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Unfortunately for fans of the show, at the time of this writing, six Celebrity Rehab alums have tragically passed away , including The Real World: Hollywood star, Joey Kovar, and Grease actor, Jeff Conaway. Drew Pinsky is an addiction and recovery expert who rose to fame as one of the hosts of the syndicated radio talk show Loveline. Pinksy first appeared on Loveline in the 80s, as a fourth-year medical student. The show — which answered questions from callers about love, sex, and drugs — first aired locally in Los Angeles, only to grow into a pop-culture monster resulting in tours, a book, and even a television show.
While Pinksy left the radio show in , his early media presence might explain his instincts for what makes good infotainment or exploitainment. Drew aired for five seasons, with a sixth season featuring everyday people.
Pinsky also worked with high-profile addicts in two Celebrity Rehab spin-offs. Sober House chronicled the post-rehab lives of prior Celebrity Rehab patients as they attempted to juggle freedom and sobriety. The other spin-off, Sex Rehab with Dr. Pinsky has also been in the news for being the eagle on The Masked Singer in and for making controversial comments in minimizing the severity of COVID before stay-at-home orders were issued for most of the country. Sadly, she soon went astray.
According to an E! Peniche was stripped of her title and sought refuge in the guest house at the Playboy mansion. An opportunity for redemption on Celebrity Rehab and Sex Rehab and Sober House backfired and only added to her bad-girl reputation thanks to erratic behavior.
According to NBC , Gawker published a tape of nude shenanigans between Peniche, Eric Dane, and his wife, Rebecca Gayheart, in a potential reason for the couple splitting years later in While Peniche was still using meth in , she has since gotten sober, kept her family intact, and started a design business, DAF House.
As the actor told Daily Mail , the turning point came right before filming Natural Born Killers, where his addiction took hold within two weeks of trying cocaine for the first time.
Casting Sizemore on season three of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew was controversial because of his history of domestic violence, particularly against former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, which resulted in serving a six-month jail sentence, per CNN. Sizemore was accused of molesting an year-old girl on a movie set in , which was not revealed until Fleiss entered season three of Celebrity Rehab addicted to methamphetamine and prescription medications.
The sketchy decision from Dr. Fleiss continues to struggle with addiction to crystal meth. In a interview for The Naughty Nineties , a book by David Friend, she revealed her battle with methamphetamine had only recently ended. Dealing with a relapse seems easier than continuing to deal with the pain. Fleiss has no regrets about her call-girl heyday other than the loose lips that sunk her ship.
She now lives in Pahrump, Nevada, and spends most of her time rescuing and caring for scores of exotic birds, mainly macaws, a pastime that began when an elderly neighbor asked Fleiss to take care of her birds when she died. Drew alumnus to die. His addictions to heroin, cocaine, meth, and methadone were chronicled on season three of Celebrity Rehab and, later, on season two of Sober House. Starr died of a prescription drug overdose in March Starr says the overdose death of his bandmate and dear friend, Layne Staley, was a turning point in his life.
A year later, Starr was dead. Troubled country singer Mindy McCready struggled with addiction to alcohol and prescription painkillers and battled a personality disorder. She sadly died by suicide in The circumstances of her death are especially heartbreaking because her boyfriend and father of her month-old son, Zayne, David Wilson, had recently died in the same place, in the same manner.
McCready was overwhelmed by this loss, which likely exacerbated her mental health struggle.
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