Catching up with the teen stars of yesterday can be less a pleasant trip down memory lane and more a gloomy revelation of how far that cute kid has fallen. After they have reached the heights of celebrity at an early age, the remainder of a teenstar’s life can turn into a frenzied grasping to keep what they attained at such a young age. It’s a lot of pressure to put on a young adult and the stress often leads to addiction – and then to rehab. At least that’s the case with Sean Kanan, who became famous as the teenaged star of Karate Kid III, and who is now battling an addiction to prescription painkillers.
Former X Factor contestant Rowetta Satchell has admitted that most of the time she was on our screens she was out of her mind drunk.
Rowetta starred in the first series of the ITV show back in 2004 and admitted that the stress of placing herself in such a pressurised environment ended up with her drinking at least a bottle of whiskey a day.
Rowetta, 42, told The Sun: “I didn’t know what X Factor was going to be. It was the first series and the first show where there was no age limit so I went for it. I was so nervous waiting for my audition, I drank for four hours, so I was a mess. I don’t remember anything — all I know is that I really made a fool of myself.”
Last night Bay City Roller star, Les McKeown was the focus of Living’s new reality TV series, Rehab.
Les has spent decades addicted to alcohol and during treatment for his problem he admitted that many of his emotional problems stem from a date rape incident which occurred when he was only 17 year old.
“Date rape is the best way I can think of to explain how I was cajoled into a situation through drugs into having sex with another man,” he explained.
“It happened in America in a hotel room. I was given Quaaludes, a drug for lowering your inhibitions and making you horny.
Entertainment TV channel LIVING has commissioned Initial, an Endemol company, to produce a bold new series titled, ‘Rehab’.
The exclusive new series puts ‘rehab’ under the microscope by charting the journeys of seven fallen stars as they prepare to combat their various destructive addictions, at the established rehabilitation clinic Passages in Malibu, California.
