Angelina and Brad, Eva Longoria, Miley Cyrus – seriously, Dr. Drew doesn’t hold back.
On Angelina Jolie and heroin and also Brad Pitt: 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 whose 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’s recent breakup: 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 Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynold’s divorce: I don’t know what that was … I’ve known Ryan for a long time. He seems like someone who should have a healthy relationship.
On Miley Cyrus: 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 Grammar and 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.
Here’s the deal – I love Dr. Drew. I think he’s a really great dude. He does a ridiculous amount of work – he has a private medical practice, he works at a hospital, he speaks at colleges all the time, and he’s done Loveline for two hours a night, five nights a week since 1984 – he really wants to help people. As for the televised rehab business, he’s said time and again that it’s a bait and switch in that the celebrities do it for the money and the press, and while that’s a flawed motivation, they still end up in treatment, which is more than they would have gotten on their own. People might point out that a lot of his patients relapse, but, you know, addicts tend to relapse a couple times. And in terms of the viewers, they get to learn a little about addiction and recovery, and people call into Loveline all the time to say that Celebrity Rehab helped motivate them to go to rehab themselves. The man does good stuff.
I think that Dr. Drew has the best intentions, and with things like this, the statements about celebrities, he’s just trying to help by offering educated opinions on addiction, which he constantly says is the number one problem of this generation. And the guy’s been treating addicts and giving relationship advice for almost thirty years now, so I’m pretty confident he knows what he’s talking about.
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