Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Kate Moss, Robbie Williams, Lindsay Lohan, Jade Goody, Britney Spears and Caprice – to name but a few. Rehab seems to be the IT place to be these days.
If you’re famous and caught on camera for being tipsy coming out of a club at two in the morning, you obviously ill and have a problem and have to check into somewhere to make you better.
To be honest, it’s an insult to those with genuine substance abuse problems. It’s used as a cop out and to garner the sympathy vote anytime they get some bad Press. Quite apart from the fact that they’re using up valuable time and expertise that could be going to the much more deserving, it’s also an insult to the intelligence of the average human being. Do PR people truly believe that we can’t see through want is tantamount to damage limitation?
When someone like Keith Urban - who has a true problem with alcoholism – goes into rehab, it’s a thing to be admired but when someone like Lindsay Lohan books herself in on a part-time basis because she’s earned herself a reputation of partying too hard to show up to work on time, it’s laughable. Especially when she is regularly caught nightclubbing and late night partying while supposedly in rehab!
I say get over yourselves! If you can’t take the stress of being rich and beautiful, stay home and mope about it but don’t detract from the seriousness of real substance abuse just to look good in the Press.
