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We all know that Tom Cruise doesn’t like doctors, modern medicine or people who are anti-Scientology, so after Dr. Drew Pinsky was quoted as saying the actor may have a mental illness, he threw his lawyers on it.

In next month’s Playboy, Dr. Drew says, “A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt. Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood – maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”

So far Cruise himself has failed to comment on the matter, but instead had his attorney speak for him.

“This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels [a Nazi propagandist].”

Yeah well, Dr. P is super yummy hot, and I’ll believe whatever he tells me! Although that may stem from some childhood traum…oh nevermind.

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Dr. Drew Pinsky of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew gave an interview in next month’s Playboy Magazine where he opines that people like Tom Cruise who join a cultish religions like Scientology have a mental illness.

“A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt. Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood – maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”

Tom Cruise went on the offensive with his lawyer Bert Fields who responded by calling Dr. Drew unqualified and compared him to Joseph Goebbels, one of Hitler’s closest associates. Bert tells Page Six:

“This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”

Bert Fields doesn’t know much because Dr. Drew is probably the most qualified person and has been doing this for years. Coincidentally, Tom Cruise plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, a Nazi, in the upcoming movie Valkyrie and the guy is crazy. You don’t need to be a doctor to diagnose that. I’m surprised Tom Cruise hasn’t started eating placenta yet… oh wait.

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“Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” is coming back for a second season on VH1 and is set to premiere in October.

The show will pretty much be the same with a few minor adjustments.

Jeff Conaway will be back seeking treatment after having back surgeries causing him to become reliant on pain meds. Other quasi-celebs looking to clean-up are Sean Stewart, Amber Smith (model/actress), Rodney King, Nikki McKibbon (American Idol), Steven Adler (Guns n Roses) and Tawny Kitaen.

Gary Busey, who claims to have been clean for the past 13 years will also be a part of the show, offering support and sharing his experiences with addiction. Drug counselor Bob Forrest and resident technician Shelly Sprague will also return to be a part of the show this season.

Patients will undergo an intensive 21-day program. Families of the celebs will be more involved this time around and sometimes will undergo treatment themselves.

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Dr. Drew Pinksky at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Hammer‘ – 3/19

Isn’t Dr. Drew the hottness? The older he gets the finer he looks. And did you see him in a short sleeve t-shirt on ‘Celebrity Rehab‘? Wow, he may be 49, but he has quite the body!

Interesting Facts About Dr. Drew:

• Dr. David Drew Pinsky was born September 4, 1958 in Pasadena, California. He is the oldest child with a sister, Dana, now a paralegal, who is six years younger. His mother, Helene, was a singer and actress and his father, Morton, was a doctor.

• Drew used to go on house calls with his father and decided young that he wanted to be a doctor, too.

• Drew attended Polytechnic High School, a private school in Pasadena, before going to Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. In high school, Drew played football and was class president. At Amherst, Drew majored in Biology. He graduated from high school in 1976 and from Amherst in 1980.

• Upon graduation from Amherst, Drew came back to California and attended the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He graduated from USC in 1984. Drew served his residency at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. He was appointed to chief resident at HMH.

• Pinsky is now in private practice in Pasadena where his patients are 60+ years old. He also does rounds at Las Encinas Hospital.

• He started doing the radio version of Loveline in 1983, when he was in his third year of medical school. KROQ was just a small, local station then. Although referred to by patients as Dr. Pinsky, the name “Dr. Drew” came about as he started his radio career. Not wanting to promote his own name or practice, Pinsky took the over-the-air title of Dr. Drew to separate his professional medical and radio careers.

• Dr. Drew met his wife, Susan, at a bar in Laguna Beach, California in the 1980s. They married in 1991 and have triplets; Douglas, Jordan, and Paulina. The triplets were conceived by invitro fertilization.

• In his little spare time, Drew likes to play with his children, read by the pool, play the piano, and sing opera – he’s a baritone with 12 years training.

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On tonight’s episode of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Jeff wants to leave the treatment center because he has no phone privileges. Will Dr. Drew be able to convince him to stay? Check out this video for a sneak peak.

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The investigation into the shocking and untimely death of 25-year-old actor Brad Renfro continues, as the coroner’s office completed his autopsy yesterday. Brad wasn’t super famous, and not a lot is known about his personality in the last few years. But it appears something was going on with him lately. TMZ reports that two days before the actor died, he got a tattoo across his back that read “Fuck Y’all.” That leads one to wonder if his (presumed) overdose was accidental or intentional. The coroner’s office is conducting interviews with Renfro’s friends, though not much has been said about his family.

An autopsy on the former child star was performed Thursday, the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner confirmed. The official cause of death will not be released until toxicology tests come back in about six weeks. Renfro’s body was found by his girlfriend in his Los Angeles home Tuesday morning. Paramedics pronounced him dead upon their arrival.

In addition to performing the autopsy, coroner’s officials have been conducting interviews with people who knew Renfro. Friends of the 25-year-old actor, whose struggles with drug addiction were well publicized, said he was drinking the night before his body was discovered, but it is not yet known whether that contributed to his death.

[From E! News]

Several of Renfro’s former co-stars have made statements regarding his death, and everyone says he was an incredibly nice guy who had a hard battle with addiction. Susan Sarandon, who worked with Renfro on the movie that was his big break – The Client – expressed her condolences.

“It was obvious to everyone that he was the sweetest, most incredibly gifted young actor to come along for some time,” Sarandon said Wednesday in remembrance of her onetime costar. “My heart goes out to the family for their tragic loss.”

[From E! News]

Johnny Knoxville, who costarred with Renfro in 2002 in the movie “Deuces Wild” also talked about what a nice guy Brad was.

“I really liked Brad,” Knoxville said. “[He was] extremely charming and [had] a good heart. Yeah, he got into a little trouble, but he was a sweet, sweet kid. I don’t like to be talking about him in the past tense,” he added. “He was a hometown boy who did real good, and it breaks my heart he is gone. He was so young and so sweet. It makes me very sad.”

[From US Weekly]

Dr. Drew Pinsky, who is a medical doctor and a board-licensed addiction medicine specialist and the host of “Celebrity Rehab,” thinks that the fact that Brad was known to have been drinking the night before he died means he likely was using drugs as well.

The fact that he was drinking could an indication that Renfro, who has battled heroin addiction for several years, took illicit drugs before his death, addiction expert and Celebrity Rehab host Dr. Drew Pinsky tells PEOPLE.

“Just the fact that he was a known addict who was drinking, that’s all you need to know,” Pinsky says. “Renfro was taught in rehab to stay away from booze, and if he was drinking the night before, odds are the coroner will find other substances in his body.”

[From US Weekly]

It seems pretty likely that Brad Renfro died from either drugs or the combination of drugs and alcohol, especially given his history. I think the greater mystery will be whether it was intentional or accidental, and that will obviously take some time for an investigation to figure out. It’s a sad lesson that some other celebrities with addiction issues should pay attention to – just because you’re young and famous doesn’t mean you’re invincible.

Picture note by Jaybird: Brad Renfro and his date at “The Jacket” Los Angeles Premiere in February 2005. Images thanks to PR Photos.

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Dr. Drew Pinsky, my favorite of all television/radio doctors, is going on the attack, and his target is Dr. Phil McGraw. Dr. Phil famously tried to use Britney Spears’ emotional breakdown last week as a vehicle to boost his own show’s ratings. The Spears family requested that he meet privately with Britney. And while Dr. Phil did technically do that, he then issued multiple press releases about it, blabbed to Entertainment Tonight about Brit’s condition, and then said he was going to have the Spears parents on his show. He eventually had to retract that, and the Spears had to issue a statement explaining that they wanted Dr. Phil’s private – not public – help. By most accounts, Dr. Phil just yammered at Britney for fifteen minutes (not the hour long conversation he originally reported) while she packed her belongs to leave the hospital.

Dr. Drew (who is a board-certified MD, an addiction-medicine specialist in full time practice, teaches at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, has been the host of radio’s Loveline since he was a med student in 1983, and is currently the host of VH1’s Celebrity Rehab) has called Dr. Phil out for his unprofessional behavior.

Celebrity doctors Drew Pinsky and Phil McGraw are sparring over the treatment of troubled superstar Britney Spears. Pinsky, who recently treated American Idol singer Jessica Sierra, has attacked the advice McGraw gave Spears when he visited her in hospital following her recent stand-off with police – and challenged the TV talk show host’s right to call himself a doctor.

The addiction specialist claims by getting involved, McGraw has made the situation worse. He says, “It’s never good for an addict when there are multiple sources getting involved. You have to have a unified front. Addicts love a split. It helps them maintain the chaos.

“He’s not a physician. I’m an MD. I went to medical school. He’s a psychologist and I don’t think he has a license in California.”

[From PR-Insider]

Britney clearly needs a specialist, not a general TV-grade psychologist who’s out for their own benefit. And it seems pretty likely that she needs someone with a medical degree, as it seems possible that she has some sort of physical problem going on, whether it’s chemical or biological. Hopefully the biggest disservice Dr. Phil did was to his own career and not to Britney or her family. There’s been a lot of speculation that his actions may have caused an irreparable rift between the Spears.

Dr. Drew made some additional points about Dr. Phil’s lack of professional responsibility.

“My concern was, I don’t know that Dr. Phil has a license in California,” Drew told Access Hollywood. “He’s not on staff at Cedars. Is he interfering with the care of another doctor’s patient? I don’t know.”

As for rumors that Britney’s family plans on having her involuntarily committed, Dr. Drew said that is unlikely to happen. “When a patient doesn’t want help, there’s sort of a fallacy that we can somehow intervene and make them get better,” he said. “It doesn’t work like that, it has to come from within them.”

Dr. Drew said in order to help a person out, sometimes a family has to cut the person off. “So what we try to do is get the family actually to actively disengage with the patient. It is their dance with the patient that allows their disease to go on,” he explained.

[From Access Hollywood]

I really feel like Dr. Phil needs some sort of professional sanctioning. Apparently it is a rule amongst those in the mental health field that one professional doesn’t treat another’s patient without consulting with them first. Otherwise the patient could get a lot of conflicting information, advice, and treatment. I used to find Dr. Phil’s show somewhat entertaining, but frankly his brand of superficial advice just isn’t appropriate in anything other than an hour-long TV format.