Rocker Billie Joe Armstrong is entering rehab.
The Green Day singer is set to undergo treatment for substance abuse, a spokesperson for the group has confirmed. The band has also postponed several upcoming promotional appearances.
"Green Day wants to apologize to those they offended at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. The band regretfully must postpone some of their upcoming promotional appearances," the Grammy award-winning singer's representative told TMZ.
The group's front man had a very public meltdown on stage in Las Vegas over the weekend, where the group was performing at the star-studded iHeartRadio Music Festival. The 40-year-old singer was videotaped screaming profanities and slamming Justin Bieber during the band's performance at the annual three-day festival before violently smashing his guitar on-stage, complaining their performance had been cut short.
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Amanda Bynes’ Parents Move to LA
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Amanda Bynes' parents have moved to Los Angeles to help her get her life back on track. The family of the troubled actress - who recently had her car impounded and her driving license suspended - have already leased out their home in Cedar Park, Texas, and intend to sell it so they can be by her side, according to gossip website TMZ.
Sources close to the family say they have no plans to pursue a conservatorship - which would give them legal control over Amanda - but they want to be on-hand to support their daughter.
However, there was some good news for the former Nickelodeon star after a Beverly Hills judge ruled Wednesday that she won't have to post the $50,000 bail for her April driving under the influence (DUI) case. The district attorney argued that Amanda - who failed to show up to court - should be ordered to put up $50,000 bail pending her October 29 trial, saying the bail was needed "for risk of public safety.
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Amanda Bynes Locks Herself in Changing Room
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Amanda Bynes locked herself in a store changing room for nearly two hours and refused to come out.
The troubled actress - who recently had her car impounded and her driving license suspended - caused concern to shopkeepers at the Kin store in West Hollywood who thought she was "doing drugs" when she refused to come out for a considerable amount of time yesterday afternoon.
"I was so worried about her. I didn't know what she was doing in the dressing room. I didn't know if she was overdosing or doing drugs or what," a clerk told a source. According to TMZ.com, Amanda made a banging noise on the inside of the changing room every 10 minutes for one hour and 45 minutes. When they asked her to come out, she refused, telling them she needed "more time."
She eventually exited and purchased a pair of stilettos and some sunglasses, but as she was going to leave she realized she had not paid for a bathing suit under her dress, which she forgot was on and bought while still wearing. Amanda eventually left when those in the shop called a taxi for her, as she is currently banned from driving.
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Richie Sambora Inspired by Daughter to Get Sober
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Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora says his daughter was his motivation to get sober. The rock icon has admitted that 15-year-old Ava - his child with ex-wife Heather Locklear - was a "big part" of his decision to go to rehab to be treated for alcoholism for a second time last year.
"She (Ava) was like an angel to me, man ... that was the catalyst for me actually getting sober," he told Classic Rock. The 53-year-old musician continued, "Luckily I wasn't that guy who lost his band, his family, his house and his job. I wasn't a victim."
His first spell in rehab was in 2007, after the death of his father Adam and amidst the breakdown of his marriage to actress Heather. Richie blames being in a rock band for his substance abuse problems, which included heavy drinking and eventually a reliance on painkillers.
"I was in a rock 'n' roll band! Drinking was a badge of honor," he explained.
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Simon Cowell Suffered a Breakdown
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The TV mogul suffered a collapse as the strains of managing his working life - which includes a portfolio of shows including The X Factor in the UK and US, Britain's Got Talent and America's Got Talent - became too much for him. Simon reportedly had to take a step back from auditions for this year's 'X Factor' in the US after he feared his lifestyle was making him into a "weird vampire."
In an updated new chapter of his book, Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell, Tom Bower says the TV star told his close friend and X Factor colleague Louis Walsh, "I don't want any more tablets and pills. I'm cutting out the lot, including cigarettes. I desperately need peace. I'm craving normality. I've got to work out my demons and come out of it. I have to get back to where I was years ago. I had to stop reading texts at three in the morning and making calls later and later. I wanted peace."
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LeAnn Rimes ‘Worried’ Eddie is Cheating
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The "Can't Fight the Moonlight" hitmaker - who checked into rehab to deal with "anxiety and stress" late last month, one day after her 30th birthday - has reportedly got
"major insecurity issues" and is feeling "stressed" about still being branded a home-wrecker for embarking on a relationship with Eddie in 2009 while she was married to chef Dean Sheremet and he was wed to Brandi Glanville.
"LeAnn has had major insecurity issues since she first got together with Eddie. She's been stressed about always being called a home-wrecker and also worried that Eddie is cheating on her. She's been on a downward spiral," a friend of the couple told Us Weekly.
But LeAnn has surprisingly gained support from Brandi - whom Eddie eventually left to be with the 30-year-old singer in 2009 after they met on the set of TV movie Northern Lights - who hopes her former love rival finds "what she is looking for" in the 30-day in-patient facility.
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Demi Lovato Regrets Her Tattoos
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The 20-year-old star admits she has considered having her body art removed by laser, but has decided not to worry too much about them until she is much older. "I've thought about it before because, you know, when I get older I don't know if I want to have rock and roll on my middle finger. I'm young and I can rock it now and when I get older I can worry about it later," she said.
Speaking of one inking, a tattoo of her friend's lips on her wrist, she added, "It was just a spur of the moment, stupid decision."
In late 2010, the X Factor judge checked into rehab to be treated for an eating disorder and self-harm issues and she admits it was a "relief" to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder as it meant she wasn't "crazy. "I was like, 'Oh my gosh, that means I'm not really crazy, there's a reason.' And it was just so awesome to be able to pinpoint a diagnosis for the reasons why I was extremely happy and in, like, a euphoric state, and the next month I was in, like, a deep depression. I had everything great in my life I had nothing to complain about but I wasn't happy," she said in an interview.
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The Talk presenter admitted she has felt guilty ever since Jack found out he has the disease and has started fussing over him, even though she knows it annoys him. Speaking during the Judges' Houses stage of the X Factor, she said, "You go through the guilt, you go through the 'Is it me? Was it me?' and you through the family tree going 'Who died of what? Where did this come from?' I've become even more of a control freak. I think I I'm driving him nuts."
Sharon also admitted she panics over the smallest things now and even worries if Jack gets a headache. "He's got a headache and I'm all like 'Go to the doctors! I'll drive you myself!' And I'm fussing and asking him what he's eating and all of that kind of thing. He's as good as married and he has a baby and he left home about a hundred years ago and I'm still fussing over him. I think I'm driving him mad but that's what mothers are for," she added.
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Michael Jackson Needed a ‘Psychiatric Intervention’
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Kenny Ortega - who had known Michael for over 20 years before his death from a Propofol overdose in June 2009 - emailed tour promoters AEG voicing his concerns about the singer's "paranoia, anxiety and obsessive behavior," but was ignored.
In emails obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Kenny wrote to Randy Phillips, the chief executive of concert division AEG Live, "here are strong signs of paranoia, anxiety and obsessive-like behavior. I think the best thing we can do is to get a top Psychiatrist in to evaluate him ASAP. It is like there are two people in there. One [deep inside] trying to hold on to what he was and still can be and not wanting us to quit on him, the other in this weakened and troubled state. I believe we need professional guidance in this matter."
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Alanis Morissette Had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Due to Fame
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The "Ironic" singer shot to fame when she was 20 with her hit album Jagged Little Pill - which was released in 1995 and has sold over 33 million copies worldwide - but she found the fame which came with it particularly overwhelming and she still sometimes struggles to cope.
"I still have PTSD from the Jagged Little Pill era. It was a profound violation. It felt like every millisecond I was attempting to set a boundary and say no and people were breaking into my hotel rooms and going through my suitcase and pulling my hair and jumping on my car. There was a period of time during the Jagged Little Pill era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space."
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