Did anyone catch this new reality show on VH1? I caught it last night and Jaimee Foxworth is one of the celebs who seeks to rehabilitate herself from her addiction.

She talked abt smoking marijuana several times a day, sometimes every hour, every day since she was 16 years old. They showed her with her friends and she was smoking for a home video camera.

She is working with Dr. Drew Pinsky at a Pasadena facility. Other celebs include Brigitte Nielsen, former wrestler Chyna, Jeff Conaway from Taxi and a few others.

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/celebrity_rehab_with_dr_drew/series.jhtml

What a shame. She's about my age, too, which makes it even sadder. :(

It is sad, but hopeful, considering they are there on their own will, knowing they need the help. They are ADMITTING they have a problem. That is the first step. This is the kind of facility that celebs need to attend when they have addictions. Not those fancy places like PROMISES, that only promise you will return when you return to doing drugs or alcohol. :rolleyes: Rehab is hard work. It is not abt playing tennis or relaxing in the sun.

A key factor in her smoking was that she was fired from FM, she was very depressed.

You can't blame a tv show for her drug problem. She also blamed her parents for accessing her $50,000.00 trust fund, money she earned from being an actress. A judge ruled her parents could use that money to help them with their financial issues. She had no skills other than being an actress. Well, you know what, many people lose their job, they sometimes have to start at the bottom, but most of them don't turn to drug use.

I am not finding fault with her, I am merely saying to place blame on losing her job on a tv show, is something that many addicts do. They place blame on others and not themselves.

Glad to see she is getting herself better. Her mother appeared on the show as well.

Well, she shouldn't have lost her job in the first place. They couldn't develop her character but they could add people like 3J or Greta. That's B.S!

That's so sad about Jamie. I hope she can beat this addiction.

Family Matters could have expanded her part though. They didn't even try. They had her paired up with ritchie when she should have had more dialogue with Laura.

And she went into porn too. :(

Well, Irene, I actually blame the show for her terrible years. Some people can handle losing a job or being turned down like that without doing drugs or becoming promiscuous or anything like that, but Jaimee obviously couldn't. Maybe her parents didn't help either, but I really blame the show the most.

By the way, when was her mother on the show?

You can't blame a tv show for her drug problem. She also blamed her parents for accessing her $50,000.00 trust fund, money she earned from being an actress. A judge ruled her parents could use that money to help them with their financial issues. She had no skills other than being an actress. Well, you know what, many people lose their job, they sometimes have to start at the bottom, but most of them don't turn to drug use.

I am not finding fault with her, I am merely saying to place blame on losing her job on a tv show, is something that many addicts do. They place blame on others and not themselves.

Glad to see she is getting herself better. Her mother appeared on the show as well.


I'm sitting home and flipping through the channels and I was SHOCKED to see her on this show. I was wondering why in the hell would she be on this show, And now I know.

You are so right she has no one to blame for her addiction but herself. There are plenty of people in this world who have lost their jobs, cars, homes and family all at once, and they do not turn to drugs. They might get depressed but they don't turn to drugs. So you can't put blame on others.

I'm sitting home and flipping through the channels and I was SHOCKED to see her on this show. I was wondering why in the hell would she be on this show, And now I know.

You are so right she has no one to blame for her addiction but herself. There are plenty of people in this world who have lost their jobs, cars, homes and family all at once, and they do not turn to drugs. They might get depressed but they don't turn to drugs. So you can't put blame on others.
:clap AMEN!!!

Really now, even if other people wouldn't have started with drugs and porn because of this, Jaimee obviously did. She was thirteen or fourteen years old, a very sensitive age, and they treated her like crap. It's no wonder that she got depressed, and when some people are depressed, they might do stupid things. If only the people behind the show had been able to work on the Judy character, Jaimee's life would have been so much better.

Really now, even if other people wouldn't have started with drugs and porn because of this, Jaimee obviously did. She was thirteen or fourteen years old, a very sensitive age, and they treated her like crap. It's no wonder that she got depressed, and when some people are depressed, they might do stupid things. If only the people behind the show had been able to work on the Judy character, Jaimee's life would have been so much better.
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!:clap

I'm sitting home and flipping through the channels and I was SHOCKED to see her on this show. I was wondering why in the hell would she be on this show, And now I know.

You are so right she has no one to blame for her addiction but herself. There are plenty of people in this world who have lost their jobs, cars, homes and family all at once, and they do not turn to drugs. They might get depressed but they don't turn to drugs. So you can't put blame on others.
Jaimee is not placing the blame on others though. Furienna is. Jaimee knows like so many other people in rehab YOU CAN'T BLAME OTHERS FOR YOUR ADDICTION. Once you accept that fact, then you can begin the road to sobriety. Having had someone in my life who had an addiction, and going to Al-Anon for almost a year to better understand the trials and tribulations of addiction (drugs or alcohol) I know that blame is the game that addicts do. They blame their families, their spouses, their friends, their lack of work or not finding work, they blame the system, they blame EVERYBODY BUT THE RIGHT BODY: THEMSELVES.

It is good to know Jaimee is not blaming the show (Family Matters) for her fall, but the fact that she had decided to make choices at a desperate time in her life that led her to rehab.

Jaimee is not placing the blame on others though. Furienna is. Jaimee knows like so many other people in rehab YOU CAN'T BLAME OTHERS FOR YOUR ADDICTION. Once you accept that fact, then you can begin the road to sobriety. Having had someone in my life who had an addiction, and going to Al-Anon for almost a year to better understand the trials and tribulations of addiction (drugs or alcohol) I know that blame is the game that addicts do. They blame their families, their spouses, their friends, their lack of work or not finding work, they blame the system, they blame EVERYBODY BUT THE RIGHT BODY: THEMSELVES.

It is good to know Jaimee is not blaming the show (Family Matters) for her fall, but the fact that she had decided to make choices at a desperate time in her life that led her to rehab.

I know, I was just reiterating what you were saying in your post. It just sounds stupid to blame someone else for your problems or your addiction, and SOME PEOPLE just don't get that.

It's like if someone works at Target, they've been working there for 10 years. They know the attendance policy but yet they've been calling in for every week so eventually they get fired. Now who’s to blame? Target for firing them Or the individual to blame for getting fired?

I know, I was just reiterating what you were saying in your post. It just sounds stupid to blame someone else for your problems or your addiction, and SOME PEOPLE just don't get that.

It's like if someone works at Target, they've been working there for 10 years. They know the attendance policy but yet they've been calling in for every week so eventually they get fired. Now who’s to blame? Target for firing them Or the individual to blame for getting fired?
Oh yeah, I know you agreed with me. My post does sound like that, sorry. :crazy: I was merely adding to what you and I were agreeing on.

Can you imagine every employer worrying abt how someone is going to take the news abt them being discharged? Ridiculous. Like the producers at FAMILY MATTERS owed Jamiee a load of gratitude and keep her on the show merely to avoid any problems she may have. She was an actress. The show no longer needed or wanted her. They made the mistake of creating that character and had nowhere to go with it. Sorry, but that is show business and many actors and actresses know the business can be fickle. Jaimee was a young girl and didn't know, but she had family and they should have steered in a better direction with her education. Her family had financial problems and resorted to using her $50,000 to save themselves. Sounds like her family was not too astute.

Oh yeah, I know you agreed with me. My post does sound like that, sorry. :crazy: I was merely adding to what you and I were agreeing on.

Can you imagine every employer worrying abt how someone is going to take the news abt them being discharged? Ridiculous. Like the producers at FAMILY MATTERS owed Jamiee a load of gratitude and keep her on the show merely to avoid any problems she may have. She was an actress. The show no longer needed or wanted her. They made the mistake of creating that character and had nowhere to go with it. Sorry, but that is show business and many actors and actresses know the business can be fickle. Jaimee was a young girl and didn't know, but she had family and they should have steered in a better direction with her education. Her family had financial problems and resorted to using her $50,000 to save themselves. Sounds like her family was not too astute.

When she was Oprah she said that she was the bread winner of her family and that when she lost her job on FM she just became depressed because she had all of that weight on her shoulders. That's a lot for a 12/13 yr old to have on her mind.

Now that would drive me to drink :lol: But not to porn and smoking twigs and things

When she was Oprah she said that she was the bread winner of her family and that when she lost her job on FM she just became depressed because she had all of that weight on her shoulders. That's a lot for a 12/13 yr old to have on her mind.

Now that would drive me to drink :lol: But not to porn and smoking twigs and things
You are right, imagine being 12-13 and having the burden of supporting your family? Like I said, sounds like the family was not doing their share to support themselves, they were putting that on their child. What family would do that in their right minds? Crazy a$$ suckers. :crazy:

:lol: at your comment abt drinking and smoking twigs. :lol::lol::lol:

But no matter how you turn it, they did a terrible thing to Jaimee. Even if she hadn't started with drugs and porn, even if her life would have turned out perfect after she was fired, even if her parents also are to blame for how her life went down, that was just a very cruel way to treat a thirteen-year-old girl. Not to mention that it didn't make sense to not work on the Judy character. It wasn't like I missed her, when the 5th season suddenly started without her, but I remembered her and felt sorry for her. They should have given Judy more than two sub-plots. They should have worked on her as a teenage character. But oh no, instead they had to invent Stephan and 3J. That was just stupid! I'm sorry, but as much as I like this show, this is one of the two things about it, that simply annoys the heck out of me.

But no matter how you turn it, they did a terrible thing to Jaimee. Even if she hadn't started with drugs and porn, even if her life would have turned out perfect after she was fired, even if her parents also are to blame for how her life went down, that was just a very cruel way to treat a thirteen-year-old girl. Not to mention that it didn't make sense to not work on the Judy character. It wasn't like I missed her, when the 5th season suddenly started without her, but I remembered her and felt sorry for her. They should have given Judy more than two sub-plots. They should have worked on her as a teenage character. But oh no, instead they had to invent Stephan and 3J. That was just stupid! I'm sorry, but as much as I like this show, this is one of the two things about it, that simply annoys the heck out of me.
My sentiments exactly abt why I turned my back on the show when they started turning the show into THE URKEL SHOW. The family was almost on the backburner.

Still, the producers didn't owe her anything. Child actors are treated no better simply because they are children. They suffer the pitfalls like everyone else. I don't expect a teen actor to deal with it better than an adult, but I do expect when parent(s) put their children in show business, to make sure they are doing it for reasons other than "support our a$$e$". Jaimee's family had a duty and owed her that duty to make sure they supported their children and not rely on her to bring home the bacon. Did they really expect her to be an actress forever? That is one reason why it is important to have something to fall back on for the times that your career stumbles. Danica McKellar from the Wonder Years is a great example of a child actor who continued her studies and attended UCLA.

Even if they had given Jaimee's character more work, that doesn't guarantee she would not have become depressed, turned to marijuana and porn. How many successful actors/actresses turn to drugs and/or alcohol even when they are at the top? Too many. Just like being out of work can cause you to spiral downward, so can success.

I believe her mother and manager were trying to be greedy, so that's why she was let go from the show.

My sentiments exactly abt why I turned my back on the show when they started turning the show into THE URKEL SHOW. The family was almost on the backburner.

Still, the producers didn't owe her anything. Child actors are treated no better simply because they are children. They suffer the pitfalls like everyone else. I don't expect a teen actor to deal with it better than an adult, but I do expect when parent(s) put their children in show business, to make sure they are doing it for reasons other than "support our a$$e$". Jaimee's family had a duty and owed her that duty to make sure they supported their children and not rely on her to bring home the bacon. Did they really expect her to be an actress forever? That is one reason why it is important to have something to fall back on for the times that your career stumbles. Danica McKellar from the Wonder Years is a great example of a child actor who continued her studies and attended UCLA.

Even if they had given Jaimee's character more work, that doesn't guarantee she would not have become depressed, turned to marijuana and porn. How many successful actors/actresses turn to drugs and/or alcohol even when they are at the top? Too many. Just like being out of work can cause you to spiral downward, so can success.
Well put, Irene. Even if she had stayed on the show the whole time, she might still have turned out this way. You never know. Like you said, there are no guarantees, especially in show biz.

I have nothing against Steve Urkel, except that he couldn't let go off Laura. I've always had a soft spot for him, since I like nerds. So I don't mind the general direction the show took. And considering the fact that Steve was this show's gold mine, I understand that they turned it into "The Urkel show". But there should still have been room for Judy in the show somewhere. I would rather have had seen some episodes focused on her as a teenager than for example those lame plotlines about Stephan.