Dr. Drew: I’ll Stop When Addiction Stops
- Feb 4, 2010 03:15 PM ET
- by
Gina DiNunno
Dr. Drew, Celebrity Rehab
As the star of three seasons of Celebrity Rehab, Dr. Drew Pinsky knows he might sound hypocritical when he tells people not to fixate on celebrities’ lives.
“I understand that people interpret this as hypocritical, but what I mean to say is the media is presenting really disturbed people in desperate straits, and we as consumers are just lapping it up. And that says something about us, not about them,” Pinsky told TVGuide.com. “I’m also the person treating addiction saying, ‘Don’t do drugs.’ But I’ve got to go to where the problem is to address it. When it stops, I’ll stop — happily.”
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The VH1 series (Thursdays, 10/9c) follows several celebrities as they undergo treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, under the watchful eyes of Pinksy, a camera crew and the audience at home. Participants in the program/show include Tom Sizemore, Heidi Fleiss and Mackenzie Phillips, as well as Dennis Rodman.