Isn’t LeAnn Rimes supposed to be on lockdown in some mental health facility right now? Why is she giving yet another interview to People Magazine? Don’t answer that. I already know why. So, as I’m sure you’ve heard/discussed/obsessed over, LeAnn is seeking treatment for her mental health issues, which so far as anyone can determine basically boils down to “LeAnn is addicted to Twitter” and “LeAnn has issues with the First Amendment.” But LeAnn tells People Mag that it goes deeper than that. LeAnn thinks that her mental health issues are because she’s so selfless and she doesn’t spend enough time taking care of herself. OMG.

After just a week in treatment for anxiety and stress, LeAnn Rimes is making strides in tackling her emotional issues.

“She’s already feeling better, stronger,” a friend of the country star tells PEOPLE in its new issue.

Rimes voluntarily entered an undisclosed facility the day after her 30th birthday “to learn and develop coping mechanisms,” her rep confirmed last week.

“I’m happy and healthy. I just want to be happier and healthier more consistently,” Rimes told PEOPLE before she checked into treatment. “I don’t want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.”

Rimes – who is married to actor Eddie Cibrian and has been gearing up for the release of her latest studio album Spitfire – is expected to temporarily leave treatment for a trio of long-planned Midwest concert dates this weekend before returning to the 30-day program.

Since she launched her career as a child, “I’ve been built up and torn down, built up and torn down,” she tells PEOPLE. “It’s been difficult to tune people out, especially in the last few years.”

“Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60,” she said. “I’ve always taken care of anyone else, and I think I’ve buried some issues for a long time.”

She says that “Now, I’m starting to care more about me and not what anyone else thinks.”

[From Radar and People Mag]

Of course. I choose to take this at face value… meaning that I think LeAnn thinks these are honestly her biggest problems in life: that she doesn’t get enough ME TIME and that she can’t “tune people out.” Meanwhile, The Enquirer has an extensive and exclusive story this week about the “real” reason LeAnn is in a mental health facility. Hint: it’s not because she doesn’t get enough “Me Time”?

LEANN RIMES checked into a “treatment facility” after a cheating secret threatened to destroy her marriage! The 30-year-old country singer sought treatment for stress and anxiety when she learned that her husband Eddie Cibrian was still in touch with a former lover, sources say.

Cibrian cheated on his first wife, “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Brandi Glanville, with bit-part actress Scheana Marie – and the two women had an ugly confrontation on the Bravo series. While the 39-year-old actor has cooled things with Scheana, 27, the former “CSI: Miami” star never lost contact with her, sources say.

“Their affair is definitely over, but Eddie still has feelings for Scheana, and she’s tight with his good friends,” revealed an insider. “Eddie is very careful when he communicates with her. He uses a member of their inner circle as an intermediary, or texts and calls from friends’ phones. But someone told LeAnn, and she freaked out.”

Another close source told The ENQUIRER: “I think LeAnn feels very threatened by this girl. She went so far as to block Scheana on Twitter.”

The Grammy winner fell for Cibrian when they were both still married, and pals believe she’s suspected him of cheating for awhile.

“LeAnn called a friend a few weeks ago sobbing hysterically about Eddie going out,” divulged the insider. “She was home for the weekend and he didn’t stay in with her. She was crying, saying that she was so worried about what he was doing. I think Eddie feels trapped. He probably just married LeAnn for the money, and there are only so many vacations you can take before you get bored with someone.”

Eddie’s cheating ruined his first marriage to Brandi, and she had a chance to confront one of her rivals, Scheana, while at the West Hollywood restaurant SUR with her “Housewives” co-stars.

“Brandi recognized Scheana – who was working there as a waitress – and straight out said to her, ‘You used to sleep with my ex-husband!’” recalled a pal of Brandi. “Amazingly, Scheana didn’t even deny it. Later on, Brandi told her friends, ‘I really do feel sorry for LeAnn. Eddie will never change – once a cheater, always a cheater.’”

Meanwhile, LeAnn’s official story about going into the “treatment facility” is that she sought help after being “cyber-bullied” by two women on Twitter.

“She’s even filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against them, claiming they illegally recorded a phone conversation with her and posted snippets online,” said the source.

“While LeAnn may have been upset over the Twitter postings, the truth is that she had a meltdown when she found out Eddie was still talking to his former mistress.”

[From The National Enquirer]

We covered the Scheana Marie situation back when it began to unravel, in 2009. Scheana gave interviews (which I believed) claiming to be Eddie’s mistress when he was still married to Brandi Glanville, and then she reappeared in the tabloids, seeming to claim that she and Eddie were still fooling around when Eddie and Brandi were over and he was seeing LeAnn. You can read out archives here – she used to date John Mayer too, so I hope that tells you something. Would Eddie be dumb enough to still be in contact with his (alleged!) ex-mistress? Er. Mm. Huh.

Oh, and Radar has a story from a “legal expert” on how LeAnn’s case against Kimberly Smiley is going to boomerang back onto LeAnn and make her medical history admissible in court. You can read that story here.

Photos courtesy of WENN.