Earlier this month, footage came out on Toddlers and Tiaras of six year-old pageant contestant, Alana Holler, aka “Honey Boo Boo Child,” sipping an unknown beverage that her mom called “Go Go Juice” to rev up for competition. (A video of that is below.) The mom explained that she tried to use Pixy Stix, known as “pageant crack,” with Alana but that it didn’t work to give her enough energy to perform. The situation looked more abusive than typical pageant prep in that a child was potentially drinking something spiked. Later the mom defended herself by using the old “it could be worse” argument. Mom June Holler said “I didn’t do anything to hurt her. There are far worse things that I can do to my kid.” She went on to say she basically didn’t care what people said about her, which is obviously true if she’s pushing her child into pageants in the first place.

Well June and little Alana went on the Dr. Drew show, and discussed the controversial issue of the “Go Go Juice.” They brought some along for Dr. Drew to try and he acted like he was affected by it, but he was obviously playing it up. He claimed that his tongue felt thick, he felt hot, and said he was “starting to lose it.”

Little Alana and her mom explained that the Go Go Juice was “energy drink and a caffeine drink.” When I first saw the clip from Toddlers & Tiaras I thought the girl was just drinking Mountain Dew, but it’s really Mountain Dew and Red Bull. Can you imagine giving that to your kid? I saw an episode of Dr. Oz where they talked about the dangers of drinking too much Red Bull, which can be addicting and harmful to your health. This lady is giving Red Bull to her kid all the time. Mom of the freaking year.

Dr. Drew is such a hack that he regularly armchair diagnoses celebrities with addictions and other problems based on interviews they’ve given. For instance he questioned Angelina Jolie’s charity work and wondered whether she was still on drugs after she admitted that she’d done heroin in her youth. He also called out Brad Pitt for admitting that he used to smoke pot, also in his past, and for moving his kids with Angie around while they’re working. (Kaiser did a recap of some of Dr. Drew’s nonsense here.) In this latest case, though, I’m rooting for Dr. Drew and I almost agree with him.

On the last episode of Kim & Kourtney go to New York so they can have a spin-off, Kim moves to punch Kris Humphries after the big oaf steps on her toe and breaks her pedicured nail. Kris of course quickly deflects Kim’s blow since he’s a giant basketball player. It looks like Kim was seriously going for him, and like she could have caused some damage if she landed that punch. Dr. Drew got all incensed about it and says it’s a clear incident of domestic violence and that domestic violence goes both ways, meaning women can commit it against men. He also said that stuff like this can escalate into a more dangerous, abusive situation. Go Dr. Drew?

Holy matrimony took an unholy turn back in October, when news broke that reality television star Kim Kardashian filed a disclaimer of interest — wait, no, I meant a petition for divorce from New Jersey Nets free agent forward Kris Humphries.

Their marriage lasted 72 days, just enough time to get footage for Kardashian’s new E! television series, Kourtney & Kim Take New York. The series debuted on Monday and featured startling footage of Kardashian winding up to punch Humphries for “accidentally breaking her toenail,” according to TheImproper.com.

Kardashian appears to be smiling while throwing the punch and Humphries doesn’t exactly cower in fear, but psychologist Dr. Drew Pinsky opined on CNN that the punch amounted to domestic violence.

“What you are seeing there is domestic violence,” Pinsky told viewers. “A lot of people watching this may not understand that and I get that. It looks playful. What’s the big deal? It is a massive deal.”

Pinsky continued: “Kris and Kim, listen, they’re separating and that’s over with, this doesn’t need to be reported or anything. But anybody listening at home or viewing this has to understand the spectrum of domestic violence. And this is an incontrovertible piece of evidence of someone who is engaged in a domestic violence relationship.”

[From CBS Sports]

So for all the times that Kris calls Kim “fat” or acts like a dick or accidentally steps on her, Kim is behaving even worse by lashing out at him physically. Even if Kim’s punch was delivered with a smirk, it’s still domestic violence according to Dr. Drew. I don’t think she was joking, she looked serious about hitting him. It’s a hard call for me to make since I don’t like either one of them and don’t particularly give a sh*t, but young teens watch this show and they should know that’s not acceptable.

In other Dr. Drew news, it looks like he’s softening his stance against drugs. Or maybe he just bases it on whether he likes the celebrity or not. On the whole Miley Cyrus “I’m a stoner” Bob Marley birthday cake controversy, Dr. Drew said she’s not an addict. He told Extra “I don’t think it’s that big of a deal… Real marijuana addicts don’t quite talk like that. I don’t think we have somebody who has a drug problem on our hands.” Uh huh. When that Miley smoking “salvia” video came out in December of last year, Dr. Drew said “This is a child who is in trouble and who is suffering and this is her way of trying to manage that. Get professional help.” I bet Miley or someone close to her reached out to him after that, so during her next crisis Drew would be on her side. It worked. Now the Kardashians have to kiss his butt so he’ll call their dysfunctional squabbles no “big deal.”

Look at Kim serving up food at the LA Mission. Jennifer Love Hewitt does this every single year. Credit: WENN

Courtney gets a boob ultrasound. Check out the guy at :45!

Courtney Stodden, the now 17 year-old bride, has insisted that her comically oversized breasts are “rill,” and that she hasn’t had any other plastic surgery. It’s pretty obvious from looking at photos of her as a younger teen that she’s had at least a nose job and maybe an eye lift, along with some significant help with her breasts. Courtney is on the Dr. Drew “Lifechangers” show today with her creepy as hell 51 year-old dad husband to “prove” that she hasn’t had any work done. Courtney got a sonogram of her boobs while being taped in front a live, disgusted studio audience. She pursed and licked her lips repeatedly, wearing in a little robe and stripper heels before laying down on the examination table to show that she didn’t have implants. Thankfully, she was covered by a towel although you know she would have preferred to have been hanging out for all to see.

In the clips available on Dr. Drew’s website and TooFab, we get to see Courtney get a sonogram but there’s not final word on whether they found implants. For that you’ll have to tune in to the show today. It’s possible that like Kim Kardshian’s ass she doesn’t have “implants,” but that doesn’t prove much. There’s a procedure involving fat transfer to the breasts that can achieve similar results. The part where the plastic surgeon judges Courtney’s face to see if she’s had work done to it is also cut off before we get to his verdict. He’ll probably say she’s all natural, as she’s insisted. All you have to do is look at old photos of her to see that something is not right with that girl.

Courtney and Doug also share some really inappropriate photos of them at home, romping on the bed while Courtney is of course half dressed. Later Doug defends their love and Courtney explains that they got married because “if we dated, he could get put in jail.” Exactly.

It’s really hard to look away from this train wreck, but I’m still hoping these two don’t score a reality show contract. We know they’re shopping one.

Surgeon examines Courtney’s face.

Doug defends their love. “Why is it wrong or why is it offensive?”

Doug and Courtney share home photos.

Credit to TooFab for that photo above.

Doug Hutchison, 51, and his 17 year-old bride Courtney Stodden shot a segment for Dr. Drew’s groundbreaking show Life Changers, where they discussed their recent ousting from a pumpkin patch. If you haven’t seen the photos yet, they’re here and they will bring the vom to your throat. Anderson Cooper did a hilarious send up of these photos a couple of days ago, in which he mocked her facial expressions and addressed Stodden’s “Halloween Haters.” According to Doug and Courtney, only a handful of moms had a problem with Courtney straddling Doug and sucking face with him at the pumpkin patch while wearing booty shorts, hooker boots and a half top. All the dads and the kids loved her, and some thought she was a slutty pumpkin patch mascot.

n a new interview with Dr. Drew’s show Lifechangers, the Teen Bride and her 51-year-old husband Doug Hutchison defended their visit to the pumpkin patch where she was thrown out for being “too sexy.”

“Courtney was dressed in sort of a Daisy Duke like thing,” Doug told Dr. Drew, and his 17-year-old bride said that it was the moms that didn’t want her there.

“The women were coming up to the manager complaining, because of the kids,” Courtney said in the clip obtained by RadarOnline.com, while dressed in a super sexy hot pink dress that showed off her ample cleavage.

“The dads loved it!” she said about her risqué outfit.

“There were a lot of people there who were enjoying it,” Doug said. “One dad told his little daughter ‘oh look honey they have a pumpkin patch girl this year.’”

Courtney agreed, and said she was the “Pumpkin Patch Princess!”

Courtney and Doug will go into more details about the pumpkin patch incident, along with their unconventional relationship, to Dr. Drew on Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers airing Monday, Nov. 7 at 3:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.

[From Radar]

The Dr. Drew people sent us this story in an e-mail and I read it while waiting in the pickup line for my kid at school. I was just sitting alone in my car laughing my ass off, and that was before I even saw the video of this interview. These people are absurd.

The Soup did a hilarious send up of Courtney’s tweets this week with two people acting the part of Doug and Courtney recreating the “recipes” she’d shared on Twitter. I can’t find any clips of this online yet, but here’s a link to an earlier segment they did with a Courtney lookalike.

Janice Dickinson is 56 years old. Compare these photos with that post that I did the other day on 53-year-old Sharon Stone. Any reasonable person would expect a pair of 50-something to look roughly (emphasis on “ROUGH”) the same, age-wise. But while Sharon Stone either seems to be aging naturally or she’s only gotten a few modest things done, Janice Dickinson is balls-out gross-looking in these new photos from last night. What’s strange to me is that I really think Janice goes in and consults doctors to maintain this sketchy look. I feel like the Botox is building up in Janice’s face. I feel like it’s trying to leak out of her eyes, out of her pores.

By the way, Janice has hopped on the Amy Winehouse bandwagon. Janice gave a recent interview where she claimed that she had befriended Amy shortly before her death: “She was desperate and her life had become suddenly unmanageable and she wanted to see if I could help her.” By the way, THAT is how you know Winehouse was in trouble – she was reaching out to JANICE.

So of course Dr. Drew had to insert himself into the situation too. He claims, “Believe it or not she was trying to contact me which was weird. Janice Dickinson told me that. I remember getting calls from Europe and thinking, ‘What the hell is this?’ Janice Dickinson, several times on my HLN program, claimed that she gave Amy my number, and that she was reaching out.” For God’s sake. Well, Janice and Dr. Drew, it’s your word against a dead girl’s, so I guess you bitches win.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

The “16 and Pregnant” abortion special, “No Easy Decision,” will air tonight on MTV at 11:30 pm EST. As we’ve heard, it follows 19 year-old castmember Markai Durham as she makes the choice to abort her second pregnancy. Durham claims that her second pregnancy was a legitimate accident when she forgot to get a follow-up birth control shot and didn’t realize that she needed another one at that point. She has a Facebook page administered by a friend through which she’s been discussing the special and defending herself. MTV has supposedly barred Durham from doing interviews ahead of the special, and The NY Post reports that the show has not been released to the press ahead of the air date. Pro-life groups are upset at something they perceive will glorify abortion.

MTV — first accused of glamorizing teen pregnancy with “16 and Pregnant” — is now facing charges it’s promoting abortion with a controversial new show airing tonight.

On the show, Markai Durham, who was first seen last month on “16 and Pregnant,” discovers she is expecting again and must decide whether to have the baby.

Her decision to terminate the pregnancy is the centerpiece of “No Easy Decision” and has pro-lifers up in arms.
The show is so unusual, MTV scheduled it to air at 11:30 p.m. — well past the bedtimes of the network’s youngest fans.

TV did not make the show available to the media before it airs and has forbidden Markai to give interviews about the subject.

Still, in social media postings, the 19-year-old Florida girl has been preparing fans for the intense drama.

“I get sad from time to time thinking about it but then everything happens for a reason,” she wrote. “God gave me 3 paths to take abortion, adoption, or raising this baby along with another.

“I chose this path and I think about how stressing things would have been if I haven’t made the one I’ve made.”

Markai, who gave birth to daughter Za’karia in October 2009, has been seeing a therapist to cope with her feelings, and spent the past week answering questions about her decision on Formspring.com, where other “16 and Pregnant” alums connect with their fans.

In a posting Christmas Eve, the teen, who admits that, in the past, she abused drugs and slept with “different men every other night,” says she and boyfriend James were using birth control when the second pregnancy occurred.

“I just never knew it ran out,” she wrote. “They give you a time limit to get the shot again. [It's] like days-days, so I thought I had time. I guess not.”

In recent months, MTV has promised to tackle “all sides” of the hot-button teen pregnancy issue.

But pro-life blogger Jill Stanek says she expects a one-sided portrayal.

“This apparently means the pro-life perspective will simply get tackled,” she writes, noting that the official Web site only links to pro-choice groups, including the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

Stanek also points out that the show was done in cooperation with Exhale, a support group for teens who have had abortions.

“Anytime anyone can help tell stories about women who have had abortions, we see that as a good thing,” says Erica Johnson, an Exhale counselor.

Markai’s story “is very much in line with the stories we hear on our talk line. A large number of women who have abortions already have children.

“They are wanting to do the best thing for the children they have and they really struggle with whether they can do it a second or third time.”

“She didn’t expect to be ridiculed and put down about it so much,” Markai’s Facebook page administrator writes.

[From The NY Post]

I’m going to say basically the same thing about this that I said in our last story. I have no problem with abortion. I do have a problem with MTV exploiting these young girls for television. As many of you point out in our stories on Amber’s abuse of Gary – why didn’t someone filming her abuse step in? She slapped and choked the guy in front of a camera crew equipped with lights and gear. There had to be a few people there and no one stopped Amber on three separate occasions or even made the executive decision not to air that footage!

So now there’s a girl who had to get an abortion and MTV is going to put her out there for people to talk about and debate over. I don’t think she’s prepared for this, and this story bothers me for an entirely different reason other than the abortion issue.

Yesterday, the Huffington Post published excerpts from a larger interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky. Dr. Drew talked smack about Brangelina, Eva Longoria, Scarlett Johansson, and several other celebrities. I considered the entire interview to be pretty disgusting coming from an alleged medical professional, and I thought (as I continue to think) that Dr. Drew has been whoring himself out for his stab at fame, just be giving salacious quotes about random celebrities. Anyway, Dr. Drew might have realized that he left himself wide open to a series of lawsuits, because he’s now trying to roll back some of his comments. Specifically, the stuff about Brangelina.

Dr. Drew Pinksy is making a public apology to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in an RadarOnline.com exclusive video interview amid reports he said the superstar pair was headed toward a nuclear split.

“These comments were taken completely out of context (and) they were never meant to be printed,” said the Celebrity Rehab host, who does not treat the celebrity couple.
“I do not know Brad or Angelina (and) I certainly don’t want to be saying things that could be perceived as hurtful for them, or harmful for them in any way.

“I’m deeply concerned and apologetic and apologize for these comments that were taken out of context.”

Dr. Drew, a board certified addiction specialist, reportedly said Brangelina were on a one-way road toward splits-ville, in part because of Jolie’s past addiction to heroin.

He was quoted as saying, “Just add up a couple things… there’s no such thing as ‘I was a heroin addict’. That doesn’t exist in nature. Something is going on with [her] addiction. Or she’s in recovery (and) I don’t see any evidence that’s the case.”

He reportedly said when Brad and Angelina were put together, it was “a really volatile situation” and the pair was “constantly creating things to weld themselves together”.

However, speaking exclusively to RadarOnline.com, Dr. Drew said he talking in a hypothetical exercise in which he used Pitt and Jolie merely as examples.

“Categorically these comments were not supposed to be in the public discourse,” he said.
“I don’t know these people, I don’t know the facts. Literally as though one was speculating, just going through an exercise of speculation and not some sort of analysis that was supposed to be factual or for public discourse… I could not be more upset and disturbed that these things were printed as though I was making some sort of categorical analysis of people I really don’t know.”

Dr. Drew, the long-time host of radio’s Loveline and of the VH1 shows Sex Rehab and Sober House, also had a direct message for the high-profile pair.

“I wish them the best, I hope they do well, enjoy the holidays with their kids and have a nice time. I wish them no ill, believe me… I’m sorry these comments were taken out of context and made public,” he added.

[From Radar]

Eh. I might take Dr. Drew’s word that his comments were in no way designed to get him more publicity, if not for the fact that he’s said similar crap about Angelina Jolie before. Plus, he has a history of saying nasty stuff about whoever is getting more press than him anyway. I also find it interesting that he’s only really apologizing for the Brangelina stuff – he talked about many celebrities in that interview, so I guess he’s not doing “takesies-backsies” on all of it. So… do you buy Dr. Drew’s “apology”? Eh.

Given the popularity of MTV reality shows 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, this latest addition seems kind of inevitable. They’re going to air a special focusing on one the 16 and Pregnant girls who is pregnant for the second time and considering abortion. They’ll also talk to other teens who had abortions, with Dr. Drew Pinsky giving them his unique brand of superficial famewhore counseling.

After documenting dozens of teen mothers’ heart-wrenching stories via its hit 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom series, MTV will tackle the sensitive issue of abortion with a separate special called No Easy Decision, EW has learned exclusively. The special, airing Dec. 28 at 11:30 p.m., will follow one former 16 and Pregnant subject, Markai, as she wrestles with the decision after becoming pregnant for a second time. Dr. Drew Pinsky will also talk with young women who, like 27 percent of teens who end up with unplanned pregnancies, have chosen to end them. MTV sources say the documentary will tackle all sides of the issue, including the importance of contraception and the devastating effects of facing such a decision.

[From EW via ONTD]

My gut reaction to this is “no.” I’m pro-choice and it’s not about the abortion issue at all. I just feel that MTV should give these type of shows a rest. Yes they’re chronicling a very common phenomenon and attempting to make teen pregnancy into a teachable moment. At the same time, they’re creating young stars out of these mothers. Even if teen pregnancy, abortion, adoption and raising babies are shown as incredibly difficult and undesirable (and having watched Teen Mom I can say that they are portrayed that way), the very nature of these shows belies their supposed message. It’s like “don’t have unprotected sex” and “don’t get pregnant,” but if you do you have a chance of getting on MTV and becoming famous. This 16 year-old girl, Markai, earned a whole spinoff special by getting pregnant again. We’ve seen these girls on tabloid covers for the past year and now they’re pulling stunts to extend their fifteen minutes. This is about ratings for MTV, not about highlighting a social issue.

Here’s a 16 and Pregnant trailer for the most recent season. Markai fights with her boyfriend at around 1:20. She hits him and says “I hate you” [via Starcasm]. You can watch Markai’s 16 and Pregnant episode on MTV.com if you’re in the US.

Here’s my biggest problem with Dr. Drew: he’s a whore. Specifically, he whores out his medical degree and uses it as a cudgel to talk smack about celebrities. Now, I talk smack about celebrities too – we all do. You wouldn’t be here unless you talked smack about celebrities. If Dr. Drew was just some dude on the street, talking smack, he would be just another dude with an opinion. But Dr. Drew gives his opinions with the air of a “professional” and a “knowledgeable expert” on psychology and celebrity culture, granting interviews about the supposed diseases, addictions and disorders various celebrities “suffer” from by his armchair diagnosis. Also: he believes everything he reads in the tabloids, which is just weird. Like, it’s as if he reads some quote that In Touch Weekly’s unnamed source attributes to Angelina Jolie, and then Dr. Drew bases his entire “diagnosis” of Jolie on that quote. And don’t even get me started on how he whores himself out for fame and celebrity on Celebrity Rehab. It’s all… pretty disgusting. Anyway, Dr. Drew has given a new interview to The Huffington Post, and they ask him about various celebrities. His answers are horrible:

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are headed for an epic breakup. The recently-separated Eva Longoria has a classic case of love addiction. Miley Cyrus is acting out right now because of her parents’ divorce. And today’s laissez-faire attitude toward divorce is “bullshit.”

Yep, the doctor is definitely in.

Dr. Drew Pinsky, the long-time host of radio’s “Loveline” and of the VH1 shows “Celebrity Rehab,” “Sex Rehab,” and “Sober House” shared these and other revelations with us at Milk Studios in Hollywood last week, where he was shooting promos for his upcoming HLN talk show “Dr. Drew,” in which he’ll tackle these themes and many more nightly in-studio during prime time starting in the spring.

Below, some highlights:

On Brad and Angelina:
Just add up a couple things. There’s no such thing as ‘I was a heroin addict.’ That doesn’t exist in nature. Something is going on with [her] addiction. Or she’s in recovery. And I don’t see any evidence that’s the case. So we’ve got one person who’s a heroin addict. Which is a chronic lifelong condition, period. We have another person who has said things like, “Well, Jennifer [Aniston] was into long-term relationships, that’s just her way of looking at things.” I mean, that demeaning attitude towards other people’s emotions. Now put those two people together and you have got a really volatile situation. And they’re constantly creating things to weld themselves together. Which is only going to serve to make a more nuclear eruption. There will be some sort of meltdown that will be phenomenal when it does happen.

On Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s split:
This guy is trying to have a marriage … and he starts acting out [sexually] like that? I don’t have to watch too many episodes of [VH1's "Basketball Wives"] to know what’s going on. Now, why didn’t Eva know about that? Talk about love addiction.

On the role of sex and love addiction in divorce:
Love addicts and sex addicts tend to go together. Love addicts are often people who were severely abandoned. And they tend to idealize people. It’s sort of romantic love gone pathological. The kind of person [they'll] idealize will necessarily be the kind of person who will abandon them. If that person suddenly comes around and forms a closeness, the love addict will sabotage the relationship.

On why maintaining marriages can be harder as a celebrity:
Relationships need a lot of care and attention. If you have two people disregarding the care and attention of the relationship, you’re going to have a problem. And then also add to that, they are being put on what are essentially sensory deprivation chambers–movie sets–and asked to evoke powerful feelings with attractive people. I mean, hello.

On why Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson didn’t last:
I don’t know what that was … I’ve known Ryan for a long time. He’s a nice guy. He seems like someone who should have a healthy relationship.

On why Miley Cyrus is acting out:
Can you imagine the pain that Miley is in? Her mom just had an affair. Her parents are breaking up … She’s in trouble right now. She’s manifesting signs of mental health problems, as well she should, right? It’s a teenager in trouble because of problems.

On Kelsey Grammer, who recently announced his engagement to his fourth wife:
I don’t know what to do with Kelsey. I need to know him a little better. But when you see serial re-marriers it’s usually more people of Larry King’s generation. And their thing was, they didn’t have sex unless they were married. I can’t make sense of it.

On why he can’t stand today’s lax attitude toward divorce:
We have gone through a 30-year period where terribly unhealthy things that contribute to unhappiness have been normalized as ‘just another choice,’ just another way of doing things, when in fact that’s bullshit. Divorce is an extremely unhappy, extremely stressful, extremely problematic thing. Thank god it’s an option for some people. But…it impacts people’s mental health. The least it does it create problems around intimacy until the fourth decade of life. It tends to normalize after that. But it takes people to their 30s or 40s to, under the best of situations, to expunge the experience. That’s a lot of suffering. And that’s often a lot of failed relationships and other failed relationships and more children exposed to divorce. The problem with divorce is that people consider it an option. You just shouldn’t consider it an option unless it’s absolutely necessary.

On why we find reading about divorce stories so fascinating:
Humans are interested in drama. Drama is not healthy people acting healthy. That’s boring. And divorces are dramas. Divorces are painful. Our attention goes to humans in pain, so that’s what that is.

[From Huffington Post]

Let’s see… okay, Angelina Brad has never said “Jennifer [Aniston] was into long-term relationships, that’s just her way of looking at things.” Also, Eva Longoria is not a “love addict,” she’s a famewhore who prioritized her celebrity over her marriage. And why does everything have to be an “addiction” anyway? Why can’t it just be “I’m not a sex addict, I was just dumb, and I like to bone beautiful women” and “It’s not love addiction, I’d just rather stay married to this person because the divorce would cost too much”? Oh, and Dr. Drew has known Ryan Reynolds for a long time? Riiight. And the insinuation is that ScarJo is to blame for the split, of course, not that Ryan is a massive tool. Of course. I could go on and on, but really, why are we still listening to Dr. Drew?

Last week, I saw the story that Julia Roberts’ older brother Eric Roberts had joined the “cast” of Celebrity Rehab, but I didn’t think that much of it. Honestly, I’ve heard the rumors about Eric and his addictions, and I thought it was just more of the same. But I was wrong! It turns out that Eric isn’t addicted to crack or heroin or even tequila… no, Eric likes the chronic. He’s been tweeting (he’s on Twitter?!?) about his addiction to medical marijuana:

Eric Roberts checked into ‘Celebrity Rehab’ last week. His wife, Eliza, told E! that he would be treated for his addiction to medical marijuana.

“Eric quit drugs and alcohol in 1995,” Eliza said. “He has no interest in anything, other than marijuana.”

Eric, who is Julia Roberts’ brother and Emma’s dad, reportedly has a prescription for marijuana to treat his anxiety but wants to kick his dependency on it.

“Tweating By Remote to answer y I’m doing CELEBRITY REHAB . It’s not 2 get people 2 stop asking y I’m doing Y&R as some have proposed. LOL,” he tweeted Tuesday.

Eric made his debut on ‘The Young and the Restless’ a couple of weeks ago. His next project: moving out of the weed garden and in with troubled roommate Jeremy London.

“I’d like to move out of the weed garden & into a place where things can blossom & grow. The people @ #CelebRehab have been fantastic 1 & all,” he tweeted.

[From HuffPo]

Maybe I’m not down with all of the hip stuff, but I’ve always doubted people’s claims that marijuana is addictive, or that a person can be a pot addict. I used to smoke up quite a bit (in my youth), and while I had some good times, I just didn’t understand how someone could be “addicted” to that feeling. Maybe I’m just close-minded about it. Or maybe Eric Roberts just likes to get high, and he’s not really “addicted”.

In other Celebrity Rehab news, Rachel Uchitel (“The Pillhead/Love Addict”) has already tried to quit the show because she found Dr. Drew to be too hardcore:

Rachel Uchitel told producers “I quit” and ran away from the set of Celebrity Rehab 4 — ditching the show for a swanky hotel after an intense day of filming drove her over the edge, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

“After a very intense day of filming, Rachel just couldn’t handle being at the Pasadena Recovery Center where Celebrity Rehab is filmed, and she decided to leave,” a source told us.

Tiger Woods’ former Number 1 mistress bolted for the swanky L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills, RadarOnline.com exclusively learned. Her escape from rehab was prompted by a very intense day with Dr. Drew, and Rachel had trouble coping with the issues that were discussed, according to the source.

As RadarOnline.com reported exclusively Rachel is being treated for a problem with alcohol and an addiction to pills. She was discussing her issues with self-esteem and self-worth, along with her addiction to pills when she went over the edge and bolted the set for the L’Ermitage Hotel. Rachel told Dr. Drew that and producers that she was quitting the show, and she left, the source told RadarOnline.com. Producers of Celebrity Rehab 4 located Uchitel and went to talk to her the next morning. “Producers arrived at the hotel the following morning, and calm prevailed. Rachel simply needed some time away from the intense pressure and scrutiny that she is dealing with.

“She agreed to go back to Celebrity Rehab 4. Rachel has never had to face these issues before, and talking about it pushed her over the edge, and her instinct was to run. Producers made her realize that if she continues to run away from her issues, she will never be able to live a healthy life,” a VH-1 insider tells us.

Rachel isn’t legally allowed to talk about Tiger Woods, but he looms large in her life.

“Her issues go beyond Tiger, but he was the catalyst that pushed her over the edge,” a source tells us.

As we previously reported, VH-1 execs are so impressed with the footage that has been shot so far that a push is being made for the show to premiere sooner than the scheduled October date.

[From Radar]

Sigh… I’m so glad I don’t watch this show, I really am. That being said, if Rachel does end up talking about Tiger Woods or David Boreanaz, I will gladly cover it. F-cking pillhead.