This story is a few days old, but I’ll just use Labor Day weekend as an excuse. Rihanna’s been in Europe lately working on her fashion line, which of course will sell like hotcakes but will be oh-so-trashy. But Rihanna is definitely not the all-work-and-no-play type of girl, so she has been enjoying some nights on the London scene. These photos show her outside outside the Rose Club and fooling around on some stranger’s moped after she nearly got kicked out of the club for making a royal mess after she drunkenly hopped onto a table, which promptly broke and sent shattered glass in all directions.

Obviously, Rihanna has a bit of an issue with alcohol. She’s forever posting photos of herself with a drink in hand to various social media sites, and she recently partied herself into the hospital after the Met Gala. She’s also been accused of having narcissistic personality disorder, which could explain why she revels in showing off her drunkenness in public. Basically, she’s a mess, and here’s what happened at that London club:

Boozy Rihanna sparked fresh fears over her party lifestyle yesterday after clashing with bouncers in a nightclub. The hard-drinking pop queen was hauled away by doormen after jumping on a table and wrecking it – sending glass flying.

Rihanna, 24, was allowed to stay at the trendy London nightspot only after pals spoke out on her behalf – but left at 4am, pictured above, for ANOTHER party. Earlier the raging Bajan had screamed: “Don’t you know who I am?” as doormen grabbed her following her drunken fall.

Bouncers moved in after the beauty, wearing thigh-high snakeskin boots, jumped on the private table, which broke apart and sent her crashing to the floor. Bottles of champagne and glasses shattered as she fell, drawing gasps from onlookers.

Security hauled the singer away from the table in front of 300 revellers and a scuffle kicked off. Rihanna – seen downing champagne and cocktails – yelled at the bouncers while friends shouted at them to leave her alone. One pal said: “They were trying to eject her when her girlfriends starting screaming, ‘That’s Rihanna, you idiots!’

“Ri was telling the bouncers to get off and there was a scuffle. I don’t think they recognised her. Finally, before they got to the exit doors, they realised their mistake and the club manager ordered free drinks for the table. And a new table, of course.”

The early-hours incident at central London’s Rose Club sparked fresh fears that the Umbrella star’s partying is spiralling out of control. One music industry insider said: “Her boozy behaviour’s raising eyebrows. Everyone likes a drink, but her more than most.”

[From The Sun]

Oddly enough, I take issue with the idea of the bar’s making a “mistake” in dragging Rihanna away from the broken-glass-and-table mess she’d made simply because she’s a famous pop star, i.e., “kind of a big deal.” Anyone who engages in such drunken shenanigans is a danger to the public and to herself, and I think that, no matter who someone is, they should be ejected from a club when they pull that kind of nonsense. But no. Rihanna was allowed to continue boozing it up regardless of what she’d done, and that’s exactly how it’s going to go down until someone (probably her management — which still includes Jay-Z) makes her get her ass into rehab.

Here’s RiRi hopping on a Eurostar train bound to Paris. Her fashion line is going to be one hot mess.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News and WENN

I’ve come to the grand conclusion that it’s quite difficult to find a recent photo of Shia LaBeouf looking halfway decent — especially considering that he looked like hell at the recent Lawless premiere in Los Angeles — so we’ll have to make do with these photos on 8/13 when he at least bothered to pull his hair back in NYC. A slight improvement, no?

Shia is still promoting Lawless, which mercifully hits theaters this week and sees him presumably fully clothed (unlike in the upcoming Lars Von Trier movie, where Shia will have actual sex and call it art). He plays the bootlegging Jack Boundurant, who is the youngest of a brotherly trio (with the other brothers played by Tom Hardy and Jason Clarke). Oddly enough, the powers that be have decided that Shia is the best possible face to do the vast majority of promotional duties for this movie. (Although Kaiser will be covering a Tom Hardy interview today.) Why aren’t we hearing a lot more from, say, Guy Pearce and Gary Oldman as well? Instead, we’re getting Shia, who’s using the platform to brag about dropping acid on a film set because he’s so “method” and also to whine about the studio system. I guess they figure since he was Transformers boy, people will want to hear from him. We’ll see how the box office fares as a result, shall we?

He gained 40 pounds for Lawless: “The first part of my preparation was weight gain, especially when I found out who was going to be playing my brothers. Tom Hardy was getting ready for The Dark Knight Rises, and Jason Clark was getting ready for this war film that he’s finishing up now. Everybody was getting bigger around me, so in order for me to stand next to them and feel like we came from the same fabric, it was mandatory that I got big as well. I landed on that set at about 180 pounds, and now I’m 140, so it was a lot of gym time and a lot of food.”

On camaraderie on the set: “I’m an only child, so I’m pretty much a loner. It’s easier to not have too many things anchoring me. When I’m working, that’s my family.”

On his bad boy image: “I’ve made mistakes along the way, but I’m learning. I’m more comfortable with myself, and I’m calming down. I think most twentysomething men go through similar struggles and start seeing what boundaries and what rules are. It’s about pushing limits and trying to find yourself. I’ve never been able to learn from other people’s mistakes — I’m not that smart — so I usually learn by trial by fire.”

On the fame monster: “I’ve been blessed in that any kind of fame that I’ve received has never been like pop-star-fanatical. There’s never been any fanatical nature to anybody who has ever appreciated anything I’ve been in or has noticed me. It’s usually pretty respectful and quiet. People are
very reserved with me, actually.”

[From Parade]

I don’t know exactly what Shia is trying to accomplish by explaining his bar fights
and hissy fits as a “trial by fire.” That’s kind of a poor excuse, but hey, at least he didn’t try to justify himself by saying he was going “method” for a movie. Nope, that’s an excuse he reserves for acid dropping and banging chicks who are not his girlfriend. He’s such an artist.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News

Tara Reid has been partying up a storm in St. Tropez for the greater part of this month, and here’s a photo that she posted (a few times and probably drunkenly) to her Twitter page. I often wonder exactly how Tara, who basically has nothing going on in the acting department (although her IMDb profile reveals the ironically titled My Little Trainwreck in development), can afford to take vacations with such frequency. The answer, obviously, is that Tara plays the “paid arrangement” game, which is is how she was able to get drunk at Cannes on the arm of that 60-year-old jewellry designer. Yuck.

Oddly enough, part of me is actually disappointed in Tara even though she’s so known for being drunk that she famously partied so hard her tooth fell out on one occasion. I mean, she cleaned up so well and looked so vibrant at the American Reunion premiere that I couldn’t help but hope she’d turned over a new leaf. But no. Here’s Tara hanging out on Roberto Cavalli’s yacht (and about to receive a very sloppy kiss from a very sloppy random dude) in St. Tropez on 7/15.

And here’s Tara getting cozy with a different guy while hanging out with the chronically stoned Stephen Dorff as well on 7/8:

Well it’s been a few weeks, and Tara’s still partying her ass off in France, and she has now been hospitalized for acute pancreatitis, which — according to WebMD — is quite often caused by heavy alcohol consumption. Are you surprised?

Tara Reid has been hospitalized in Nice, France for Acute Pancreatitis … TMZ has learned.

Sources tell us … Tara has been in the hospital for several days and will remain there awhile longer until she can recover. We’re told her condition is not life threatening.

According to the US National Library of Medicine — Acute Pancreatitis occurs when your body eats away at its pancreas … causing horrible things like vomiting, nausea, diarrhea and fever.

In a photo taken Tuesday (above) Tara was seen walking around holding her stomach and looking worried.

But get this … sources tell us told Tara was partying it up on some yachts in Saint Tropez and hitting up the town’s nightlife in the days before she was hospitalized.

A rep for Tara could not be reached for comment.

[From TMZ]

That poor rep of Tara’s never knows what’s going on with his client. Remember last year when he confirmed that she’d married Michael Axtmann, but then a few hours later, the world found out that she’d married some other random dude, Zack Kehayov, instead? Tara likely only communicates with her rep through her own drunken texts anyway, so I guess we can’t really blame him for not wanting to talk to the press at this point. As for Tara, if she really did drink herself into the hospital, I hope rehab is on the way. Let’s face it — the girl is long overdue.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN

Last week, Jezebel ran a first person essay from a anonymous mom who regularly smoked pot and had a baby at home she cared for, while high. The mom described how she could focus on her baby and play games with her while high in a way that wasn’t possible after drinking too much. She wrote that she wanted to take the stigma away from marijuana use by parents. It was a funny essay, but this mom’s kid was a baby and her husband was there to pick up the slack. Is she still going to be toking up daily as the kid grows up? It just seemed short-sighted to me.

Yesterday, The Today Show’s blog ran a related story from a 40-something mom to 8 and 6 year-old boys who admitted to smoking pot daily to cope with stress. This mom, who only goes by “Margaret,” went on to call moms who drink too much “pathetic.” It was controversial to say the least, and I really didn’t see how this lady is better or different than moms who drink too much. Here’s part of Today’s story, with more at the source:

Every night, Margaret’s two boys fly into the house after sports practice and flip on the TV, while she races to the kitchen to get dinner cooking. “It’s that tedious witching hour when I feel incredibly frazzled,” says the Tennessee singer/songwriter mom of a 6- and an 8-year-old. But instead of pouring herself a glass or two of merlot, she heads to the standalone garage next to their house for a few puffs of Humboldt Kush, one of the four strains of pot she smokes seven days a week.

The drug helps her keep focus on the giant statue of popsicle sticks she’s building with her kids and relaxes her so she can get through the rest of the night without stressing. “It can make folding a pile of laundry fun,” says Margaret, 45, who asked that we not use her last name for fear of getting in trouble with the law. “If I didn’t smoke, that’d be three piles later in the week.”

Still, she doesn’t flaunt her marijuana use. Her sons aren’t allowed to go into the room where she keeps the drugs locked up, and she hides it from other moms who would keep their kids away if they knew she smoked pot.

“Being judged for doing something nontoxic and totally organic, enjoying a god-given plant, by moms who suck back two bottles of Chardonnay like sports drinks feels like s—,” complains Margaret. “Any hypocrisy is hard to swallow. A drunk mother is pathetic and I often leave parties when I experience other mothers tying one on.”

Margaret isn’t the only pot-smoking mom tired of being judged by moms who religiously drink glasses of wine or “mommy juice.” Recently, one mom stirred up some controversy when she admitted to parenting while stoned in an essay on Jezebel.com. Today, the group Moms for Marijuana International has more than 18,000 likes on Facebook.

“No matter what you use, you shouldn’t be judged if it works for you, you’re productive, and you do no harm,” says Diane Fornbacher, co-vice chair of the Women’s Alliance at NORML, the non-profit lobbying organization working to legalize marijuana. “Marijuana parents aren’t perfect, but they’re far less imperfect than parents who use alcohol irresponsibly. Cannabis can influence people to be nicer to one another. You rarely find a story that says two stoners beat each other up outside of a bar.”

Sharon Letts, a California mom who brewed Cannabis tea for her 16-year-old daughter when she was stricken with pain from fibromyalgia, agrees. “Cannabis takes the edge off your day, in the same way wine does. But it’s not addictive, it is habitual. It doesn’t ruin your body like alcohol. I would much rather see parents using cannabis than alcohol — hands down.”

Of course, pot is illegal and alcohol is legal. Letts and her daughter felt paranoid that the tea’s smell would alert their neighbors. The price for getting caught is high. In some states, moms risk getting arrested and incarcerated, as well as having their kids taken away from them.

“If I wanted to, I could sit with a glass of wine in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other, with a cigarette pressed between my lips, under the influence of prescription narcotics — all the while holding my child in my lap,” says Serra Frank, founding director of Moms for Marijuana and mother of two, ages 9 and 12.

“Everywhere we look our families are bombarded with advertisements for these drugs. Our societies benefit from taxes placed on the manufacture and sale of these drugs. Yet, we can’t make the decision to choose one of the most commonly used drugs, one that has proven to be much safer than all the rest? That’s just not logical.”

Whether a mom chooses wine or pot to take the edge off her day, how she uses the drug is important to consider.

[From The Today Show]

What about being sober around your kid(s)? What about striving to be a good mom by coping with negative feelings instead of blotting them out? Kids who are in grade school totally know when their parents are drunk or high. Kids who are younger than that depend on their parents for basic needs and are getting shafted when their caregivers aren’t all there. I’m not saying that it’s not fine to knock back a few or toke up as a parent, but not every weeknight at the “stressful time” as this mom claims. I do believe that smoking pot is no worse, or better, than drinking. I’m for decriminalization. Different strokes, but why get high all the time and set that example? It’s a slippery slope argument to say “it’s better than the drunk moms.” Maybe it is by some very low standards, but why not focus on your own family and dealing with your own issues without getting blotto? Also, I agree that there’s a huge problem with prescription drug abuse. But again it’s all drugs. Kids need moms who are there for them. This crap should be “recreational,” not daily.

Photo credit: clemes fait, Photocase and Susann Städter, Photocase.

Here are some new photos of Pink, Carey Hart and their daughter Willow in LA yesterday. Aren’t these cute? I love when we have new photos of Pink with her baby girl. Are you surprised Willow is a blonde? I am. I didn’t even remember that Pink is a natural blonde too. Anyway, cute photos, cute baby, so what else is new with Pink? She had a new radio interview, and she was talking about how her life has changed now that she’s a mom. No more cigs, no more whiskey. Good girl.

Motherhood hasn’t stopped Pink from living it up on a regular basis, but her ways of celebrating have indeed been altered.

Explaining that it’s “so much cooler” adding daughter Willow Sage to her and hubby Carey Hart‘s travel group, the pop singer, 32,told Philadelphia’s Q102 radio station on Wednesday, “We wake up and dance. [We] party naked in the hotel room.”

But she goes on to say that late nights with her little one in tow aren’t quite the same as the ones had when it was just with Hart, 36.

“It’s a different kind of partying,” Pink says, of what now consists of “diapers and underwear.”

Dropping her raging rituals included kicking her vices to the curb.

“It used to be whiskey, tears and cigarettes,” she says. “Now it’s [my baby's] kind of tears, no cigarettes and the color of poop. Pure joy. I miss the whiskey, not the cigarettes.”

The “Raise Your Glass” singer’s new upbeat, healthier outlook on life will be reflected in her new album, The Truth About Love, slated to drop in September.

“I do a lot of dancing now with [Willow] and I’m just happier,” she says. “This album is a lot of rock and roll but it reflects that there’s a dance party in our house … You’re career goes up and down, but … at the end of the day, if I didn’t do another thing, I’m blessed. I like myself more than I used to.”

[From People]

Willow is about 13 months old, so it’s possible the “no whiskey” thing could be a breastfeeding issue. But why couldn’t Pink have a whiskey anyway? Is the “no whiskey” thing more about “being a good mother”? Sigh… it’s been a while since I’ve had a drink too. I stopped drinking last year (for the most part – I had wine on Thanksgiving, and a few sips of a daiquiri a few months ago) and I haven’t really missed it that much. I gave it up for a diet/get-my-life-together thing, and once I stopped, I was fine. But the other day I really wanted a summery, fruity, rum-based cocktail but I didn’t have any mixers so I forgot about it. Now that I’ve read this Pink story, I’m thinking about how nice it would be to have some Jack Daniels on the rocks. I swear I barely think about alcohol these days, but maybe I should just go ahead and have a cocktail and stop being so f–king neurotic about it? *quietly obsessing*

We should do a poll. “Should Kaiser have a cocktail and stop being so g–damn neurotic?”

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

I’ve been saying since the beginning of this fart-blanketed catastrophe that Jessica Simpson is going to rue the day that she signed a $3 million contract with Weight Watchers. Jessica says there are no problems, tweeting, “Just so everyone knows…Weight Watchers hasn’t put ANY pressure on me! I’m trying to be as healthy as I can be for myself and I feel great!” – but we know the truth, don’t we? Weight Watchers will totally put pressure on her to lose weight, and some claim they’ve already set up goals for Jessica – goals which she’s already struggling with, like losing 50 pounds in five months. Now Us Weekly reports that WW has told Jessica she needs to lose AT LEAST 20 pounds by the end of August or they won’t pay her. FINE. She doesn’t need the money anyway, but it will be embarrassing for poor Jess if she can’t meet her goals. Also, guess who grabbed a cocktail as soon that baby was out of her?

The scale has spoken – and it doesn’t have any good news for Jessica Simpson. A source tells Hot Stuff that Jessica learned at her first Weight Watchers weigh-in – a few weeks after the May 1 birth of daughter Maxwell – she had gained 70 pounds. Luckily, Jessica has $4 million worth of motivation to shed them.

Her contract requires a 20 to 30 pound loss by the end of August or no payday, says a source. But it won’t be easy.

“Jessica has always had issues with junk food,” says a Simpson pal. So Jessica has called in reinforcements: She enlisted her mom, Tina, and a few pals to do the program “to help keep herself in check,” says the insider. Simpson, who plans to breastfeed through July, also ditched her beloved high-calorie margaritas, adds the source. “She had a few drinks postpregnancy, but then stopped.”

[From US Weekly, print edition]

Jessica had a problem with margaritas? I didn’t know that. I knew she had a problem with Scotch, though. I wonder if she still sips her beloved Macallan now that Maxwell has arrived? Is Maxwell drinking White Russians while breastfeeding? What is the caloric difference between a double Scotch, straight up, versus a margarita? So many questions.

But as for Weight Watchers and the money and all – I think Jessica just signed on to WW to give herself some instigation to get back into shape. But I swear, she had no idea how much Weight Watchers would pressure her to lose the weight fast.

Photos courtesy of Jessica’s Twitter, WENN & PCN.

Jack Osbourne has recently opened up about his Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, and he’s further commented that his parents, Ozzy and Sharon, handled it worse than he did. Jack has also stressed that his condition is not a death sentence, and he’s correct. Even though the quality of life severely deterioriates as the illness progresses, doctors have concluded that those with MS have a nearly normal life expectancy.

Still, one can understand why Kelly Osbourne would be particularly distressed at her brother’s diagnosis. She and Jack have always been very close, and about a week ago, Kelly was spotted taking a “sobriety break” while getting drunk on a first-class plane trip, and her spokesman initially denied the eyewitness report:

Kelly Osbourne has been on the wagon for three years – and she did not break her sobriety June 19 while on a flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta, the reality TV star representation told MailOnline.

“This is not true,” her spokesperson said.

Star Magazine reported Kelly, cracking under the pressure of her brother Jack Osbourne’s devastating diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, drank so much alcohol during the four-hour June 19th flight that she was “mumbling and her makeup was a mess.”

The magazine said when the 27-year-old Fashion Police star – who went through rehab twice, the last time in 2009 – boarded the flight, she looked calm and cool.

“She was gorgeous when she got on the flight,” it quotes an eyewitness as saying. “Her makeup was impeccable, her hair was up in a smart-looking bun and she was wearing cool shades.”

While on the flight, however, Kelly began ordering drinks, the magazine alleges.

“I saw a flight attendant bring alcoholic beverages over to Kelly’s section in First Class at least four or five times,” the witness is quoted. “And when we landed just after midnight, her assistant, who flew with her, had to help her off the plane.”

Continued the witness: “Kelly’s hair was hanging down, she was mumbling and her makeup was a mess. The guard and her assisant supported her under each arm and basically swaying from side to side.”

Kelly openly admitted she was frazzled when she boarded. “I hate flying on old planes it makes it even more scary!” she tweeted June 19th. The next day the daughter of rocker Ozzie Osbourne again tweeted of being uptight. “Had a nerves breakdown yesterday that was cool!cool! #Not.”

[From Daily Mail]

After Star’s report came out, Kelly backtracked on her spokesperson’s initial statement. She spoke to Radar online and came clean about why she got drunk on that plane. Apparently, a fellow approached her with some information about an MS website, and when she looked up the site after boarding the plane, she (in her words) “lost it“:

Kelly Osbourne is speaking out and admitting exclusively to RadarOnline.com that she was drunk on a plane recently, but explains the heartbreaking details that led up to her breakdown when she “lost it.”

In a candid interview, Kelly opened up about what happened to cause her to turn to alcohol.

“The first thing I want to say is the only reason I’m being so honest and telling you what happened is because I don’t think it’s fair for me to lie. I’m not going to say I didn’t do something when I did it.

“I got drunk on the plane to Atlanta,” Kelly said in a no-holds barred exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, and she revealed why.

“It was on an empty stomach, and before I got on the plane a gentleman came up to me and asked me how my brother was doing and told me about his brother having MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and directed me towards a website.

“On the plane I started looking at the website. It described how bad certain cases of MS got, and it made me lose it because I’ve sat through my mother having breast cancer, my dad almost dying from a bike accident, and now it’s my brother who’s my best friend. I lost it,” Kelly frankly admitted.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, on June 19 while flying from LAX to Atlanta, a fellow passenger on the plane noticed Kelly consuming alcohol, crying and being helped while she walked off the plane.

The daughter of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and brother to Jack Osbourne said that she doesn’t want her brother’s medical condition to be her cop-out for getting drunk.

“I hate the fact that I’m sitting here right now, and that’s even an excuse because it’s not an excuse.”

Kelly has spent time in a rehab center, but she spoke candidly about the fact that she drinks alcohol, but said her actions on the plane were not of a crazed drunk person.

“I have not lied about it. I have the occasional drink. I will never lie about that. That’s my choice that I make and I’m an adult and I have to be responsible for my actions. But it’s not like I was f*cking claiming there was a colonial woman on the wing. Like I was so out of it they had to land the plane or something. I got drunk on a plane, big deal.”

“The way I live my life after going to rehab is not the way that most people do. It isn’t. Yes, I still drink and I’ve always said that. I do have the occasional drink. I’m not using, I haven’t. I won’t. I’m not going to do that. I had a moment of just is this really happening to me all over again? And unfortunately it was in front of everyone.”

“I’m not one of those starlets that’s drinking vodka out of a water bottle thinking no one knows. If I’m going to have a f*cking drink, I’m 27 years old. I’m going to have one. Unfortunately I decided to have one on a plane to Atlanta and burst into tears.”

Kelly did say her only concern was her brother Jack and making sure that he understood what happened.

“I can’t stand knowing that he probably is thinking that it was because of him being diagnosed that I made a fool of myself. I made a fool of myself regardless of Jack and I hate that that’s even out there.”

[From Radar Online]

I’ve always wondered how some people manage to complete alcohol rehab and still occasionally knock back a drink or two. Drew Barrymore, the queen of childhood rehab, now indulges in the same way and has even launched her own brand of Pinot Grigio, so I guess it works for some people depending on what drove them to drink in the first place. I don’t know — I’m not an expert, but I find it hard to blame Kelly for drinking in this instance. If my brother was diagnosed with MS, I’d probably hit the bottle as well.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

Kaiser’s already covered these photos of Rihanna at the Battleship premiere, but I pulled out some more from the set because of how physically drained Rihanna looks at this event. Sure, her body looks great, but her eyes tell a different story. This premiere took place just a few days after the Met Gala where she wore that fantastic Tom Ford dress and then proceeded to allegedly land herself in the emergency room after partying hard and tweeting that freaky photo of an IV in her arm. This week’s issue of the Enquirer builds upon the events of the past few weeks and also refers to Rihanna’s blunt-filled, alcohol-laden Hawaiian vacation from this past holiday season. The tabloid has also talked to a couple of medical “experts” who have not treated Rihanna for their take on her downward spiral:

Rihanna is in a desperate life-or-death battle with liver damage caused by years of boozing and out-of-control partying, sources tell The Enquirer exclusively.

The 24-year-old Grammy winner was hospitalized after an early May bender, and her reckless behavior, couple with her grueling work schedule, has friends and experts warning that she’s on a fast track to becoming the next Whtiney Houston.

“Rihanna is spiraling out of control and is headed for an early grave,” said one concerned insider. “It never seems to be one beer or one cocktail. Once she gets started, Rihanna pounds drinks all night long, sometimes until the sun comes up. She definitely goes on binges. She’s been a hard drinker since her teens and her friends and family are desperately urging her to get into rehab.”

Medical experts say the sexy singer’s drinking habits could be deadly. “Rihanna could be dead tomorrow from liver failure,” Orlando-based, board-certified physicial Dr. Gabe Mirkin told The Enquirer. He noted: “Anybody who drinks alcohol for more than two hours a day, even if it is binge drinking once a week, is looking a premature death. Once the liver is permanently damaged, it’s over.”

Dr. Robert Waldman, consultant to the Cliffside Malibu treatment center and a 25-year veteran of addiction medicine, agreed. “The earlier you start to drink, the more the body becomes dependent on alcohol. It can cause deadly cirrhosis of the liver and alcohol poisoning — even at her age.”

Rihanna’s world came crashing down earlier this month. She missed an “SNL” final dress rehearsal and needed a shot of penicillin to make it htrough her May 5 performance. And on May 8, she tweeted a picture of her arm hooked up to an intravenous drop, claiming she was suffering from a nasty bout of the flu, a day after attending the Costume Institute Gala in New York. She was reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion and dehydration.

Ratcheting up her stress, she’s coming off a grueling tour last year, and she’s been flying all over the world to promote her film Battleship. Rihanna recoverd from her frightening hospitalization to make it to the May 10 L.A. premiere, but then she alarmed onlookers by skipping dinner, opting to chew gum and drink a lime cocktail instead. Two days later, she was seen partying until 4 a.m. in a New York nightclub.

Sadly, the entertainer, whose father is a former crack addict, appears to be continuing her nonstop pace — blazing a round-the-world party trail since shse started the year knocking back beers and smoking pot during a Hawaiian vacation.

[From Enquirer, print edition, May 28, 2012]

Questionable medical ethics (on the part of those two physicians) aside, I agree that Rihanna needs to slow down in several regards. She needs to take it easy professionally and whittle down her schedule a bit, and she needs to stop boozing so hard. Perhaps she truly seeks to ease the pain associated from her past (?) relationship with Chris Brown, but hardcore drinking is (obviously) not the way to accomplish any long-term healing. As Kaiser also mentioned recently, Rihanna strongly identifies as a Pisces, and (speaking as one myself) that astrological sign tends to have their head in the clouds if left unchecked. It’s probably safe to say that Rihanna really has been drowning her stress and sorrows in too much liquor, and I would suspect that a visit to rehab is in the cards.

Just for the hell of it, here’s a photo from Rihanna’s twitter that she took of herself and her father. If he’s really a former crack addict, then addiction might very well run in the family.

Photos courtesy of WENN and Twitter

Earlier this week, I covered some new photos of Sienna Miller and her baby-daddy, Tom Sturridge. Tom and Sienna were in Portofino, Italy, in the midst of what I assumed was there “babymoon,” or the holiday that many couples have a few months before the baby is born. I still don’t really know when Sienna is due, but I’m still guessing that it’s probably late June or early July. Anyway, what I didn’t notice about these photos is that there seems to be some alcohol in the mix. The header photo I chose is the best shot I could find from our photo agencies – you can see Tom and Sienna seated at a café, and if you look closely, you can spy a wine bottle and TWO glasses on their table. SCANDAL. Well, you guys thought it was a “scandal” when Uma Thurman was drinking wine while pregnant. How do you feel about it when it’s a former party girl like Sienna?

Former party girl Sienna Miller wasn’t about to let a little thing like pregnancy get in the way of enjoying a glass of bubbly. Out for a romantic afternoon with fiancé and dad-to-be Tom Sturridge in Portofino, Italy, the actress was in celebratory spirits as she sipped on a glass of vintage champers.

Of course, a friend insists that Sienna got her doctor’s permission before indulging: “Sienna is European and it’s common there for a pregnant woman to have a glass of wine or champagne,” the pal explains.

Plus, the friend adds that Sienna was careful only to have a few sips. “She’d never do anything to harm her unborn baby.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

Back when we were talking about Uma and preggo wine-drinking, I mentioned my thoughts – basically, I’ve always heard that the odd glass of wine is okay, especially when a woman is in her last trimester. Different doctors say different things, and there is a difference in how American women versus European women see the issue. I really don’t think Sienna is guzzling booze non-stop – I think she just has a glass of wine every now and then, and she probably doesn’t think it’s a big deal. But by all means, judge away. GET HER!

PS… If I had to stare at my baby-daddy’s scrunchie-bun all day, I would need a drink too.

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Here’s a photo of Rihanna at an after party that followed the Met Gala. She’s still wearing her sleek, black Tom Ford gown but has changed up her lipstick, opting for bold red instead of the tasteful nude shade she favored at the Gala itself. Clearly, RiRi can only tolerate the “classy” look for so long, and she probably partied her ass off (more on that in a bit) for several hours. This is a precursor to a few stories, the first of which is Rihanna taking this week’s cover of Star magazine (you can see a thumbnail of the cover itself at Hollywood Life) with a story about her “deadly party binge” habits that have formed in the aftermath of the Chris Brown relationship. Allegedly, Rihanna has been driven to heavy substance abuse (not to mention racist twitpics) because she’s so distressed over Chris’ new tattoo of his girlfriend’s face:

Rihanna’s friends are reportedly very worried that her partying has gotten “out of control.” According to Star, Rihanna reportedly freaked out when Chris Brown got a tattoo of his girlfriend Karrueche Tran’s face on his arm – and you’ll never believe what that caused her to do!

“When Chris got the tattoo,” the source says. “Rihanna freaked out. She’s been obsessed with the thought that he’s going to marry Karrueche and she’ll never be able to get back with him. She’s heartbroken and in a bad place.”

Isn’t that just so sad? A source goes on to say that Rihanna gets tired of just sitting in her hotel room so she goes out and parties late and drinks by herself.

“When people tell her she’s a role model, she goes crazy,” the source says. “She doesn’t want to hear it. If anything, she rebels and goes out and does something even more shocking than the time before.”

The source says that Rihanna posted the photo of herself with a white substance at Coachella, and pretended to be in a lesbian relationship just to rebel.

“Rihanna loves being a bad girl and shocking people,” the source adds. “She says she’s having fun, but it’s clear she’s acting out because she’s in a lot of emotional pain.”

[From Hollywood Life]

It’s difficult to analyze the Star take on Rihanna’s partying until the full story is released in a day or so, but I can fully believe that she’s been on a bender lately. She’s quite enraptured with the idea of “danger” and seems to have a devil-may-care attitude about just about everything. Here’s a particularly troubling vision from a photo (that Rihanna posted on her own Twitter stream) of her own arm (those are her Met Gala talons) with a IV attached:

Rihanna was rushed to hospital after partying at the Met Gala in New York on Monday night.

The You Da One hitmaker tweeted a picture of herself attached to an IV drip in a hospital.

She was suffering from “exhaustion and dehydration,” according to MediaTakeOut.

However, after a brief stay in the undisclosed medical center, she was discharged and allowed to fly back to her home in Los Angeles, arriving in California earlier this morning.

It comes just days after the 24-year-old singer pulled out of a Saturday Night Live rehearsal due to her tiredness.

The star has certainly been burning the candle at both ends in recent months and the new issue of America’s Star magazine claims she is “spiraling out of control.”

“Rihanna loves to party but this past month she’s gotten really out of control,” an insider tells the publication. “She’s been drinking almost everyday and talking about smoking weed a lot too.”

[From Daily Mail]

When I first glimpsed the IV photo, I wasn’t sure where the incident had taken place, and it could’ve happened in her hotel suite. It would be completely possible that Rihanna is prone to dehydration (all that alcohol takes its toll), and perhaps she even has a team to hook her up whenever she feels the need. The Mail story alleges that she was actually in a hospital emergency room though, which sounds like trouble for sure.

Meanwhile, RiRi also let it slip while at the Gala that she’s currently working on her own fashion line. Yes, it will be a very trashy fashion line, but does she really need the cash that badly? I’d like to see Rihanna take a break for awhile. Even if she is rather immature in her social behavior, the girl’s been though a lot — a world tour, filming and promoting Battleship, plus the Chris Brown stuff — over the past few years. She needs some rest before it’s too late. And if these ominous stories are correct, she may need some rehab too.

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