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Is Heather Locklear’s Problem Vicodin?

Says Janet Charlton:

According to acquaintances, Heather has been abusing prescription painkillers every day for around 20 years. Specifically vicodin. This kind of long term pill popping can easily lead to kidney damage and the need for dialysis. One of her exboyfriends is hooked on the same pills so they had a great time while it lasted. Obviously, Heather’s recent aborted attempt at rehab where she claimed it was for “depression,” didn’t help at all. It makes one rethink the possible causes for her divorce from Richie Sambora. Heather is well liked in Hollywood and everyone hopes she’ll finally get a grip on this problem.

Dude a bottle of Vicodin sounds damn good to me right about now. I’m super grumpy and I can’t figure out why. I’m just a grumpster. It’s been a stressful day. I told you guys about the Dell drama last night, and then this morning I thought my health insurance had expired without my knowledge (it hadn’t, it just got transferred to a different company, but it took my all day to figure that out and in the meantime I was trying to figure out how the hell to get health insurance, like, NOW) and then Leo had to go get tested for heartworm (he’s fine, the vet just called with the results) and my new health insurance provider will only cover prescriptions if I order them from some stupid online pharmacy that needs like a whole special fancy order form faxed in by my doctor and, like, I can’t even remember who prescribes my birth control these days so I have no idea how I’m going to get that dealt with and my car needs emissions testing and there are only like four places in the county that do it, none of which are close to where I live, and I didn’t sleep well last night and am exhausted.

Oh and also the economy’s totally collapsing and I need to go to the store and stock up on bottled water and the like to prep for the apocalypse.

Oh and ALSO what’s up with no new House tonight? Someone explain that BULLSHIT to me, stat.

I think it’s my nap time. If someone wants to stop by my apartment with chocolate bars, that would be nice, too. Because I totally don’t have a good drug hook-up in Seattle, so I’m gonna have to rely on chocolate for now.

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  • I would bring you chocolate, but am too afraid that you are PMSing and are going to ask me, “Do I look fat” and kick me in the crotch no matter what I say.

    Also… What is “House”???

  • Since I just moved to Hawaii, my car hasn’t arrived yet, so I had to take the bus to a job interview. On the way home, a stranger flicked a booger on me.

    Does that help, Beet?

  • That ex boyfriend they are talking about is a Ted blind item, only the blind part was the substance, not who she was doing it with. It was David Spade.

  • try all that crap you just said was stressing you out and add to that being a single parent to a toddler, going to graduate school at night and working a full-time job and only having two locations to get your emissions testing done, getting kicked out of WA basic health because you earn $19 dollars a month too much, but can’t find any private health insurance for less than $350 a month to replace it so you go without health insurance, add your toddler getting chicken pox and not being able to go to preschool for 2 weeks, your water heater breaking down and no money to replace it and not having had sex in, well, so long it’s embarrassing to admit to that…yeah…(don’t worry those days are long over…but that was one awful autumn about 11 years ago for me and I did get through it without vicodin) yeah, beet, what’s that saying?
    what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!

  • it cant be painkillers
    did anyone see her mug shot? Her pupils are dilated. Opiod/opiate painkillers constrict the pupils.
    Im not saying she doesnt do them, but she wasnt high on them at the time that picture was taken

  • hey beet- things are hard, i know. i have a friend whose boyfriend was waiting to cross the street and was hit by a stray bullet which lodged in his spine. he is now a quadrapalegic at 28, and my friend, who has spent the last 4 years taking care of him is worried that they will not be able to afford the visiting home nurse who comes twice a week to help out, and on top of that …. oh, i’m sorry. you were whining about your favorite tv show not being on and having to take your dog to the vet.

  • she’s had a problem with vicodin for years. but as chelsea reminds us above, vicodin is an opiate and gives you tiny pupils. take another look at the mug shot. i really doubt she’s on lsd but that is what it looks like, or some serious coke. but whatever it is, she should’ve popped a couple vicodins, it might have evened out her pupils to some kind of normal size.

  • i dont get it…. i take vicodin daily for chronic pain (neuropathy) for years with no adverse effect. it is rxed by a doctor and monitored… i never feel high from it and have never felt the need to take more than what my dr. tells me to.. i think this drug gets bad press

  • Jayne; I also was taking vicodin daily for chronic pain. It was the only drug that worked for me. Tried many others with no relief. Now the Doctor who was prescribing it is retired.
    Any doctor you could refer me to? Thanks!

  • vicodin is evil. and they should take it off the market. It is a horrible highly addictive nightmare.
    Anyone know how to get off of them so I can have my sweet self back?