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Monday, January 7, 2008
1/8: Jessica Sierra on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Come Thursday at 10 p.m (and surely repeated numerous times thereafter), we will get to view the train wreck that is Jessica Sierra (season four) as she goes through rehab with Dr. Drew (above) on VH1.
ABOVE: A shot of Jessica during rehab from the show. CREDIT: VH1
The Tampa Tribune previewed the show.. I caught a bit of the first episode in advance and Jessica shows up, noting how her mom was a prostitute and died of a drug overdose. This all happens before her relapse that landed her in jail last month. (The scariest part of the first episode is Jeff Conaway, who you might remember as Kenickie in “Grease” in 1978 or on “Taxi,” who is in a wheelchair and is completely out of it.)
The Trib notes that the show reveals Sierra being so depressed and in need of a drink that she says she’d suck on the alcohol swabs.
When she tells therapist Drew “Dr. Drew” Pinsky that she will never be able to hear her mother express love or regret, he tells her that she has to find a way to forgive and get on with her life.
“I see you clinging to your resentments, and resentments will kill you,” Pinsky says.
“I’m just glad she is alive,” Pinsky said in a recent telephone interview. “Relapse is part of the addiction problem. She needs treatment.”
He told Sierra that she is on a collision course with death and that she is on track to repeat what happened to her mother. “People will see that when she is off of drugs, Jessica is a very different person,” Pinsky says.
Most addicts relapse. Of the celebrities there, she was the only novice.
She remains in jail as I write this, supposedly pregnant and a porn tape on the way.
On the brighter side, with Fantasia gone, LaKisha Jones joins “The Color Purple” as Sofia on Wednesday.
And Carrie Underwood has her sixth top 20 country hit with “All American Girl,” the second single off her current album. Of her first five singles, four went No. 1 and only “Don’t Forget To Remember Me” (a relatively forgettable song) fell short at No. 2. I would put good money down that “All American Girl” will be her fifth No. 1 single. It’s in fact a better song than “So Small,” her last single and should help fuel “Carnival Ride” to 2 million copies sold. (It’s up to about 1.7 million).
Also, the first audition episodes will be Philadelphia January 15 and Dallas January 16. No date yet for Atlanta auditions but I’ll post that as soon as I hear.
