Another Celeb Idot

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Another Celeb Idot
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Sun, 12-27-2009 - 7:21pm

For the life of me, I cannot understand celebrities and their personal lives. Charlie Sheen is the highest paid tv actor in the US. You would think he had "the world on a platter". Don't know who was to blame, him or his wife, but as the parents of twin baby boys, you would think they would try to create a normal life for themselves and their children. I know he had many problems with his former wife, Denise Richards.

What drives these celebrities (for example Tiger Woods and Charlie Sheen) to put their careers in jeopardy? Once again it goes to show, money doesn't buy happiness.

Rehab for Charlie Sheen and wife after drunken party fight

CHARLIE Sheen and his wife are expected to enter rehab, after their drunken Christmas Day brawl, as the star is accused of using a weapon.

While his wife has reportedly told police she lied about the actor choking her during their violent exchange, the couple is said to be committed to counseling and saving their marriage.

The Two And A Half Men star spent eight hours in a cell for allegedly grabbing Brooke Mueller by the throat, a claim she made in an emergency call but later withdrew.

Sheen told police he was trying to defend himself when the violent incident occurred in Aspen, Colorado, where the couple had been holidaying with their twin sons.

Police spokeswoman Stephanie Dasaro did not provide details on what kind of weapon Sheen is accused of using. Sheen also was arrested on investigation of second-degree assault, a felony, and criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.

Sheen has not been charged and was released Friday after posting an $8,500 bond. Prosecutors will determine whether to file charges.

Sheen, 44, the highest-paid star on US television, was charged with assault, menacing and criminal mischief but was bailed and released.

Police breath-tested both Sheen and his wife when they arrived on the scene, at 8.40am local time, with Sheen reportedly blowing .04 and Mueller .13.

Sheen's publicist released a statement soon after which read: "Appearance and reality can be as different as night and day."

Despite his wife's change of heart, prosecutors have said they still intend to proceed with charges against Sheen, although later reports suggest Mueller may instead face charges of making false accusations.

"It is not uncommon where a victim in the throes of an event says some things and thereafter the story seems to change," chief deputy district attorney Arnold Mordkin said.

Mr Mordkin is planning to file charges against Sheen during his next court date on February 8, with Mueller's fate undecided.

"I often file against someone who falsely accuses someone," he said.

Friends have told People magazine the couple, who both have histories of alcohol abuse, had earlier been at a dinner party and "were drinking and neither was supposed to be". The couple had begun fighting at the dinner party before returning to their home where the fight continued.

Sheen has now returned to their home in Los Angeles, while Mueller, 32, remained in Aspen.

"Brooke loves to snowboard and wants to be in Aspen now," a source told the magazine.

"After this unfortunate event, they need to be apart."

The couple married two years ago, with their sons Bob and Max born in March this year.

Sources close to the couple say the marriage had been troubled for some time, with Mueller "bored" with staying home with the Hollywood star.




Edited 12/27/2009 7:29 pm ET by sweetpea1946
 

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Sun, 12-27-2009 - 7:31pm

It's long been reported that Charlie has a bad temper.

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Sun, 12-27-2009 - 9:04pm
The bigger question is: Why do we care so much about celebrity's personal lives? Do you know if your banker is having marital problems, or your neighbor has a DUI, or if your dry cleaner has a drug habit? Do you care?

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Sun, 12-27-2009 - 9:06pm

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/rehab-for-charlie-sheen-and-wife-after-drunken-party-fight/story-e6frfmyi-1225814085470

Hope this works, yes I have heard he has a temper. What a waste of talent and I feel so sorry for those poor babies.

 
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Registered: 12-22-2009
Sun, 12-27-2009 - 10:50pm

Hmmm, well my young, handsome dentist got married a few months ago.

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Sun, 12-27-2009 - 11:28pm
We went through this with Tiger Woods....it isn't that I CARE about Charlie Sheen or his life, it is the fact that people like him have "it all" and they choose to mess it up. I just would like to know why...what makes a person toss their lives into the trash like that.
 
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Sun, 12-27-2009 - 11:37pm
The bigger mystery is why people even bother to click on threads about celebrities for the sole purpose of saying "who cares"?
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Mon, 12-28-2009 - 9:00am
Maybe they're curious.

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Mon, 12-28-2009 - 9:07am

This article is mostly about athletes & how 'popular' they become. This, I'm sure, applies to many celebrities. It takes strength of character & principles to resist the temptations that come with fame.


As far as Sheen he's been in & out of rehab before.


Op-Ed: Not Just Tiger’s Temptations


http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/not-just-tigers-temptations/?em


No one would have accused me of having multiple ladies on each arm when I was in high school or college. I was a diligent student, kind of nerdy, the son of a teacher, and as interested in baseball and computers as I was in girls. Still, I was told I had potential in the social department, if I applied myself.


But something magical happened before I had to do much work. I signed a professional baseball contract as a junior in college and went away to my first spring training as a member of the Chicago Cubs organization.


I remember returning to campus and, after appearing on a closed-circuit cable show to discuss my new career, having the attractive hostess offer to walk me home. Wow, that never happened before. Apparently, I had skipped a few of the steps to social acceptance, and before I knew it, “unapproachable” and “woman” were no longer being used in the same sentence.

So what actually did happen?


Even once you enter the professional ranks, there is plenty to worry about. A baseball player on draft day is still miles away from the big leagues.


Soon after being drafted, I realized something profound: a lot of the work required to make it takes place off the field, and involves how you manage your life. I witnessed a few of my minor league counterparts blow their opportunities in part because they were trying to live the life before they had the life, burning the candle at both ends every night. If it wasn’t for Phoenix’s early club curfew, there’s no telling when players would have come home.


Because I had a few shells to bust out of, I put my toe in that party water, too. I was just 20 when I was drafted and it didn’t take long to understand that a new kind of woman was interested in me: the sort of woman who in the past had stirred my insecurity. It was like a kid finding Batman’s belt in the lost and found. No point in giving it back until you’ve tried all your new powers. But we forget to ask, will I be able to stop once I’ve tasted these powers?


Superficially, the new bar for women was set based on the physical: some sort of exterior beauty, along with fame, sophistication, wild-child possibility, flirtation with the dark side — all qualities and places I could hardly fathom until I entered the world of a pro athlete.


It didn’t help that minor league players in spring training are in the same venues as the big leaguers. When the day’s training was over, the places to hang out were frequented by all levels of players, and even coaches.


As you climb the baseball ladder, your social confidence explodes. You receive the sort of attention you never did as an acne-ridden honors student. Quite frankly, it is addictive, and when you are in it, there seems to be no end in sight.


But it isn’t rooted in good practices; it’s more like, “flash your badge and they will come.” Your confidence is based on a pack mentality, strong in numbers. You can push aside the inconvenience of having to start a conversation — just by being in the V.I.P. section and offering tickets to the next day’s game, the conversation is started for you. If you have a well-connected agent or an entourage to find you a companion, you might not need conversation at all. At the very least, your newly acquired wealth can keep the drinks flowing to the point where you don’t feel like you’re trying to ask your first-grade crush, Michele Soleimani, to borrow her pencil.


The above dynamic grows exponentially, and before you can blink, your bad relationship habits are written all over the contact list on your cell phone.


So where can you end up?


Tiger Woods country.


In an athlete’s environment, money can be its own pollutant; you can become desensitized to the significance of what it can buy. Typically, if a person spends hundreds of dollars on arrangements to pass time with someone, that someone would be important in his life. But when you have extensive financial resources, it’s easy to send similar signals to people who are meaningful only for a moment. Even worse, you might only concern yourself with what it means to you. As the money flows in, so do the toys — cars, clothes, bling — and once in the stratosphere, a la Tiger, it is amazing how easy it is, if you are not careful and grounded, to start seeing women as another accessory in your life.


The pro athlete’s world is self-centered at best. Schedule is fixed, practice a must, travel a given. Anyone choosing to share that has to get on board and fit in. It can get to a point where the relationship is strictly one-way (the athlete’s way), and the other party becomes insignificant, more a prop than a true relationship partner.


If the player dares to take the next step — marriage — there will likely be a legal team at his disposal (via his agent) that can set up a prenuptial agreement. This negotiation is often dragged out for months as a way of seeing whether the future spouse shows an ugly side during the process. But it’s a red flag for your relationship if you have to resort to such tactics to force the worst in someone, and the prenup becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, set up not just to distribute assets but to deal with an inevitable break-up or philandering. In fact, it might as well be seen as a pre-meditated agreement (I may do all of this dirt, so when I do and you want to leave, I still win because instead of half you only get a check for X dollars and one house).


Reducing a marriage to time, money and X is usually a bad way to start. But in the athletes’ world, relationships can get crafted around their whims. The spiritual significance of an enduring commitment falls by the wayside, giving way to parameters and rules defined by the ego of the player, and maybe his legal and PR team. Although it doesn’t have to be this way, relationships can become part of the world of glitz and illusions.


With that kind of unstable foundation, it’s easy to see how someone like Tiger Woods could see his world come crashing down simply because he hit a fire hydrant.


Tiger Woods has been transformational for the game of golf in so many ways. That is indisputable. But he has proven to be just like every other figure who fell for the little guy with the pitchfork on his shoulder telling him, “It’s all good, no one will know, you can get away with it.” But that little guy on his shoulder didn’t tell him that in the real world, you don’t get away with it because even when you are the only one who knows, that is enough to destroy you. It just will happen from the inside out.

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Mon, 12-28-2009 - 11:00am
Great article! That pretty well explains it. I am reminded of the tv show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"....it all seems so grand...but if those "walls could talk".
 
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Mon, 12-28-2009 - 12:31pm

Maybe they're curious.


Obviously.

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