White House Party Crasher and all around grifter Michaele Salahi was cast on Celebrity Rehab this season, along with such luminaries as Michael Lohan, Bai Ling and Dwight Gooden. It’s known that Michael Lohan is supposedly sober, as he’s some kind of sanctimonious preachy sobriety coach for teenagers when he’s not giving press conferences about his daughter. Lohan admitted as much when he was cast, and said that he was hoping to get treatment for his “anger issues.” It was Michaele Salahi who just got kicked off for not being addicted to anything, though. Like the e-mail “evidence” that the Salahis gave to “prove” they were invited to the state dinner, her husband Tareq swears he has e-mails that show that producers wanted Michaele to fake an addiction. (At least that’s what he implied.)
But that’s apparently why former Real Housewives of D.C. matron Michaele Salahi was more or less fired by Dr. Drew Pinsky today.
“The treatment program that Celebrity Rehab documents is intended for individuals with serious substance abuse and addiction issues,” VH1 said in a statement to E! News. “Prior to the taping of the current season, producers were advised that Michaele Salahi met the criteria to be treated in this setting. However, professional assessments spanning from that time to the present, found that she did not meet such criteria.
“As a result, she is no longer participating in the program.”
A rep for Salahi said yesterday that the self-proclaimed philanthropist, who didn’t appear to suffer from addiction during Real Housewives, was hoping Dr. Drew would “be able to assist her about everything she has endured over the last year.”
Salahi revealed in September that she suffers from multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease that attacks nerve cells around the brain and spinal cord.
Dr. Drew did a full medical workup on Salahi and she is doing fine, a production source told Radar Online. But apparently she and her husband are pretty pissed!
“She was really leaning on Dr. Drew, who is a respected doctor to get her through some of the issues after the White House, when she went to Congress, when she went into relapse with her multiple sclerosis,” Tareq Salahi told Radar.
“My wife takes her health situation very seriously, she has a real diagnosis of multiple sclerosis,” he continued. “You know, we can show you a bunch of emails about what they wanted her to pretend to be, therefore, but that’s going to come out later on with one of the major networks.”
[From E! Online]
A chronic illness and an inability to tell the truth do not constitute an addiction. (An inability to eat full meals might, however.) Then again, from what I understand the Celebrity Rehab model of addiction is rather loose and is based on whoever they can get to be on the show. Remember Rachel Uchitel and her “love” and Ambien addiction? Sadly, there are celebrities on that show who are truly addicted to drugs as well. Bassist Mike Starr of Alice in Chains was on Celebrity Rehab in 2009, and he just died at the age of 44 from as-of-yet unknown causes. He was arrested for felony of a controlled substance last month.
Meanwhile Tareq was staying with Michael Lohan, who just kicked him out of his West Hollywood apartment for not paying the bills. Radar has video of Michael complaining about Tareq, and suggests that Michael may have staged it for publicity. Given all the scams that Tareq and Michaele have pulled, it’s likely Michael was telling the truth and that Tareq didn’t pay his share.
There’s news that trainwreck Sean Young, 51, will join the cast of Celebrity Rehab, probably in Michaele’s place. Young was kicked out of an awards ceremony in early 2008 for being drunk and disorderly, and the decline of her career is generally blamed on her eccentric, probably drunken behavior and the way she stalked James Woods after their breakup in the late 80s. She’ll be an interesting addition for sure. Look at this crazy bitch. She’s holding a bunny and wearing a fur coat. She brought that rabbit with her too, no one else at that event was holding it.
Photos of the Salahis from October, 2010 credit: WENN.com. Photos of Sean Young from December 2010 (bunny pictures) and April, 2010 credit: PRPhotos
In order to achieve fame and get paid to do it, one has to be a substance abuser and people are faking addiction to get on TV. What a country. Let’s all stand and sing America the Beautiful.
She needs to be in rehab for famewhore addiction.
I’m addicted to Celebitchy can we all get reality shows too!!! Kaiser pearls can be a wardrobe featured
Someone should create a reality show with the all the fake-assing famewhores famous for doing and being NOTHING but desperate for attention: Heidi & Spencer, the Slobbering Salahis, Paris Hilton, etc….just put them into an arena, gladiator style and tell them to fight to the death.
It would be a great favor to humankind.
@Brin: I was about to say the same thing!
That, and the pathological lying.
So she’s addicted to MS, is that what her husband is trying to say? WTF is wrong with these people? No amount of reality show famewhoring is going to fill up the emptiness inside you. Try humility & honesty, you know…virtues instead of vices!
Also, she’s a bit long in the tooth to pull off that Catholic school girl look, no?
you said it all, dread pirate. she looks like a mummified schoolgirl.
Sean Young is a true nut. I have never watched this show but I just may this season. Remember when she dressed up like cat woman and went on some talk show acting like cat woman because she wanted the role that went to Michelle Pfeiffer. Cuckoo.
I HATE SEAN YOUNG! I can’t watch anything that she is in.
But what will happen to the character Meggie from Y&R if Sean Young goes to rehab!? NOOOOO! 🙂
What a selfish woman. There are so many people that deserve dr drew’s attention. The media should stay from away from this piece of trash- she’s only addicted to herself!
Can’t stand Sean Young. She has a dreadful speaking voice and her acting sucks.
Sean Young used to be rather scary, but when I saw an old video of her dressed as Catwoman, and she said she was joking, I think that might be true and she was misunderstood. Some people have no social skills or ability to be funny.
Also, I think James Woods later disavowed the claims of Sean Young acting crazy, it was some doings of his former wife; she put a “dead baby” doll on the porch and tried to make it seem like Sean Young had done it. Pretty sure that came out a while ago.
I fully admit I love “Celebrity Rehab” and will be watching it this season…fully because of the presence of Bai Ling.
If she’s actually addicted to anything, it must be some kind of plant that only grows on an asteroid and only achieves potency after being consumed and excreted by an alien unicorn.
OMG, do you know what would be the best reality show ever? The “Bai and Bjørk Hour”. They wouldn’t even have to do anything. Just have Bai Ling and Bjørk in a room together. Your understanding of “reality” would never be the same again.
That poor bunny.
Someone needs to tell Michaele to stop shopping at Wet Seal.
I read somewhere that Tareq is now saying they’re going to sue Rehab because they’re in violation of the Americans with Disabiliies Act for firing her. Ostensibly, the disability is her MS and he’s implying that’s why she was fired, not that she isn’t addicted to anything . . . other than fame.
They’re just like the Lohans; their entire income is based off lawsuit proceeds.
Does that mean Sean Young was strung out on Skating with the Stars? 😮
I have an honest question: Can one really have a “relapse” when one has MS? My understanding is that it is a progressive disease, not one that is prone to remission & relapse, but I could very well be wrong.
The Salahis make me ill, really & truly ill.
It makes me sick how someone goes onto this show with MS!! I have MS and it is not an addiction, you can not cure it, you did not ask for it and you can’t get rid of it. She needs MENTAL help if anything…she likes FAME and probably makes her money off of stupid publicity stunts.
Bodhi: Yes, one can have a “relapse”…I have had MS for 9 years and a relapse can happen from stress and causes the MS to become active….(ie. numbness in limbs). I have about 2 or 3 a year.
When I first saw the header picture I thought it was someone in a hospital bed hooked up to a ventilator.
She is also a complete loser. It seems so many who decide to become actors and get some fame, after the fame sudsides, they literally cave into their empty lives spending the rest of their lives whoring themselves out like insecure pathetic fools.
A few weeks ago, Salahis taped a segment for ABC’s 20/20. Topic, workplace discrimination of employees suffering from disabilities, Michaele to discuss her own experiences in relation to her MS. She bragged on her facebook page that she was going to be the new spokesperson for these people. After this, she starts filming on Celeb. Rehab and gets the boot. No evidence of addiction and appear no neuralogical disorder either. Today Tareq Salahi claims in TMZ interview, Celeb Rehab violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and going to expose this on ABC 20/20. Since they already filmed one segment, this is beginning to look like Salahis deliberately setup Celebrity Rehab, to bolster their appearance on 20/20. This really stinks to high heaven!
Dammit kaiser, I wish I hadn’t seen this post. Now I have to watch that horrible sad offensive exploitative show if I see that it’s on. I’m still not over my schoolgirl crush on Sean, and even in these crazy-lady pics she retains a “luminous beauty” or some such drivel, to me. Who knows how many hours of my life will now be wasted watching Dr. Spew become an even bigger millionaire? Thanks a LOT. ;P
I am so glad Sean Young is on this show. Maybe she’ll get actual help. There is no one – NO ONE – more self-involved than she. She blames her current lack of a career on basically everyone else, and doesn’t consider that drunkenly crashing events or stalking people also has something do with her Hollywood shutout. It’s insanity. It ill be nothing if not entertaining and cautionary.
@Rio, I would absolutely watch every moment of Bai and Bjork. Over and over and over again.
Id much rather see Sean than Michelle.
@Rio, I’d watch, too! I’ll definitely probably watch this season of CR since Sean Young is on. I don’t regularly watch, but when I do I find there’s usually one or two real addicts in the mix and they break my heart. Mike Starr and Leif Garrett both seem to carry such a sadness with them. I was really hoping Starr had broken his addiction. Fingers crossed for Leif.
I wonder if Michaele the psychopath has had an MRI scan and a spinal tap. My best friend has MS. It’s not hard to prove because you would have the hard copy documents/evidence.
I loathe this b*tch with the fire of a trillion suns.
Of course they’re all addicts. They crave attention and go into withdrawals without it. And just like addicts they’ll lie to get what they need. Nuff said.