Amy Winehouse and drama go together like peanut butter and jelly. If the jelly were made of crack. And the peanut butter were a pipe. Unfortunately Amy Winehouse and drama also go together really well. To say she chases it would be a massive, massive understatement. Amy thrives on it. I seriously doubt she could exist in a state of calm.

Amy’s husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, is scheduled to be sentenced for his role in an assault and bribery of a bartender. Blake plead guilty over a month and a half ago, but couldn’t be sentenced until all of his accomplices had completed their trials as well. Fielder-Civil’s mother is afraid that he’ll be let out of jail soon (presumably being sentenced to time served) and has begged the judge not to allow her son to be anywhere near his wife. Georgette Fielder-Civil is absolutely convinced Amy led Blake down the dark path, even though pretty much everyone with two brain cells to rub together believes the opposite.

Amy Winehouse’s mother-in-law is speaking out against the troubled singer - and blaming the 24-year-old for her son’s drug problems. “I don’t want him to go straight back to Amy,” Georgette Fielder-Civil told Britain’s News of the World of her incarcerated son, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday. “If he does it could be a death sentence for the two of them.”

Georgette has written a letter urging a judge to keep her son away from his wife. “Giving him and Amy another chance is like putting a gun to Blake’s head while playing Russian Roulette,” she said. But Winehouse’s father, Mitch, has repeatedly blamed his son-in-law for getting Amy into hard drugs. “Everyone knows that — apart from Blake’s mum and dad,” he said.

According to Georgette, her 26-year-old son wants to be Amy’s “savior” and “has every intention to try to stop the drugs.” Blake, mind you, was photographed earlier this month heating what appeared to be drugs in his jail cell and inhaling the fumes through a tube. Amy is “completely unstable,” her mother-in-law said. “Blake is a recovering addict and he’s not strong enough to resist the temptation.”

[From the Daily News]

If nothing else, I admire Mitch Winehouse for being totally open, honest, and upfront about his daughter’s drug addiction. And he’s often said how fearful he is for Amy – not just that she’ll overdose, but that if nothing else she’s killing herself slowly due to her emphysema-like condition. But he’s never denied that Amy has a problem, though he does seem pretty powerless. But generally, you don’t hear him going on about how it’s everyone else’s fault, unless he’s directly responding to the Fielder-Civil family’s accusations that Amy turned Blake onto drugs.

Considering the depth of her denial, I’d guess that Blake’s mom isn’t doing him any favors. If she can’t be real with him, she’s just enabling and excusing his behavior. I absolutely think it’d be a great idea for Amy and Blake to be kept far away from each other. If there were a way to legally make two people divorce against their will, I’d nominate this couple first. But blaming Amy for Blake’s problems is utterly ridiculous, and probably one of those “pot calling the kettle black” situations.

Amy Winehouse is shown out in Camden late Saturday/early Sunday. The photo description reads: “Amy Winehouse went out to the Monarch pub in Camden, arriving at 2.30am and leaving at 5am. On the way home she stopped at the Esso garage grabbed some flowers and ran off.” D-Listed notes that the flowers are probably for Blaaake.

“Actor” and “comedian” (I use both those terms really, really loosely here) Andy Dick has got to have one of the longest, most bizarre rap sheets in all of Hollywood. The Q-list actor was once arrested for mooning people at a McDonald’s; has exposed himself at a Canadian comedy club (to be fair, so have I); was forcibly removed from Jimmy Kimmel Live after he repeatedly groped Ivanka Trump… the list goes on. And those are just a few of the non-drug offenses. I can’t even begin to give the highlights from that section of Dick’s rap sheet.

Now Dick has a few new charges to add to his ever-growing attorney’s fees. And a picture that makes him look just like Sideshow Bob.

Wacked out crazy comedian Andy Dick was arrested early this morning in Murrieta, Calif. on suspicion of drug possession and sexual battery.

Cops busted the 42-year-old Dick just before 2 AM this morning in the parking lot near a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. Dick is still being held, his bail set at $5,000.

Around 1:15 AM this morning cops tell us they responded to a report of a person peeing in the parking lot outside the wing joint, causing a disturbance.

Once there, they stopped a van and found Dick in the passenger seat. He was arrested for allegedly groping a 17-year-old girl’s breasts and pulling her top down.

When he was searched, cops say they found weed and one Xanax in his front pants pocket.

[From TMZ]

I’m pretty sure it’s safe to say that Andy Dick is the sleaziest guy in Hollywood. True, you don’t hear about him as much, so there are definitely guys out there that whose reputations are better known. But when you go through the list – and see how many of his incidents are sexual in nature – it sure makes the guy look pretty damn disgusting. From what I can tell, he hasn’t done much significant time for any of his infractions – though he has said this about his jail experiences:

“…getting arrested isn’t too bad, since I’m a bisexual, I don’t have a problem with angry men having sex.”

[From Wikipedia]

Considering Dick is still in jail on only $5,000 bail, he might want to consider giving a crap about his image and not being such a sleaze bag so he can get some work.

I always surprised myself with my naiveté (though I prefer the term “innocence”) by how disappointed I am with celebrities that I considered “nice” or “good” (i.e. “wholesome”) when they get in trouble for doing something really bad (i.e. arrested for soliciting tranny prostitutes… or something of that nature). On Friday night Barenaked Ladies singer/guitarist Steven Page was arrested for drug possession. I assumed it was the good ‘ol pot, or maybe mushrooms. Some kind of wholesome drug, if you will. Turns out it was for cocaine (i.e. “crack”).

It’s a Barenaked shame. Barenaked Ladies’ singer and guitarist Steven Page was arrested Friday in upstate New York and charged with possession of cocaine, a police spokesman confirmed. According to the Manilus Police Department, the 38-year-old musician and two women were holed up in an apartment in Fayetteville, just outside of Syracuse, at approximately 2 a.m. Friday, when a patrol unit arrived on scene to inspect a nearby car with its driver’s side door left open.

While investigating the “suspicious vehicle,” officers noticed Page and 25-year-old companion Stephanie Ford seated in an apartment kitchen with “an unknown white capsule in front of them.” After confronting the pair, police performed a field test and determined the substance was cocaine.

The two were taken into custody and booked on felony criminal possession of a controlled substance. Ford was also charged with marijuana posession [sic]. The third woman who resided in the apartment, 27-year-old Christine Benedicto, was not present at the time of the others’ arrest. She was booked a few hours later on a misdemeanor pot-posession [sic] count.

[From E! News]

The singer was released after ponying up a $10,000 bond. The band’s website is making it sound like Page is just an completely innocent bystander or something, noting “Steven has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and the validity of the charges against Steven will be strongly contested.” I hate when I’m just chilling in someone’s apartment at two in the morning and there happens to be cocaine there. Come on, who hasn’t had that happen to them a few times? Sounds like a simple case of someone being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Alright enough with the sarcasm. But you know they’re going to write a really, really funny song about this.

Here’s Steven Page with the rest of the Barenaked Ladies performing from their new kids CD “Snack Time” on May 10 at the Borders Books In Oak Brook, IL. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Everyone’s got a tale or two about a bad neighbor. The longer you live somewhere, the greater the odds you’re going to have some sort of feud going on. But imagine your next door neighbor is a notorious drug addict. With mental health issues. They’re probably going to make your life a living hell. Or imagine you’ve got a celebrity living down the street. All the press and drama… it’d be a nightmare.

Unfortunately for a bunch of people living in North London, they’ve got both, in the form of Amy Winehouse. Her neighbors are said to be tired of the constant drama she courts, and are doing their best to get her evicted from her rented home.

Local residents have made a sting of complaints to their local council to get Amy evicted from her rented £700,000 North London flat. One neighbour told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: “She’s nothing but trouble and every night she is partying. If she’s not inviting friends around to live it up she’s starting fights. I’ve already filmed some of the trouble Amy has caused on my video camera and I’ll be handing it over to the council to have a look at. Hopefully something can be done.” If the council deems Amy to be causing too much of a disturbance, her landlord could be forced to throw her out.

[From Welt.de]

My first thought was, “Why in the world is Amy Winehouse still renting?” But I guess she has bigger issues to deal with than poor real estate decisions. Or maybe she’s snorted her earnings away, who knows.

The Daily Mail has an article and photos of Amy being caught with a “mystery substance” up her nose again. The only mystery here is why she’s not in jail for it. Sure it’s allergy season – but I’ve got to say, that doesn’t look like a puddle of Flonase that’s accumulated. Make sure to scroll down and view the Daily Mail’s picture of tiny Amy hiding behind this giant flattened box of Budweiser. All you can see is a bit of beehive and some skinny legs. And if she’s not careful, Amy’s going to end up living inside that box. But at least she knows she’d fit.

Here’s Amy leaving her gig at the Monarch pub last night, with a lampshade and a cardboard box to cover her face. Header image of the classic “mystery substance.” Images thanks to WENN.

Angelina Jolie is starting to get pretty crotchety while waiting for her babies to be born – if you believe In Touch magazine and the Daily Mail. According to staffers at the hospital, Angelina is demanding special food, getting short with the staff, and laying about lazily. Yes, they’re implying a woman pregnant with twins that seem to be about half her total bodyweight is lazy for staying in bed.

Angelina Jolie is growing increasingly grouchy with staff while she waits to give birth to twins in a French hospital, according to a new report. The heavily-pregnant actress has been holed up in the private Lenval hospital in Nice for a week now ahead of her scheduled Caesarean section next Tuesday.

While staff there were amazed by her extreme politeness when she first arrived, Angelina’s mood has darkened over the last few days, American magazine In Touch Weekly has claimed. An insider told the publication: ‘She’s starting to feel that the staff are starstruck and not attentive enough. She’s throwing fits if she rings and they don’t come quick enough.’

Angelina has even insisted she be served salmon for lunch, despite the dish not being on the hospital menu. The source added: ‘And I don’t mean asked - demanded. The food at Lenval isn’t very good - it’s hospital food - and I think she was fed up. A staffer went out and bought some and it was made for her.’

The insider continued: ‘I think she’s in meltdown mode. She’s been getting upset if there’s not enough ice in her glass. ‘She’s not walking around anymore. She doesn’t even take a shower early in the morning. She just stays in bed, talking on her phone, typing on her computer, reading magazines and watching TV.’

[From the Daily Mail]

Well the absolute nerve. To think Angelina doesn’t rise EARLY in the morning to shower. Or walk around enough for the staff. Really, I doubt anyone as pregnant as she is would give a damn what the hospital thought about her. And I’m guessing a lot of women would be pretty cranky at this point. I know they say walking is good for inducing labor, but I’m guessing Angelina is probably supposed to be on bed rest. The “source” frames it as though she’s being lazy and just laying about.

And when you’re in the hospital, please tell me what else you’re supposed to do besides talk on the phone, work on the computer, read magazines, etc? Should she be out mowing their lawn? Perhaps grocery shopping? This whole story really irritates me. I’m sorry that Angelina is being grouchy with the staff, but it also sounds like they’re over analyzing her every move. Luckily it sounds like she’ll be out of there in a relatively short period of time.

Here’s Angelina and Brad at Cannes on May 15th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Jack Black is one crazy mofo. He usually seems like he’s on something, but maybe he’s just high on life and really is that crazy all the time. Either way, he recently made it clear that he’s not using heroin. Thanks to a bad experience after trying the drug one time he adamantly stated that he will never try it again:

“It didn’t agree with me. I couldn’t really feel my legs, and my heart felt like it was slowing down too much. I thought, ‘Oh my God, it’s going to shut me down. I’m going to die.’

“I went down to the 7-Eleven at the bottom of the hill, and I had this strange sensation that my legs were pumping, but the feet were just sort of lifeless stumps. I did a little shopping and then walked back up the hill and survived. And never did it again.”

[Starpulse]

Jack explained that a friend gave him a small amount of heroin and he decided to try it out. He had his old girlfriend with him and asked her to make sure he didn’t die from the experiment. At least he had an insurance policy there to dial 911. The “Tenacious D” front man also admitted to being a “wild teen” and abusing coke while sniffing glue.

Jack and his son’s Godfather, Kyle Gass, are cranking out another album from his mock rock band “Tenacious D,” but it won’t be out for a while. Their 2006 musical adventure, “The Pick of Destiny,” should have a follow up after all. The rumored lead song is titled “Death Star” and could come out in 2010. However, the year of 2012 has also been mentioned as a tentative release date.

“The songs we come up with are so stupid. We’ve got one good song - that’s it. I’m not going to tell you what it’s about, though. I’m afraid someone’s going to steal it!”

[Contact Music]

I don’t know what it is about Black’s shtick that makes him lovable. It is like watching a 9 year old in a 38 year old’s body living out a dream high on Mountain Dew and cotton candy.

Photo credit: Jack Black is shown on 6/26/08 at the Kung Fu Panda UK premiere, thanks to Zibi for WENN.

I think one of the best ways to really keep kids off drugs is to talk to them in their own language. And it’s best when they hear about it from people they’ll actually listen to; people who speak on their level. So who better to warn kids to stay off drugs than Jackass star Steve-O?

Steve has a rap sheet so long I think his Wikipedia page almost exploded when I opened it. He’s struggled with serious drugs and mental illness for years, and in March was physically removed from his home by his friends, who forced him to check into a mental hospital. He’s been there ever sense, and recently wrote on his blog exactly why you shouldn’t do drugs.

After seeing “Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Addiction Special” on VH1 News, I figured it was time to put something out there for you all. I expected my part on that show to be much harder to watch than it wound up being. It made me want to explain a little bit of what I’ve been going through since I got clean, to help some of you understand how much damage drugs and alcohol have really done to me. I’ve now been clean for 115 days, and I’m, again, in a mental institution. I did so much cocaine, ketamine, pcp, nitrous oxide, and all sorts of other drugs, that, quite simply, my brain is fucked up. As you can probably tell by the way I’m writing this, my cognitive skills are alright, but, I frequently suffer from horrible mood swings and severe depression. Those of you who have followed my warped mind’s trail on the Internet for a significant amount of time have, I’m sure, been very aware of those attributes, but, I just want you all to know that four fucking months (almost) of not touching a damn thing that a psychiatrist didn’t perscribe to me hasn’t changed that shit. The medication that is prescribed to me doesn’t do the trick every day, let’s just put it that way. I’m back in the looney bin trying to get that shit right. The bottom line is that doing drugs fucked my ass up and I’m going to be paying for it for a long time, probably for the rest of my life. Everyone’s going to make their own decisions in life, but nobody needs to make the same mistakes I made. I love you all,

[From Steve O’s Myspace blog]

I think that’s really good to hear. A lot of people experiment a bit with drugs and are fine, and that’s the end of the story. But there are always heartbreaking stories like Steve’s where it just ends up ruining a person’s life. I have a friend who has been in and out of mental institutions since high school in a case that sounds pretty similar to this.

Steve obviously has a ton of issues – both medical and mental – to work through. But it sounds like he’s taking them seriously, and hopefully will do whatever work needs to be done to get better.

Here’s Steve O at Maxim’s 2008 Hot 100 party in Los Angeles on May 21st. I’m assuming he’s either been in and out of the mental hospital and happened to be out that day, or he got some kind of… day pass? Photographer: Dimitri Halkidis; Images thanks to WENN.

It’s no big surprise to say that Amy Winehouse’s lazy, loser, do-nothing jailbird husband (did I use enough adjectives to accurately convey how I really feel here?) has been doing drugs in prison. Despite his claims that he’s clean (and odd reports that he’s tested clean), photographs just emerged of Blake using heroin in jail. Which isn’t likely to help him during his upcoming sentencing for a myriad of criminal offenses.

Junkie Blake Fielder-Civil takes heroin in his prison cell hours before wife Amy Winehouse begs for his release. Our exclusive pictures show him heating the drug on foil before inhaling fumes through a tube – known to addicts as “chasing the dragon”. The skinny and pale lag, who had claimed to be off drugs, is also seen squatting on his cell toilet as he prepares his stash.

Blake, 25, took his fix in London’s Pentonville Prison hours before singer Amy’s pleas for his freedom during her shows at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert and Glastonbury. The lout – who we revealed has been writing sleazy sex letters to a female lag behind Amy’s back – will be sentenced on Thursday for perverting justice and GBH. In January, The Sun exposed a video of Amy, 24, smoking a crack pipe in her flat after taking a cocktail of other drugs.

A Pentonville source said: “Blake takes heroin whenever he can get hold of it. His claims to be clean are a fallacy and it is obvious he remains dependent. There is nothing to suggest he won’t carry on when he’s outside and back with Amy. If she takes him back into her life when she is trying to get clean it will be a recipe for disaster.”

Blake had claimed in letters to lag Melissa Goldstone that he was not taking drugs – but planned to get high when he got out of prison. He also revealed sordid fantasies of what he wanted to do to her, and claimed Amy would like a threesome.

[From the Sun]

We can’t post the pictures here but you can see them on the Sun’s website above. I can’t imagine that this will help him with any kind of clemency with the judge.

In other Winehouse news, Amy is once again dating another guy - all the while insisting her marriage is in great shape. She went out with him (and six bodyguards) to a bar on Saturday night. Always a good choice Amy. Wino has also attacked another fan. She used to be known for being super open and friendly with the public, even when people would show up at her front door for autographs. I’m guessing she’s experiencing some sort of paranoia or something as a result of all the drug use.

Amy, 24, threw a punch at the man as he tried to take her photo. A source said: “Amy had her bottom pinched and blamed the fan taking her picture.

“She just lashed out and clumped him. He laughed it off.” Amy struck out as she arrived at her flat in Camden, North London, late on Saturday.

[From the Sun]

Really, this isn’t the worst thing Wino’s ever done. But she’s managed to keep a pretty strong fan base in spite of all of her issues. If she continues to alienate them, she could lose what little job security she has.

Here’s Amy with the mystery guy on Saturday night. Images thanks to Splash. Amy was being guarded by six bouncers as she was seen with a pack of cards playing solitaire inside Camden’s Marathon bar that night (photographer: Owen Beiny); Images thanks to WENN.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is now the highest paid writer in Hollywood. He recently signed a $100 million deal for his work on the show, and apparently with increased money comes an increased sense of responsibility. MacFarlane says he’s swearing off pot because of some bad experiences he’s had recently.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has vowed to stop smoking marijuana because it makes him too paranoid.

MacFarlane signed a $100 million deal with 20th Century Fox in May, in a move which will make him the highest-paid writer-producer in television - and he’s determined to increase his productivity by swearing off illegal drugs.

He says, “I don’t smoke much pot anymore. One of the last times I was stoned, I was convinced that I would die unless I kept moving my body. So I sat there, baked, waving my arms around like a crazy person.”

[From Starpulse]

I’m guessing the voice of Stewie came to him while he was high. No way could a totally sober person think up an evil talking baby with an erudite, quasi-British accent. That’s like when my English teacher tried to convince me Lewis Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland without ever touching a drug. Nice try, but I’m not quite that dumb.

I’ve heard some stories of the bad trips that caused people to stop whatever drug(s) they were into. I’ve got to say, moving your body a lot certainly isn’t the worst of it. But more power to him.

Here’s Seth MacFarlane at the ‘Family Guy’ 100th episode party at Social Hollywood on October 29th. Michael Del Monte; Images thanks to WENN.

The on-again, off-again boyfriend of Samantha Who actress Christina Applegate has been found dead in his apartment. 26-year-old Lee Grivas apparently died of a drug overdose, though official autopsy results haven’t been released yet. Applegate had been dating Grivas for over two years.

Some very sad news for Christina Applegate. E! News has confirmed that an investigation is under way into the circumstances surrounding the death of 26-year-old Lee Grivas, an aspiring photographer who had been dating the Samantha Who? star off and on for more than two years.

“I am profoundly saddened,” Applegate said in a statement to E! News. “Lee was an incredible human being who was an extremely important and beautiful part of my life. He is missed beyond words. He touched so many and I feel much sadness for his mother, brother and all of his family and friends.”

“We’re very happy with each other,” Grivas, told People in 2006. “I like making her smile and she likes making me smile. It’s really innocent and fun.”

[From E! News]

The National Enquirer says that Grivas’ body was found by his neighbor on Tuesday and he was pronounced dead early that evening. They have a little additional information on Grivas’ life and death.

Lee Grivas, was found dead of an apparent heroin overdose. Grivas — a fisherman, skateboarder and aspiring photographer — died July 1. A source close to Grivas told The National Enquirer: “Lee also had a long history of drug problems, dating back to his teen years. Christina broke up with him a number of times because of his struggles with getting clean. She loved him, but couldn’t stand by and watch him ruin his life.”

After the lovers reunited in April, Grivas left Christina in a last-ditch bid to get sober, according to the source. “Christina loved Lee dearly and even dreamed of starting a family with him,” the insider told The National Enquirer. “Unfortunately, Lee’s battle with drugs got the better of him. Christina is still in complete shock. He was just so young!”

[From the National Enquirer]

What an incredibly sad story. Our hearts go out to Lee’s friends and family.

Here are Christina Applegate and Lee Grivas leaving the Petrossian Paris Boutique & Cafe in Los Angeles while Christina hides under a black sweatshirt on April 23rd. Images thanks to WENN.