. 'That afternoon in the study, Marlon gave me a tortoise shell ring from Tahiti, inlaid with silver and asked me if I'd like to visit him there someday'. It would be one more year and a move to London before she met Fox, the star of the druggy cult drama 'Performance' alongside Jagger, and by then Huston had lost her virginity in a one-night-stand. At the time Fox was 28 and was seeing an American called Andee Cohen who Huston describes as 'like a Gernreich model, with a Vidal Sassoon haircut - pretty and stick thin'. Nevertheless, after coming to dinner with Huston's mother, the ballerina Enrica Soma, he asked her out and sucked her into his world. Fox took her to his apartment in the wealthy Mayfair neighbourhood and had a lamb stew dinner with the director Donald Cammell and his girlfriend. Huston, who was studying for her A-Levels at the time, though they were the coolest people she'd ever met. For their first proper date, the book says: ‘He [Fox] had a new purple Lotus Elan, the colour of the red cabbage leaf he’d given as a sample for the custom paint job. 'As we drove out into the country, he put a tape in the machine and for the first time in my life I heard Otis Redding.’ They had lunch and then he took her back to his apartment in London where they made love. Huston writes: ‘Thus began a short series of after-school visits, none lasting longer than a few hours.' Fox, who she called 'Willy', insisted she was his girlfriend but Huston knew better. After seeing Fox and Cohen together looking 'very much in love', Huston 'never confronted him' about it, even when she saw them once slip off to a bedroom together. Their affair ended but she writes that ‘Willy Fox had broken my heart’. Huston would eventually marry sculptor Robert Graham and stayed with him until his death in 2008." www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2509740/Anjelica-Hustons-new-memoir-chronicles-childhood-affairs-older-men-suicide-bid.html
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Post by lucy on Nov 20, 2013 10:46:10 GMT -5
It sounds like a meltdown of the celebs on a massive level...at once.... I think that these people have been programmed to be able to "act" and do such different characters...at different times, it always seems that these people have some sort of mental problem, or perhaps a physical ailment as a result of their strange mind control.
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Post by artemis on Nov 23, 2013 19:39:03 GMT -5
"'I'm proud of what I did': Hollywood producer reveals his double life as an arms dealer and Israeli spy - and says the late Sydney Pollack participated tooA major Hollywood producer is planning to spill the beans about his double life as an arms dealer and Israeli intelligence operative in the late 1970s. Arnon Milchan, the Israeli producer of smash hits including Fight Club and Pretty Woman, is opening up for the first time ever in an Israeli TV show on Monday to speak about his involvement in clandestine deals to acquire arms for Israel and his work to promote the country's alleged nuclear program. Russell Crowe, Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck and other major Hollywood players are also featured in the controversial report to be aired on Israel’s Channel 2. The film tycoon spoke to Israeli investigative journalist Ilana Dayan for the season premiere of her current affairs show, Uvda. In the interview he tells her how he tried to engage Hollywood colleagues in his work for Israel's Defense Ministry, according to Haaretz. He claims he managed to convince other Hollywood bigwigs, including the late director Sydney Pollack, to get involved. Pollack, who died in 2008, acquired arms and other military equipment for Israel in the 1970s, reveals Milchan in the TV report. Pollack knew of the details of the deals, says Milchan, who adds that he ‘didn't want to scare him because he's American… He could have said "no". He said "no" many times, but he also said "yes" many times’. Milchan also says he used at least one big-name actor's star quality to lure US scientist Arthur Biehl – an expert on nuclear weapons and a co-developer of the hydrogen bomb – to a meeting. Milchan invited Biehl to the actor's home under the pretence the actor was seeking scientific advice for a project he was working on. Milchan expected Biehl to cooperate because, ‘Anyone who lives in California is a star-f*****… They hear "star"…they come running,’ he said. But he says life wasn’t always so easy, according to Haaretz. ‘In Hollywood they don’t like working with an arms dealer, ideologically, with someone who lives off selling machine guns and killing. ‘Instead of someone talking to me about a script, I had to spend half an hour explaining that I'm not an arms dealer,’ says Milchan. De Niro was asked if he knew what was going on at the time, and he said he did. 'I did ask him once, we spoke about something, he told me that he was an Israeli and that he of course would do these things for his country. 'I remember at some point, I had asked Arnon about that, being friends I was curious, but not in an accusatory way, I just wanted to know. 'He gave me that answer and I accepted it,' said De Niro. ‘If people knew how many times I risked my life, back and forth, again and again, for my country. And suddenly, defend myself – "I'm not an arms dealer, I don't sell guns, I don't sell rockets". I should have been aware of that, of what I'll go through, and said, "F*** you". You know what, I did it for my country and I'm proud of it.’
This isn’t the first time Milchan's role in Israeli arms dealings and intelligence has surfaced.
Two years ago, a book titled Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan, was published by authors Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman.
The book alleged that Milchan was an operative for Israel's Bureau of Scientific Relations, which gathered information for Israel's alleged nuclear program.
The bureau was closed after Jonathan Pollard was arrested for spying on behalf of Israel in 1986.
Milchan is still making movies, and his company, New Regency films, is working on four films slated for release in 2013-14.
One of those is Noah, a Darren Aronofsky-directed take on the Biblical flood story starring Russell Crowe, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins."
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511965/Arnon-Milchan-reveals-details-double-life-arms-dealer-Israeli-spy.html
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Post by artemis on Nov 24, 2013 7:50:36 GMT -5
"The Disneys: Not the happiest family on EarthOn Labor Day 2009, a young woman named Michelle Lund was rushed to an Orange County, Calif. hospital with a brain aneurysm following a night of partying with friends. Within days, as she teetered on the brink of death, the lines had been drawn in a vicious battle over $400 million that has torn one of the nation’s most famous families apart. Michelle and her twin brother, Brad Lund, are the grandchildren of late entertainment titan Walt Disney. In the 1950s and 1960s, their father Bill, a real estate developer, helped Walt scout the swampy acreage in Central Florida that would become Disney World. Bill married Walt’s daughter, Sharon, in 1968, and the twins were born in 1970. Before she died in 1993, Sharon set up trust funds for Brad and Michelle that are now worth about $400 million. According to the terms of the trust, the siblings were each to receive annual payments, plus lump sums at five-year intervals. But now the twins have squared off -- Brad with father Bill in his corner, Michelle in hers with the estate’s trustees. They are set to meet in a California courtroom for a civil trial that begins Dec. 5. The legal battle began immediately after Michelle’s aneurysm, while she was comatose. Bill tried to move her to a hospital in Arizona, where he lives, and the trustees filed suit. When she recovered, Michelle took the trustees’ side. Ever since, they’ve been paying out Michelle’s regular multimillion-dollar disbursements according to the terms mandated by Sharon, but withholding Brad’s payments. In next month’s trial, Bill and Brad will try to end the trustees’ control of Brad’s money. Michelle’s side says Brad is incapable of managing the chunk of the Disney fortune due him because he has “chronic cognitive disability.” The trustees also allege that Bill Lund has “taken advantage” of his son’s “disability” to gain millions in the past, in the form of “secret profits” using trust fund money. Bill denies wrongdoing, charging it’s the trustees who’ve looted the trust fund of millions. They've been manipulating Michelle by releasing funds to her while denying payments to Brad, he says. During the long journey to the looming showdown in Los Angeles, lawyers have been censured and courtrom scuffles have erupted. The warring parties have traded allegations that Michelle suffered from “permanent brain damage” and that Brad is mentally “incompetent” or has Down Syndrome -- even though neither sibling has been diagnosed with any of those conditions. There have been charges and countercharges of lying, thieving, forgery, and other forms of abuse and deceit. The two twins, once as close as twins can be, haven’t spoken since Michelle’s aneurysm. In a statement to NBC News, the trustees said they’ve refused to pay Brad the millions due him because they have “…full discretion to withhold distributions if (the beneficiary) doesn’t demonstrate the maturity and financial ability to manage the funds wisely.” Brad, who according to his father Bill has had “some learning issues” but has never been judged incompetent, said he’s angry. “Wouldn’t you be?” he told NBC News. “She’s being controlled by someone who’s got the remote control … like she’s a robot. We’ve been at this for four years.” It’s taken four years because, predictably for a case with so many millions at stake, there are a lot of voices vying to be heard and a lot of law firm billing hours generating reams of briefs and challenges. And all this for a case where, on the surface, it’s really hard to see a clear victim. Everyone involved has plenty of money. Brad and Michelle live lives of leisure on smaller trust funds that aren’t part of the lawsuit. Father Bill, who had been a trustee himself before he resigned under pressure from the current trustees (they say it was for misconduct, he says it was for health reasons), is wealthy in his own right. When he resigned as a trustee, he agreed to a settlement that pays him $500,000 a year. The trustees Bill’s battling, meanwhile, earn at least that annually, plus additional fees as they arise. “It’s their career,” Bill said bitterly. “This is tragic. If Walt were here he’d be appalled. He’d be absolutely appalled and so would Sharon at the way the trustees have acted.” The trustees counter that Walt and Sharon would be appalled at the way Bill has “taken advantage” of Brad to get at Brad’s money. Walt Disney created a theme park that was marketed as “the happiest place on Earth.” But the reality two of his grandchildren inhabit today is something else entirely." investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/23/21580650-the-disneys-not-the-happiest-family-on-earth?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=7
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Post by artemis on Nov 25, 2013 6:07:09 GMT -5
"Liberace discarded me like a 'piece of trash' after introducing me to drugs, says jailed ex-loverJilted lover Scott Thorson has revealed shocking details of his relationship with Liberace -- and is now back in jail 'for an alleged probation violation and failing to appear in court', TMZ reports. Prior to his arrest on Wednesday, Thorson described in an interview for 'Oprah: Where Are they Now?,' the lavish lifestyle he enjoyed as Liberace's lover. 'Although we had our differences, we had more good times than bad times. Well, I mean it was a wonderful life. I was 16 years old, I was walking around with all these jewels -- you know, a million dollars worth of jewelry, 30 cars. I had more mink coats and diamonds than Elizabeth Taylor had,' he said. In the video, Thorson also described how he received plastic surgery to resemble a young Liberace at his lover's request. 'It was amazing, the resemblance afterwards -- the same chin, it was just amazing,' he said. Thorson also alleged in the interview that Liberace introduced him to using drugs. 'When it got out of control, he just decided that he was going to discard me like a piece of trash. Cut off my credit cards, cut off all the cash,' he told the special. Thorson later sued Liberace for palimony, the video adds, and is believed to have received $95,000 in a settlement. 'The reason why I sued Liberace was because he threw me on the streets and I had nothing. He called me a disgruntled employee. That I was a street hustler, that I was liar. That there was never a sexual relationship. That I was nothing but a gold digger. And I was just a young kid.' Thorson was booked on Wednesday, TMZ reports. He had been on probation for a burglary and ID conviction from earlier this year. He also faced a drug violation in September but received a rehab sentence, the website adds. Thorson, the Associated Press reports, was forced to reside in Washoe County as a result of a determination by probation officials. His lawyer, David Houston, told the Associated Press in September 'He was living in what I would refer to as a drug-infested area. If you put enough stress on an individual and make things seem helpless you do get a certain result - in this case a relapse.' Prior to his September arrest, Thorson had spent time at the famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch Brothel, under the supervision of owner Dennis Hof. 'Scott is the dysfunctional son that I never wanted but I am willing to still help him out. He has an addiction problem and needs constant supervision to beat his problem,' Hof told The National Enquirer. 'I partially blame the courts for his ongoing problem -- they refused to allow him to stay with me at the Bunny Ranch which is a clean, drug-free sober environment.' Hof also told The National Enquirer that 'as soon as they put him back out [in] Reno he was surrounded by temptations that will always get the best of him.'" www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513034/Scott-Thorson-Liberace-discarded-like-piece-trash.html
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