Keith Richards has changed his mind again. A sign of early alzheimer’s? Here’s what he has to say now about what he puts up his nose.

“The cocaine bit was rubbish,” he said. “I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with.

“I pulled the lid off [my father’s urn] and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table,” Richards continued. “I’m going, ‘I can’t use the brush and dustpan for this’.

“What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of… y’know, he went down a treat.”

NME

Keith, whatever, anything you put up your nose is kind of gross. Fingers, cocaine, ashes…But I can kind off see your point about the dustpan. I wouldn’t want to mix someone’s ashes up with food scraps and bits of cat hair either. I’m not sure about ingesting your ancestors being respectable though?

Here’s what he had to say before, but he was recovering from a head injury (also discussed in the NME interview) so maybe that was the problem.

“The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

“My dad wouldn’t have cared, he didn’t give a shit. It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive.”

NME

When I was in my early teens I discovered the Rolling Stones and played all my parents records. After merciless mocking at school, I then worked out the band were older than my parents. I’m not sure why the fact that the albums were vinyl didn’t clue me in.

Anyway, the Stones still rock pretty hard. As Keith says “They’re the only band I care about, I can’t wait to get back on the road with those bastards, who happen to miraculously be one of the best bands in the world. I dunno how the hell it happened.”

In sad but not shocking news, Amy Winehouse’s hospitalization for “exhaustion” turned out to be the celebrity synonym for exhaustion, “drug overdose.”

The tiny hard-partying singer, who has disappointed countless fans by repeatedly missing gigs and now canceling the rest of her tour, was dragged into London’s University College Hospital yesterday by a female friend and her husband. She was rushed in for treatment after receptionists saw the state she was in.

Her stomach was pumped and she was given a shot of adrenaline.

Tattooed Amy, whose stick-thin frame and sallow complexion has worried friends and fans alike, was given an adrenaline shot in the early hours drama. And she had her stomach pumped…

“She was with a female friend and a bloke who I think was her husband. He was wearing a trilby.

“They came in and went straight up to the reception desk. Her friends looked really worried about her.

“The bloke was holding her up because she couldn’t really stand on her own. Her girlfriend was doing all the talking and the receptionist seemed to be listening very carefully.

“That’s when I realised Amy must have been really ill because although there was a big crowd of people in the waiting area, she was rushed straight through.

“A nurse came over and helped Amy into the main part of the hospital.”

[From The Sun]

The Sun notes that Amy’s new husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, jokes about crack use on his myspace and lists his occupation as “rent boy.”

There was a blind item yesterday that suggested that Winehouse was doing crack in the bathroom at Lollapalooza. Before the news came out that she suffered from “exhaustion” I was speculating that she might die young. It’s not something that you want to think about, but this woman seems hell bent on self destruction. Commentor h said on that post:

it’s amazing what behavior will be excused because someone has talent. will anyone be surprised when she overdoses?

I wonder if they’ll mention Winehouse’s overdose in the October issue of Vogue? She’s due to be featured on the cover.

Header image is of Winehouse’s husband at their house with flowers yesterday. Thanks to WENN. Image below is of a performance on 4/14/07. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Lindsay Lohan’s estranged father, ex-con and proselytizing jail convert Michael Lohan, made a recent statement that suggests that his daughter was involved in drugs and alcohol in her mid teens. He is quoted as saying that the fallen star was under investigation by authorities at the age of 15 due to her association with drug dealers:

Michael Lohan, who is estranged from his daughter, reveals the Mean Girls star was followed by investigators on leaving home in New York for Hollywood because of her criminal connections. He says, “They said Lindsay was surrounded by criminal activity and was being exposed to alcohol and drugs.” Michael claims the investigation was covered up to protect his daughter’s burgeoning career.

[From Contact Music]

This isn’t really surprising news, but it is kind of telling that the guy would blab about his daughter when she’s in trouble. With supportive parents like this, you can sort of see how Lohan ended up a lying drug addict who regularly puts other peoples’ lives at risk and refuses to take responsibility for her actions.

It’s unclear in what context Michael Lohan gave this quote, although it could have been in his custody battle for Lohan’s three younger siblings, Michael Jr., 19, Aliana, 13, and Dakota, 10.

Lohan’s dad also said that his ex Dina let her boyfriend raise their children, and accused him of being a drunk.

Michael has instructed his lawyers to write to his ex-wife complaining she allowed “substitute father” Jim McMillan to bring up the actress and her siblings Michael Jr., 19, Aliana, 13, and Dakota, 10, reports the New York Post.

Michael says, “Jim McMillan should not be in the presence of my children — especially when I’m being kept from them. He is no example, nor is he a substitute father.”

His lawyer John DiMascio says, “During my client’s telephone calls with the children, he has overheard Mr. McMillan in the background making inappropriate comments. On a more disturbing note, it appears that Mr. McMillan was inebriated.”

[From SFGate]

This is the guy who was jailed for nearly two years on multiple DUI and assault charges, so it’s not like he should be pointing fingers.

Lindsay is now in her third rehab this year, a facility in Utah called Cirque Lodge that’s just as posh as the last two rehab facilities that she failed to take seriously.

Update: TMZ reports that In Touch has details of Lohan being physically abused by her father at the age of 16, as told by a bodyguard who witnessed the incident:

Almeida recounts a particularly nasty scene between Lindsay and dad Michael to In Touch. When Lindsay was 16, Michael freaked out while driving, “slammed on the brakes and dragged her out of the car, pushed her up against the hood, screamed at her and called her a slut. This was on the Long Island Expressway! I got in the middle of it and pulled him off.”

And the bodyguard says that Dina Lohan let daughter Lindsay hang out with boys and drink at a young age. At the age of 15 she was allowed to spend the night with then-boyfriend Aaron Carter alone in a hotel room and that “They knew Lindsay was sleeping in Aaron’s room. But they seemed happy she had chosen somebody who could benefit her singing career.”

From Pretty on the Outside

I don’t usually run these, but I couldn’t resist this one from The NY Daily News:

Which troubled, hard-partying Lollapalooza performer cleared out a bathroom over the weekend in Chicago and then smoked what our spy-in-the-stall swears was a crack pipe?

Here are pictures of Amy Winehouse performing at Lollapalooza. At least she made it there. I know this story could be about just about any rock star, but she’s the first one that came to mind.

There’s a story that she’s been approached to design a clothing line multiple times. Wife beaters and dirty cut off shorts for all.

And amazingly, Amy is going to be on the cover of Vogue in September October. Female First reports that Anna Wintour ordered that Amy be put on the cover after hearing her album.

She may not be a fashion or lifestyle role model, but the girl sure can sing. Her music is incredible, and it’s refreshing to hear her on the radio. Hopefully she’ll hang in there and won’t die young. I know that’s a horrible thing to say, but she seems rather bent on self destruction. She has said that she would like to have children soon, so maybe she’ll find a new purpose in life and will be able to clean up.

Thanks to PR Photos for these pictures.

In a new interview in Elle Magazine, conducted less than two days before Lohan was busted for drunk driving, she says she would not drive drunk and was “much more responsible than that” despite the fact that she was already nabbed for an earlier DUI resulting in a minor accident at that point. She also defended the fact that she’s a media whore, saying she likes the food at the Ivy and will drive down Robertson any time she damn pleases.

She admitted she’s narcissistic, and tells an asinine story about how ex-boyfriend Calum Best caught her looking in the mirror and she said “damn I look good.”

As for her career she says she should “be nominated for an award for all the work I’ve done” and then brings up the fact that she played two characters in Parent Trap when she was 12! That was 9 years ago, the girl is delusional. After hearing how she drunkenly commandeered a guy’s car, ran over his friend’s foot without looking back, and took two guys hostage in a high speed car chase while they pleaded for their lives I didn’t think I could dislike this woman any more, but I’ve found out today that was possible.

On her reputation for drunk driving: “I wouldn’t violate … I’m much more responsible than that. I would not do that.”

On attending rehab at Wonderland before her 21st birthday: “I was growing up and going out a lot, and I needed to have a balance. I was glad I went, because I needed to get away from everyone and I didn’t know how to do that. And I learned a lot there. A bunch of my friends – I was with them last night – they’re in AA for, like, years.”

On her sometimes-boyfriend Calum Best: “I like him. He’s me in male form. We’re very similar. Stubborn, rebellious, very smart, coy, a little bit narcissistic – I think all actors have a little bit of that, and so they should. We’ll be kidding around, like the other day when we were in the Bahamas … I was walking by some mirror. And he caught me looking in the mirror and he goes, ‘I caught that!’ I was like, ‘Damn, I look good!’

On her future projects: “There’s this Walter Salles film I really want to do. It’s called On the Road. It has the vibe of that movie The Dreamers […] I want to work with Walter Salles so bad. I had to audition for him. It was the first audition I’ve had since Freaky Friday.”

On the media firestorm surrounding her: “I feel like the asshole, the idiot, because I feel like I’m distracting from the other things that are important, like global warming and that kind of stuff. I genuinely mean that. And I don’t know what to do.”

On avoiding fame: “I hate it, like, when these people say, ‘Well, why do you go to the Ivy if you don’t want …’ Seriously, I like their food! I can’t go to a restaurant? I know I’m going to get pictures taken. I’m fine with it. And I’m going to go have their food. People give you shit for it: ‘Don’t go on Robertson!’ What, I can’t drive down the street?”

On sleep troubles: “I have really bad insomnia. My whole life. I get nervous at night going to bed, and being awake alone really freaks me out.”

On her career aspirations: “I just want to be nominated for an award for all the work I’ve done. It’s so funny – people forget that I played two characters in Parent Trap when I was twelve years old.”

[Highlight from September, 2007 Elle interview sent via e-mail]

She also falsely claims she only went out without panties once in Venice, but she did it again that month in London, (link NSFW) hiking her skirt up in the back of a car to show her shaved kitty. She said people digitally manipulate the pictures of her. She also said that she’s just “best friends” with Samantha Ronson.

One moment she claims to not look at nude pictures of herself online and then she goes on to say people alter them to make her look fat. It’s pretty obvious that he does look at pictures of herself from the way she blathers on. Liars often give themselves away with too many details.

What’s up with going commando in public?
Me?
You - getting off a boat, getting out of a car. You need to spend some time on the naughty mat.
It was once, and it was when I was in Venice. And I was rushing through the room, threw the Prada dress on. And that’s what happened. And I didn’t even see the picture. I don’t look at that shit - that’s gross. If I wear a dress I have underwear on.
Denial is not a river in Egypt.
Can I tell you something? If I’m wearing a nude thong, they retouch it. I f’ck around on my computer, I know how easy it is. They make my face look swollen. I’m like, “Are you that bored?” I hear things about the night before that never happened. Like, they said I was dating my best friend - the Samantha Ronson thing. She’s my best friend!

[From PDF File of September, 2007 interview in Elle Magazine. Sent via e-mail]

This girl does know how to stay out of the spotlight as she’s been MIA for over a week. She’s thought to be in an undisclosed rehab. I bet it’s worse for her not to get her picture taken than it is to not be able to drink or do drugs. She was in rehab for well over a month before her latest DUI but there were rumors that she found ways to get high in there anyway. She certainly figured out how to get her photo taken.

When are they going to put this bitch in jail already?

Today’s NY Post says that Lindsay lost a potential contract with Louis Vuitton after repeatedly stealing clothes they outfitted her in for photo shoots. They won’t even lend her items in the future. Gorbachev probably returns all his sample stuff without a problem.

Radar has an article detailing the way that Lohan’s alcohol-detecting ankle bracelet worked, and it was functioning on the night that she was pulled over for DUI. The thing is, it only transmits information back to the monitoring company when she’s in range of the transmitting device - which was in her home. If she’s out, or if she stays somewhere else for days, it will just look like she’s not home and no data will be sent about her level of drunkenness or sobriety. What’s more is that as a voluntary wearer of the device Lohan can state who gets sent the reports from the company, if anyone, and she’s not required to send back data with any level of frequency. In other words, the thing was just for show:

But Radar has learned that the device registered Lindsay’s drinking exactly as it was supposed to. “We’re very confident that it was working properly,” says SCRAM spokesperson Kathleen Brown. “In fact there are a number of diagnostics that ensure it.” But even though the bracelet registered the actress’s drinking, it isn’t designed to transmit that information on the spot. Instead it works in tandem with a modem, which is placed in Lohan’s home. Meaning Linds could have attend the binge drinking party of the century, but as long as she stayed far enough away from the modem, the proper authorities would be none the wiser until (and if) she stumbled home.

Who are these proper authorities? They’re whoever Lindsay and her representatives wanted them to be. Brown notes that Lohan chose to wear the bracelet voluntarily, a gesture adopted by many people arrested for DUI in order to show good faith to the court. Maybe when Lohan returned home and her lawyer or mom was notified that she had been drinking, action would have been taken. Or maybe not. As it turns out, there’s no guarantee of accountability when someone voluntarily wears a SCRAM, there’s only good PR.

[Radar Online]

She seems even more devious to me now, and I bet there was more than just Coke and Red Bull in those drinks she had constantly in hand while she was out partying after rehab. It’s possible she wasn’t drinking until that night, though. TMZ reports that her lawyer was notified by the device that Lohan was drunk, but she wasn’t able to get to her in time.

Meanwhile more details have come out about the night of Lindsay’s arrest if you’re interested. As has been already reported, she either fired her assistant Tarin or the woman quit. Lindsay followed her in her car after they had an argument, and there were two other people in the car with Lindsay. Tarin’s mother called the cops and said someone was chasing her. It sounds to me like Lindsay was chasing the assistant and the paparazzi were chasing Lindsay, but that is unclear.

The cops came and there were a bunch of people in the parking lot. They focused on Lindsay. As for the cocaine found on Lindsay, her friends claim she was wearing someone else’s pants!

Lindsay’s mom Dina didn’t rush to be by her side right away as she has to appear in court on Friday and Monday for the ongoing custody battle with her ex. She was in constant contact with Lindsay after her arrest.

It is thought that Lindsay will join her mother in NY at some point. People were seen piling boxes of stuff into an SUV outside of Lindsay’s place. She is said to be in rehab at an undisclosed location.

Details from The Insider via ONTD.

Header image from Pretty On the Outside.

Brigitte Nielsen, one of the slurring stars of the “Surreal Life” and the UK’s “Celebrity Big Brother” has checked herself into rehab, according to her manager. She made the decision after a family intervention. He would not confirm what she checked herself in for, only to say that when she got out, they would have a big party for her with “Coca Cola only.” The National Enquirer reports that Nielsen suffers from alcoholism.

SYLVESTER STALLONE’s statuesque ex-wife BRIGITTE NIELSEN has checked into rehab in North Hollywood following a family intervention. New husband Mattia Dessi was among those who begged the Danish model/actress to seek help for alcoholism, according to the National Enquirer. Nielsen reluctantly checked into the Cri-Help facility on 9 July (07). Insiders tell the publication Nielsen has been fighting a serious alcohol problem for years. She appeared drunk on American reality TV show The Surreal Life in 2005. A source says, “It took an ultimatum from her family to get through to Brigitte - either she gets help or she loses her loved ones’ support.” Nielsen’s manager, Ryan Glasglow, confirms the actress is in rehab, stating “Brigitte’s getting the help she needs and has a positive attitude about her recovery.”

[From Contact Music]

Anyone who saw Brigitte on the “Surreal Life” knows she was definitely on something most of the time. I remember one episode where the cast was supposed to record a song together, and Brigitte was passed out on the couch the whole time. She finally roused herself for about 28 seconds to record something. There are few things that will help your career – i.e. get you back in the headlines – like checking into rehab. What happened to the good old days when people would quietly duck into a rehab facility somewhere out of the way?

Dating Flavor Flav will do this to you. The rest of you be warned. I don’t mean the alcoholism, but have you seen this lady? I thought she was in her mid-sixties; turns out she’s 44. For a model, she has not aged well. Screw that, for a human being, she has not aged well. She is the best anti-drinking, anti-smoking, pro-sunscreen advertisement I’ve ever seen. I bet Flav’s giant clock was just a smack in the face to her. A constant reminder of the inescapable ravages of time. That’s got to be rough.

Everyone’s favorite former meth addict, Jodie Sweetin, (aka Stephanie Tanner from “Full House”) got married in Las Vegas this past Saturday. According to Norm Clarke of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sweetin walked down the aisle for the second time at the famed Little Church of the West.

Jodie Sweetin, who played Stephanie in “Full House” during the sitcom’s eight-year run, got married Saturday at the Little Church of the West. Sweetin, who overcame a crystal meth addiction that cost her five teeth, married Cody Herpin, 30, of Los Angeles. Sweetin, 25, joins a long list of celebrities who married at the chapel, best known for the site of where Elvis and Ann Margret exchanged vows during the filming of “Viva Las Vegas.”

[From the Las Vegas Review-Journal]

Hopefully this marriage will work out better than her last one. Sweetin famously admitted to “Good Morning America” last year that she had developed a meth problem that cost her, (in addition to the five teeth) her marriage to her police officer husband. Sweetin claimed that after “Full House” ended, she felt a sense of loss and didn’t know what to do with herself. She tried to be normal by going to a regular high school and college, and ended up married at age 20. She quickly became bored with her life and wasn’t getting any acting jobs, and ended up experimenting with drugs and getting addicted to meth. Sweetin went on a major three-day bender, after which her friends and family (and former Full House costars including the Olsen twins, Bob Saget and John Stamos) staged an intervention. She then attended Promises (way before Britney and Lindsay made it trendy) for a six week treatment.

It seemed like she was doing a decent job of getting her act back together. Naively, at the time I wondered why she went on “Good Morning America” to announce her addiction when she’d fallen under the radar – it wasn’t like the paparazzi were stalking her or she’d gotten arrested by the cops. Then I realized it was a good story and got her back into the news, which is what she needed if she wanted to resurrect her acting career, as she claimed. Currently the gigs aren’t coming in droves, though she is the host of the prestigious “Pants off Dance off” where contestants strip down to their unmentionables while dancing to music. I smell an Emmy coming that show’s way! No wait, that’s not what I smell.

I remember seeing pictures from Jodie’s 2002 wedding, and it was the most traditional looking event I’d ever seen, complete with the poofiest veil worn since 1989. Candace Cameron was her maid of honor, and Candace’s daughter was her flower girl. It was one of those weddings that makes you think, “Hey, this girl won’t be shooting meth anytime soon.” But I guess that’s part of my naiveté. Let’s hope this works out better.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Jodie Sweetin is shown in the header image on 6/28 at a Pink Taco Restaurant opening in Century City, California. Thanks to WENN for this picture.

It will take more than sobriety to resurrect Lohan’s film career. The movie that was rearranged around Lindsay’s rehab stint, Poor Things, has been cancelled and producers are blaming Lohan’s jaunt to Vegas. They say that despite the ankle bracelet her partying scared off the investors in the film.

Lohan supporters claim that filmmakers are using her behavior as an excuse and that the film had problems that can’t be blamed on her. Those rumors about Lohan doing whippets in jail and trying to score ecstasy while in Vegas surely didn’t help matters.

Lohan was supposed to start filming “Poor Things” with Shirley MacLaine when she was out of rehab. But last week, product vendors including GE and Dell computers, who had been promised placement in the movie in exchange for cash, got a disturbing e-mail from set designer Fontaine Beauchamp Hebb.

Hebb’s e-mail, with the subject line: ” ‘Poor Things’ has been cancelled,” said, “Sorry to be the harbinger of bad news, but I just received a call from Jacky Gilardi, the producer, pulling the plug on the ill-fated film.

“Apparently, Ms. Lohan’s antics in Las Vegas over the weekend have scared the bond companies and all of the funding has been pulled . . . I look forward to working together in the future and trust our next project will not be as fraught with difficulty.”

The insurers were said to worry that Lohan, despite wearing an alcohol-monitoring device around her ankle and claiming to take daily drug tests, had gone out clubbing with pals…

But a Lohan friend fumes: “She had nothing to do with that movie shutting down. It was a mess to begin with. They randomly fired Channing Tatum for Giovanni Ribisi, and then financing fell through because producers spent money like water. It was only supposed to cost $4 million - Lindsay was being paid nothing for that role.

[From Page Six]

Meanwhile Lohan turned herself into cops yesterday for her May 26 DUI. She was booked and released from the Beverly Hills precinct in about an hour and posted $30,000 bail.

She will be arraigned on August 24, which means that the charges will be officially stated at the time. E! Online reports that it’s unknown if she will be charged for the small amount of cocaine found in her car after the accident.

Lohan is also said to be working on a new album, which she says she wants “to be a dance record.” She says that she will start recording in August, and that she plans to tour. Lohan claims she wants to do “a Madonna-style show.” [Details form Contact Music]

Now that her movie career is on hold, maybe it’s a good plan to focus on her abandoned music career. Musicians get a lot more leeway for bad behavior.

Amy Winehouse, the sobriety challenged British singer, has canceled so many shows in the last month that bookies are actually placing odds on her showing up to her concerts. Bookies normally stick to football games and American Idol competitions. They generally don’t bet on a person sucking. But it appears that, thanks to the unreliable, alcohol-challenged Amy Winehouse, now they do.

“Following a string of cancellations bookies are now offering stakes as to whether Amy Winehouse will show up at her forthcoming gigs.

Winehouse recently cancelled performances at Oxygen in Dublin, T in the Park in Scotland and Summer Pops in Liverpool citing “exhaustion” - although she was spotted drinking in a North London pub.

William Hill – one of the countries biggest bookmakers– is currently offering odds of 1/2 on Winehouse fulfilling her commitment to appear at the Eden Sessions at the Eden Project in Cornwall on July 17th.

A spokesperson for William Hill said: “Amy has cancelled too many gigs for us not to give out odds. The concert is next week so she’ll have to sort herself out for that and I can’t see it happening,” reports NME.”

[From Gigwise]

According to Perez Hilton, Amy canceled her show at Holland’s North Sea Jazz Festival this weekend. But according to the festival’s website, her concert time was simply pushed back. I’m assuming she did perform (surprisingly) because otherwise there’d be a million articles about it already, and a lot of money would be changing hands.

The Sun is running a “Wino Watch” to keep tabs of Amy’s partying and comparing it to canceled shows.

She then partied backstage into the wee hours with SADIE FROST and JACK OSBOURNE. But my snaps show her the next day, clearly feeling unwell. Amy held her tum as she dashed to use a cafe toilet.

Earlier, she told her driver to pull over as she gagged. Later she was spotted slumped at the counter of a takeaway.

Hardly the way to battle that exhaustion, eh, Amy?

Yesterday Amy jetted out to Holland. Well, I hope it’s a sign she’s fit and well – and ready to entertain her paying fans.”

[From The Sun Online]

Winehouse did cancel a fourth performance last week.

Amy Winehouse has cancelled her fourth concert this week after succumbing to a grueling live schedule.

The soul star was due to play a show in St. Peolten with the Beastie Boys, The Prodigy and The Roots, but that appearance went the way of a show in Austria, as well as festival slots at T in The Park in Scotland, the Oxegen Festival in Ireland and Liverpool Summer Pops, as the 23-year-old succumbed to exhaustion and was ordered to rest by doctors.

[From Sound Generator]

Let’s talking about grueling live schedules for a minute here. Ten concerts in a month? Grueling (I’m told… admittedly I haven’t been on tour in a while). Ten canceled concerts in a month, with a handful still taking place? Not so grueling. You know what is grueling? Drinking too much alcohol all the time. Especially when it looks like you weigh about 98 pounds, and a good 20 of that is your beehive hair weave. Amy Winehouse, listen to me. You are so awesome, but you are also an awesome mess! I don’t think you really understand that people are not going to keep coming back forever, and you only get so many second chances, no matter how much talent you have. Concert tickets cost a lot. CDs don’t sell like they used to, so performance revenue is pretty important if a girl wants to have enough money to buy her alcohol. So think of it like this: if want to be able to keep drinking, you’re going to have to show up to enough performances to get the money to drink. Convoluted logic, I know, but it seems to be the only way to get you on stage.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.