Who is cinnamon on celebrity rehab

On the one hand, it's the complete opposite of frothy, largely superficial reality shows like "The Real Housewives" franchise or "The Bachelor," a stark, unflinching, and non-romanticized look at familiar and beloved famous people attempting to manage or defeat the addictions that have thrown their lives into turmoil while also addressing the deep-seated psychological issues that led them to substance abuse.

However, the show, hosted by celebrity physician and radio health counselor Dr. Drew Pinsky, earned some criticism for the perception that it exploited sick people at their lowest point and made their very real struggles into entertainment. There's also the sad and shocking legacy of the show: In the immediate years after "Celebrity Rehab" first aired, a number of cast members died , many as a direct result of their illness or continued drug use.

Here are all of the people from the Dr. Drew series who have since died. If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. In June , "Grease" hit movie theaters and became the highest-grossing movie of the year, with Jeff Conaway co-starring as s high school bad boy Kenickie. Conaway left "Taxi" after three seasons, which, according to a interview with writer Sam Simon on "The Howard Stern Show" via MarksFriggin , was due in part to the actor's drug use.

He was cut from an episode after being discovered in his dressing room too high to perform. Conaway worked consistently for the next 30 years, but mostly in B-movies and guest-star gigs. In the mids, Conaway re-emerged on VH1, according to The Hollywood Reporte r, appearing on the network's weight loss competition "Celebrity Fit Club" in , but departed after three episodes and an on-screen breakdown. In , the same year he threatened members of the band Oasis with a knife, he returned to VH1 for "Celebrity Rehab with Dr.

Drew" to seek treatment for substance abuse issues. Two years later, Conaway fell down a flight of stairs, enduring a brain hemorrhage and numerous broken bones and attempted to wean himself off the painkillers to which he'd become addicted after another, earlier surgery.

In May , Conaway was found unresponsive in his home, with strong indications that the actor had overdosed on painkillers. After two weeks of hospitalization, Conaway was taken off of life support and died at age One of the most imposing, dominating, and therefore charismatic and popular wrestlers in the WWE enterprise during its late '90s and early s popularity surge, Joanie Laurer went by the ring name of Chyna and helped make women's professional wrestling an extremely popular form of sports entertainment.

Drew," in hopes of getting a problem with alcohol under control. Per a report issued by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner via the Los Angeles Times , Lauer died after consuming a fatal mixture of alcohol, Valium, opioid-based painkillers, and sleeping pills.

Laurer was 46 years old. As an actor in raunchy movies think: Tom Hanks' "Bachelor Party" , a music video "vixen," and celebrity strongly associated with the world of big-haired glam metal, Tawny Kitaen was a sex symbol — and a distinctly s one at that. According to TMZ , she appeared, scantily and provocatively clad, on the covers of albums by the popular hard-rock band Ratt, then solidified her spot in hair metal history when she cartwheeled and writhed on top of cars in the video for Whitesnake's 1 hit "Here I Go Again.

Drew" two years later, which followed a stay at a residential treatment center to beat a cocaine habit, according to The Daily Pilot. In , per Radar , Kitaen was arrested for driving under the influence, and her case was set to go before a judge in May But then Kitaean died in Newport Beach, California, that same month. Her mother has been unsympathetic to these incidents, characterizing them as the natural consequence of being an addict and drug dealer. Deanna also says she suffers psychological abuse as a child.

She has been drinking since she was 15, and can drink up to 40 beers or a gallon of wine a night. She and her husband have a 4-year-old son named Jaden. She has been arrested for driving while intoxicated and suffers from blackouts and an liver enlarged by alcohol liver disease, which Dr. Drew says could develop into an advanced form if she doesn't stop drinking. She suffers from guilt over throwing away a baby that was born to her when she was four months pregnant.

During the season she attempts to repair her relationship with her father, Mario, a recovering alcohol and heroin addict and former gang member who was not present in her life because he was 16 when she was conceived. At age 15, she was selling cocaine, and had people working for her. She eventually learned how to forge signatures, which she used to sign herself out of school, after which she traveled around a lot, characterizing her life as "jet-setting to the tenth degree".

She hit rock bottom shortly after she contacted the producers, and entered another rehab facility, and thus enters the Pasadena Recovery Center with a few days of sobriety. She says she can drink up to nine or ten bottles of wine a day, and sprinkles heroin on crack to "take the edginess away". Drew, as the letter his mother wrote to Dr. Drew stood out to him. He has done a number of different drugs since the age of 13, characterizing himself a "trash can" for lacking any one drug of choice.

He says he had everything he needed as a child, and may have been "a bit spoiled". He began developing hyperactivity approximately in the third grade, for which he was put on Adderall until about the ninth grade. His joined his first band, Radio Reset, at 15, and was signed by a label at He sang for the Jackson family following the death of Michael Jackson.

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