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Courtney Love knows what Britney Spears is going though
Courtney Love in her first interview in over a year, says she knows exactly what Britney Spears is going through. They certainly now have a lot in common, in that both have been rolled out on gurneys, lost custody of their kids and damaged their music careers. Love who is now in a more peaceful place spiritually, spoke to Access Hollywood and has a little advice for her fellow embattled train wreck.
Courtney said, “I know exactly what’s going on, having been there. If she doesn’t get help something very, very bad is gonna happen. Marilyn Monroe was strapped to a gurney too, but, other than me and Britney, no one’s ever been strapped to a gurney.”
Love who in addition to her severe drug and alcohol problems is also bipolar, says, “It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt it’s a genetic condition and it’s a disease. It’s a part of our brain that doesn’t care about consequences, it doesn’t care if our children are gonna be taken away.”
Courtney wants to reach out to Britney and show her things can be turned around. Love herself has regained custody of her daughter, Frances Bean, in 2005 and has been clean since a 90-day house arrest later that year. She credits actor Orlando Bloom, for helping guide her to the Buddhist practice of chanting. That’s not to say Courtney Love is a great role model, but if she can regain some semblance of normalicy to her life perhaps Britney can too.
I understand what Courtney Love is saying but not sure that I agree. All of us agree that when drugs are ruining your life you need to make a change. Most addicted people will agree. It took a real disaster for Courtney to get help. However, many others don’t get help. Why?
As the director of Novus Medical Detox, I would suggest that many people never make it to rehab because they have tried to stop and the withdrawal pain was too great. This is why 95% of the people that try on their own don’t make it. They fear the withdrawal more than the problem.
Some people’s DNA and metabolism does make them more susceptible to dependence and addiction and either way the withdrawal is painful.
We now have protocols that make it much more comfortable and once off the drugs/alcohol, then they will be thinking more clearly and have a better chance in rehab.
The decision to change their lives must be made for any rehab to work. The confidence that they can stand the pain is often required before the decision to get rehab.
I think that many of the problems experienced by people are from the prescription drugs that they are taking as well as any other drugs/alcohol that they are using.
Steve Hayes