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LeAnn Rimes Went to Rehab Over Someone Named “Smiley”

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So, I know I’ll feel like a total heel if I make fun of LeAnn Rimes probably, like, ever again, because what’s so funny about anxiety and depression and all of that business, especially when all of that anxiety and depression probably stems from people making fun of her as it is. Ugh. What kind of world do we live in that I actually have sympathy and empathy and pity for someone like LeAnn Rimes? This new, weird one where Courtney Stodden is eighteen and probably doing pornos as we speak. Weird, weird world, guys.

As you’re all most likely aware by now, LeAnn Rimes is in rehab for the next thirty days, being treated for “anxiety” and “stress” issues, and Radar Online has an exclusive interview with someone who identifies herself as “Kimberly Smiley,” and who claims that LeAnn’s had a long history of bizarre and erratic behavior because of past and present mental and emotional abuse by those in her life. From Radar:

Before LeAnn Rimes entered treatment — reportedly for “anxiety and stress” — the country singer exhibited bizarre and erratic behavior, including phoning and cursing a woman who stopped following her on Twitter!

While Rimes engaged in a very public Twitter war earlier this month after one follower accused her of cheating with Eddie Cibrian, she had a far more bizarre meltdown right before that, going on a profanity-laced tirade against a teacher who stopped being a fan of the star. Radar has the exclusive details of how LeAnn found and confronted Kimberly Smiley, the woman who stopped following the star on Twitter!

Smiley was stunned when she answered the phone earlier this year and the voice on the other end said: “Hey b**ch this is LeAnn you have 5 minutes to say whatever you want to me!”. Yes, it was the real LeAnn and according to Smiley the star filled their conversation with extensive profanity. In fact, Smiley said that she has “never heard a person cuss so much.

“I even asked her to watch it, saying, ‘Your language — so trashy!’ I was also surprised that she thought I’d just change my mind about her and want to come hang with her,” Smiley said. “I don’t like her, not because of the affair (although I don’t agree with it), but because of her taunting of Brandi and using those boys in her sick game.”

Rimes’ obsession with Twitter is what led her to Smiley, who followed the star in 2010 when she was still reeling from the “home-wrecker” label some media outlets had tagged her with after she hooked up with a married Brandi Glanville’s husband Eddie Cibrian. Rimes was publicly feuding with Brandi.

Smiley became a strong supporter of Brandi’s on Twitter and LeAnn blocked her. Smiley claims she was harassed by many of the singer’s fervent fans and charges that she learned through other Twitter users that Rimes had set up a phony account (handle: @wewenlove) account “to harass Brandi.”

That backstory set the stage for March 26 of this year when Rimes went to lunch with some of her Twitter fans, who also happened to know Smiley. One of those fans, a woman named Ericka, unexpectedly called Smiley. “Ericka said, ‘Hi,’ and then handed the phone to LeAnn,” Smiley said, noting she was taken aback when Rimes introduced herself, saying “Hey b***h, this is LeAnn, you have five minutes to say whatever you want to me.

“LeAnn called me because she believed that telling me her side, would change my mind,” Smiley says, adding “she said she thought that I could relate to her situation of being a non-biological parent.” (Cibrian has two sons with Glanville.)

Smiley said that Rimes even “invited her to come hang” out so she could get to know “the real” her. They also “spoke about her obsession with Twitter and Rimes claims it’s not a problem.”

Rimes behavior was bizarre and Smiley charges that she has “concocted these elaborate stories” trying to “justify the affair” with her now-husband Cibrian, implying Glanville’s “erratic” drinking essentially drove him into her arms. Another keynote of Rimes’ agenda, Smiley said, is “to convince the world of her importance” in the lives of Cibrian’s sons, Jake and Mason.

In addition to the drama with Glanville, Rimes told her Twitter pal Ericka that her ex-husband Dean Sheremet was “extremely abusive and controlling,” Smiley said, claiming Rimes said Sheremet “would call her fat and tell her that her singing sucks.

“She also tells her fans that he’s a homosexual and that he can’t come out until both sets of his grandparents die, which I find to be so cruel,” Smiley said. (Dean, following his divorce from LeAnn, married photographer Sarah Silver in August 2011.)

Smiley said she finds it odd that Rimes “is very worried about the group of people I talk to on Twitter. She really wants us to like her and see that she’s not as bad as we think. It’s very strange, if you ask me,” Smiley said. “I mean I’m just a mom, wife, & teacher from a rural town in Northern California: Why would she care?”

Well she probably cares because that’s what people who constantly seek validation from other people do—they thrive on approval and crack and crumble when they don’t get it, and I think that LeAnn was probably in a pretty vulnerable place when she hooked up with Eddie Cibrian, and I don’t think the relationship—or the marriage—has really done her all that much good, to be frank.

Maybe if she dropkicks this douchebag to the curb, too, she might be doing alright for herself. I apologize in advance for saying this, especially in light of more recent (and way obnoxious) LeAnn Rimes posts, but I’m pulling for the girl. GAH. I’m pulling for the girl.

I need a drink now.

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  • Me too. I’ve seen some pretty horrible things written about her, and the pack mentality that escalates everything is chilling.
    In Australia we have a tv celeb called Charlotte Dawson, and she came out a few days back and said that bullying was wrong, on Twitter. She defended someone being bullied, and was then set upon so much and so brutally that today she is in the hospital. They think she had a break down last night, because of hundreds of threatening verbal attacks. Sounds hard to believe, but it really can be frightening to be brutalised like that, even for an adult.

  • I just read that Leann is freaked because she suspects Eddie is cheating on her, which would explain a lot…not counting the bikini addiction. On the other hand, I used to go on Twitter but dropped it about a month later because that became ALL I was doing; positive AND negative twittering. I think anyone can get hooked on Twitter to the point that it becomes your only reality. Maybe this is what happened to Rimes?

  • This trick reaps EVERYTHING she has sewn. This is a stunt queen move if I ever saw one. She is a smug cheater and liar. NO sympathies on my part- sometimes you make mistakes that follow you to the grave. You deal w/it and move the heck on.
    She is in a state of arrested development. Grow up Leann. You stalk, and cyber bully your fair share. Google “Weweinlove” and “witchy” twitter accounts.

      • What exactly makes her ‘the devil’? If people really are this upset to this today about TWO people who decided TOGETHER to have an affair, well I think it says way more about you than Leann. Life happens, no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. Everyone has hurt other people in their lifetime, unless of course you are trying to claim that you are the only two humans to have ever existed that have not hurt anyone, never stepped on anyone and are perfect. If you believe that about yourself then I really don’t need to say anything else because you just proved my point.

  • She’s a trainwreck.

    She needs to get off the beach, get off twitter and go back to work. Do something besides post bikini pics, lady.

  • LeeAnn Rimes did this to herself. What did she think would happen when she had an affair with a married man and then continually flaunted it?

  • I seriously don’t care about the affair at all. Relationships don’t always start in a pretty way. The kicker for me is her after behavior. She has rewarded Twitter followers who have horribly abused her husband’s ex with trips to visit her, dinners, shopping sprees and even had the audacity to allow these people around her husband’s children. She herself has had several proven fake Twitter accounts that she used to insult the ex and others. She called a stranger with a locked Twitter account to berate her and bash the ex, while surrounded by Twitter followers she pals around with, on speakerphone in a busy restaurant and again, has the audacity to sue the person she was harassing. LeAnn takes no responsibility for her behavior and instead blames everyone else for the public’s perception of her. This is just another in a long line of PR fails on her part. If this goes to court, many in her inner circle will be dragged in and considering the fact her record producer and stylist bully people on her behalf, that won’t exactly translate well in her quest to play victim.

  • The first thing she is going to have to stop doing is celebcutting.
    (reading posts by non-celeb nobodies like us)
    It is tough at the top. And she is finding out there is room. Very roomy.
    Anyway, I want to marry her next.

  • Leann gets out of rehab for the weekend and she goes right back to tweeting. She posted some quotes to her twitter account. But at least she had the sense not to respond to the people who commented on her quotes. With the tweets comes the staged photo-ops!

    Leann is just way too confident that she will win this case, so she must have something else to support what she is saying about the Brandi fans and supporters.

    The public and media’s sympathy for Leann is changing. Now it seems like people are supporting her more.

  • Take note involving and positioning yourself in other people marriage always brings about destruction for yourself. This was destined to happen, she will never be happy.