There have been a slew of celebrities who have drawn a lot of unwelcome attention upon themselves because of their very public meltdowns. And it's surprising the excuses that some of them are coming up with, and the support those excuses are getting from the Hollywood media.
Paris Hilton was totally humiliated with her recent jail odyssey. She cried her way out of serving the rest of her sentence in jail; she cried and shrieked her way right back in the very next day.
Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears have had major problems with alcohol. See their very unflattering photos (yuck) elsewhere.
David Hasselhoff (of Knight Rider and Baywatch fame) was humiliated when someone released a tape of him interacting with his daughter in a drunken stupor.
Mel Gibson had a spectacular run-in with the police, who pulled him over for erratic driving. He ran for it, got collared within seconds, then launched into an anti-Jewish rant, among other things.
There are dozens of others.
Alcoholism turns people into shadows of what they were before. And the Hollywood media is all too willing to place blame on someone or something else, but not directly on the celebrity who is struggling with alcohol or drug abuse. The exception seems to be Britney Spears; they ran out of excuses for her.
I object to people placing all the blame for their problem on someone or something else. It's that person's weakness that caused them to turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism. One of the major steps to recovery is taking responsibility for one's own life, as well as for what's happened. That means that scapegoats are OUT.
It's sad to see all of these people go through stuff like this, then delay their recovery by releasing statements to the media blaming something else for their problem. I hope they all recover and get well soon.
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