Richie Sambora Heading Back to Rehab

(HMG Celebrity News) – Singer/songwriter Richie Sambora, who is the longtime lead guitarist of the popular rock band Bon Jovi, is checking back into rehab.  According to RadarOnline after coming off a highly successful tour with Bon Jovi, Sambora is checking into a facility for exhaustion and to regain his sobriety. It was not immediately clear how Sambora’s treatment will affect his role in Bon Jovi, as the band is scheduled to play tour dates this month in the U.S. before performing in Europe during June. Sambora spent a month at Cirque Lodge in Utah in 2007, after the traumatic break-up of his marriage to Heather Locklear and his split from girlfriend Denise Richards the same month his father died of lung cancer. Following his release, he told an interviewer, “I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I’m still in therapy and stuff like that, but it’s good. I’m great. I feel fine.” In the Bon Jovi documentary When We Were Beautiful, Sambora talks candidly about his addiction to painkillers following a slip in his bathroom. He credited his bandmates and mother with helping him through the difficult time