Mel Gibson has checked himself into rehab
January 1st, 1970
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Mel Gibson has checked himself into rehab, the troubled actor’s rep Alan Neirob, exclusively tells Star Magazine. “He is in a program of recovery at this time,” Neirob says.
Plus, Chris Prentiss, a neighbor of Gibson’s and the co-founder of celebrity treatment centre Passages in Malibu, Calif., tells Star: “I understand he has gone to a treatment center. The center that I’ve heard he’s checked himself into follows the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program. And I don’t believe that will help him.”
Prentiss - who refused to name the rehab center he’s heard Gibson is in - adds: “He needs individual intense therapy by a team of people who know what they are looking for in causes in alcoholism. There are only four causes and it is one or more of those four causes that are causing him to be out of control.”
“First, everyone who is using alcohol excessively has a chemical imbalance. The second is events of the past that we can not cope with like the loss of a loved one or it could be guilt. We may have done something years ago that we can’t forgive ourselves for. The third one is current conditions we can’t cope with like failing marriage or business of lack of respect. The last thing is things we believe that are not true. And in Mel’s case I know one of them. He believes he has the disease of alcoholism which prevents from him from looking for the real reason why he drinks and alcoholism is not a disease. That is the current thinking today. Alcoholism is a symptom and we treat the underlining causes.
‘Statements that Mel Gibson made are a result of alcohol changing Mel Gibson into that kind of a person.
“The Mel Gibson that we all know is not that kind of a person. When alcohol enters his system he becomes an out of control, belligerent, nasty guy. It’s not Mel Gibson’s life. Most of time, 99.9 per cent of time he is fine upstanding gentlemanly person.
“I wish Mel Gibson well and I would like to see him get the help deserves. He is a fine guy and he should have the kind of help that will truly help him.”