The “Celebrity Rehab” curse is real. Nearly a dozen stars who appeared on “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” have died, including most recently Shifty Shellshock, 49, the frontman of Crazy Town. The VH1 reality series premiered in 2008. Each season followed a different group of celebrities being treated for their addictions by Dr. Drew Pinsky … Read more
Shifty Shellshock, the frontman of the rap rock band Crazy Town, has died. He was 49. Per the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s website, Shellshock — whose real name was Seth Binzer — died on Monday. Shifty Shellshock at the Download Festival 2014. Redferns via Getty Images The singer, who battled addiction for years, passed away … Read more
In the dark. Jon Cryer revealed that he didn’t know Demi Moore was addicted to drugs when they dated in the 1980s. “We dated for a short time while we were working on ‘No Small Affair,’ but I guess our particular affair was, in fact, pretty small,” Cryer, 59, told PEOPLE in an interview published Saturday. … Read more
Confessions of a sleeping shopaholic. One English woman opted out of counting sheep for sleep and instead is adding items to online shopping carts during late-night spending sprees. Kelly Knipes, 42, confessed that she spent more than $3,800 on shopping while snoozing due to a rare sleep disorder. Kelly Knipes, 42, confessed that she shops … Read more
A woman who has loved buildable Legos ever since she was a little girl is taking her obsession to the next level by making dog houses. Lauretta Quincey received her first box of Legos when she was just seven years old, which sparked her passion for collecting stackable toys. The 40-year-old told SWNS, the British news … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. It’s been 14 long years since the “classic” members of Jane’s Addiction have officially toured together in North America. Thankfully, that all changes later this summer. Starting in … Read more
A new study shows that children who spend time on social media are more likely to vape and smoke cigarettes than their peers. Analyzing data from 10,808 people aged 10 to 25 in the UK, a research team from the Imperial College London School of Public Health found a shocking correlation between screen time and … Read more
A 30-year-old Tennessee mom who picked up vaping early in the COVID-19 pandemic claims the habit nearly killed her, with a doctor reportedly saying it was “frying [her] lungs like hot chicken.” Hannah Roth began to hear a “popping” sound in her lungs last month, and she developed a fever of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Scans … Read more
One woman’s constant pursuit of pleasure has yielded nothing but pain. A young nymphomaniac says sex addiction has destroyed her relationships and thwarted her career prospects due to her compulsion to masturbate on the job. The anonymous addict, aged 25, took to Reddit earlier this week to reveal that she had been diagnosed as a … Read more
Fred Otash was determined to get Judy Garland to the other side of the rainbow. The claim was made in a new biography about Tinseltown’s most notorious private detective, “The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars and Marilyn.” It delves into shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files. For the book, co-author Manfred Westphal was given … Read more
For one woman, sex addiction took over her life — and pushed her to the brink of suicide. A 35-year-old named Amanda opened up recently on the podcast We’re All Insane with host Devorah Roloff, about how her obsession with intimacy has given her a warped sense of love. Amanda — who asked to remain partially anonymous … Read more
DEAR ABBY: My brother (eight years younger) has been hooked on drugs and in and out of jail for decades. Our father passed away five years ago. My brother lived with him in a different state until then. Prior to that, he stole from our mother and from me repeatedly. He’s a criminal and is … Read more
Your emotions are expensive, according to a professional spending coach. Paige Pritchard, the Texas-based founder of the online community Overcoming Overspending, recently posted a video to her TikTok to share her tips on how to keep impulse buying at bay. The content creator said that the purpose of her 3½-minute clip — which was posted … Read more
A self-proclaimed “vaping addict” is calling for the devices to be banned after her right lung collapsed twice and she suffered permanent scars. “You never think this type of thing will happen to you — but it happened to me. It felt like my lung was on fire,” Wisconsinite Karlee Ozkurt, 20, told SWNS. “I … Read more
Sex sells — but celibacy pays. An Australian man says he managed to become a millionaire in 18 months after giving up sex to focus on getting rich. Somesh Kay, 24, says he was previously a sex addict, engaging in intercourse up to five times a day. “I took the break from sex to focus … Read more
Help may be on the way for junk food addicts. Recent studies suggest that these irresistible dishes are not only designed to be delicious, but also addictive — so much so that some experts are calling the insatiable craving a bona fide mental illness, per the Wall Street Journal. Symptoms of “ultra-processed food use disorder” … Read more
A British man says he had to seek treatment for his Tinder addiction after swiping on 500 profiles per day. Ed Turner, 27, confessed to obsessively using the popular dating app simply for the rush he would feel when members of the fairer sex “liked” his profile — and that he had no intention of … Read more
It’s all just empty calories. A social media user has gone viral with a crunchy new critique of the much-maligned modern phenomenon — they’re calling it the “Dorito Theory.” The name might be new, but the idea that unsatisfying activities can be the most addictive is as old as time. “When you eat a Dorito … Read more
Hollywood can’t stop huffing and puffing. And I don’t mean celebrities’ annoying political bloviating during awards season speeches. Movies, lately, have become littered with drugs and booze. At the Sundance Film Festival in January, I watched depressing flick after depressing flick about dealers, addicts, good trips, bad trips, pills, pot, meth, coke, Rohypnol, injectable steroids … Read more
There was a situation with this memoir. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was afraid to have the producer of “Jersey Shore” read his book, which detailed his drug addiction, including smuggling pills onto the set of the reality series. “I was a little nervous for my boss to read the book,” admitted Sorrentino about SallyAnn Salsano, the founder … Read more