A young Ohio woman was so addicted to vaping that she showered and slept with an e-cigarette — until she nearly died when her lungs collapsed and black goo poured out of her. Now, she’s warning others to steer clear of vaping. Her message comes amid estimates there are 82 million vapers worldwide. “I wouldn’t wish … Read more
Jane’s Addiction has canceled the rest of their reunion tour after frontman Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro got into a fight onstage in Boston Friday night. The band shared the news in a statement on their Instagram account Monday. “To all the fans, the band have made the difficult decision to take some time … Read more
Jane’s Addiction apologized to their fans for abruptly ending their show early on Friday following an on-stage scuffle between frontman Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro. “We want to extend a heartfelt apology to our fans for the events that unfolded last night,” the band wrote in a statement on their Instagram story Saturday night. … Read more
Etty Lou Farrell, the wife of Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, revealed the reason behind the band’s on-stage brawl in Boston Friday night. She took to Instagram Saturday morning to give “a first person account of what happened on stage,” claiming “there had been a lot of tension and animosity between the members” of the … Read more
Beantown band brawl! Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell punched guitarist Dave Navarro during an on-stage outburst as several crew members dragged him off stage and abruptly ended the reunited band’s Boston concert on Friday night. Farrell was in the middle of performing “Ocean Size” when he started angrily grunting and telling the crowd at the … Read more
Elle Macpherson is opening up about her past struggles with alcohol. The 60-year-old Australian supermodel, who has been sober since 2003, revealed in her upcoming memoir “Elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself” that she used to force herself to throw up from drinking vodka every night after putting her children to bed. During … Read more
Parents are stressed out just like kids because they are often absorbed and distracted by their constantly pinging mobile phones, a University of Michigan Medicine study has found. Busy working parents find there are many conveniences to their mobile devices — but that the daily digital notifications from their screens also cause anxiety, according to … Read more
The one where they remember Matthew Perry. “Friends” creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane spoke about the late actor and learning of his addiction during the show in an interview with The Times U.K. published Friday. “By the time we became aware of it, we were already a family on a lot of levels,” said … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I am very close to my oldest sister’s three sons, especially “Lucas,” who is 38. He and I have communicated often and have seen each other (we live in different states) over the years. In a way, I have been his confidant. He knows I love him like a son. Lucas is a … Read more
An Australian woman’s desperate plea for advice about her nephew has gone viral after she shared her observations on the AITA Reddit forum. She describes how her sister and husband have a 10-year-old boy who she calls “Jimothy” that she looks after on occasional weekends and mornings. It was about a year ago when she first noticed a … Read more
Rob Lowe credits the fallout of his notorious sex tape being leaked with helping him get sober. The “St. Elmo’s Fire” actor, 60, said in a new interview with People that the 1988 scandal, while humiliating for him at the time, was actually a major reason he beat his struggles with addiction. “[The fallout] definitely … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I have been with my live-in boyfriend, “Kyle,” for four years. He has many great qualities, the most important of them being he fully accepts my daughter as his own. He doesn’t see her as his “girlfriend’s kid” or even a “stepchild.” She has no contact with her biological father or any of … Read more
Jessica Simpson shut down speculation that she broke her sobriety. The 44-year-old fashion designer responded to a fan who told her to “stop drinking” in the comments section of her Instagram post from Monday, which featured a picture of her 11-year-old son Ace. “I haven’t wanted or touched alcohol since October 2017 and it has been the … Read more
Pete Davidson is done using drugs — with one exception. The 30-year-old comedian said at his “Pete Davidson: Rehab Tour” in Atlantic City Saturday that he “can’t quit” weed, following his stint in rehab last summer. “It’s all I have left,” he said about marijuana, according to the Daily Mail. Pete Davidson at the 2023 Nickelodeon … Read more
Not all vices are created equally. New research published in Human Brain Mapping shows that pornographic images trigger the reward centers of the brain more than the prospect of money or gaming in healthy adult men. The study explored how the human brain becomes conditioned to receive internet-related stimuli, particularly pornography, gambling and video gaming — … Read more
Come to her window. Rock star Melissa Etheridge takes a leaf out of Johnny Cash’s book and performs at a prison in her new docuseries, “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken.” “I grew up in Leavenworth, Kansas, and most people know it from all the prisons,” Etheridge, 63, told The Post. “I could see [the federal … Read more
Cara Delevingne is thankful she was sober after her $7 million mansion burnt down in March. “It sucks but everyone was safe and, like anything, if I’d not been sober I would still be reeling over that,” the 31-year-old actress told The Times in an interview published Sunday. “It would still affect me really deeply,” … Read more
The late Crazy Town singer Shifty Shellshock, aka Seth Brooks Binzer, talked about sobriety in one of his final interviews before his accidental overdose, in footage obtained by TMZ. In the interview, the singer was at a Rock to Recovery benefit concert last August at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood, and told Mayra Dias Gomes, “I’m … Read more
DEAR ABBY: My elderly father died recently. Although he had a variety of ailments, including heart disease, his death was unexpected. He spent many years of his life trying to save my drug-addicted, criminal sister from herself. Despite occasional periods of sobriety, she has invariably returned to her evil ways. Three days before Dad passed, … Read more
Dick Van Dyke got sober more than 50 years ago, but he still has to keep himself in check. The 98-year-old Hollywood legend appeared on Wednesday’s episode of the Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast, and was asked if he thinks the intense fame he experienced in the 1960s from his namesake sitcom led to him becoming an … Read more