Comments on: Nicole Richie BumpWatch 2009

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:29:45 +0000

WOW! are you an idiot! Your wishing her the worst in life, telling people how screwed up she was, and then mentioning that you hope she’ll be o.k. only because you don’t want people to think less of your opinion, “”YOU” NEED TO GET INTO A PROGRAM! or just take an overdose of something it’s up to you!

By: bow chicka wow wow

bow chicka wow wow — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:46:28 +0000

Hmm… me thinks its just her dress doesn’t hang well on her bony ass pelvic bone

By: Allestra

Allestra — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:33:21 +0000

Each person’s addiction is each person’s struggle. Only they know whether or not they will overcome it. Some people’s addictions lay in placing judgement on others. It’s kind of sad.
“I know her too well”. That a bit ostentatious, isn’t it? I highly doubt anyone on this blog has had a one on one conversation with her about her addictions, or lack therof.
I don’t claim to know anyone enough to make a statement like that.
I do know addiction. I’ve been using since I was 13 and yes. People CAN clean up. When they have a reason to. What drags us down is when people place judgement or lack of belief upon our shoulders. The struggle with self doubt is hard enough without others flippantly making comments without having really experienced the flip side of the addiction coin.
Have you met someone who quit smoking and never again picked it up? How about recovering annorexics, or overeaters; those with a compulsion to blog about other people’s lives. Or those who drink coffee, or use other substances. They are all forms of addictions but
in accordance to your belief if they overcome their addictions, they don’t exist. They merely survive until they succumb to their next urge…
We need people’s faith, not their derogatory comments. Or your passment of judgement.
She is having a baby and that alone and of itself has had the power to change even the most hardened person. Give her some credit. She has done whas she set out to do, not like her former counterpart Hilton who professed a changed lifestyle. Actions speak louder than words.
I think I can speak for most other addicts when I say that we can perservere and I have faith that Nicole has, and is doing just that.
You can use this blog to state positive things for those who struggle with so much. Try it out, you may like the fit, Beet.

By: Brynja

Brynja — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:04:11 +0000

* It’s supposed to say both “my mother’s brother and sister” (my aunt and uncle), not that it’s all that relevant, but I thought I better correct it. :)

By: Brynja

Brynja — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:01:40 +0000

I’m pretty tired with this constant going on about people having drug relapses. “I know this girl too well” – Unless there’s something I don’t know (which may very well be), you’re not one of Nicole Richies closest friends and I very much doubt that you know her “too well”.
What’s with the constant pessimism?
Once an addict always an addict – I agree. But although you will forever be an addict, it doesn’t mean that you’ll neccesarily have a relapse. Because you can choose not to act upon that addiction. It takes a lot of strenght, but it is a choice that’s possible to make.
I won’t claim that I am an expert, but speaking from personal expirience (both my mother brother and sister are addicts) I know that it is possible to make that choice. Some people relapse, but some people don’t.
My uncle hasn’t touched a drink in about a decade now and has married a wonderful man, whom he is happy with. He has been hospitalized several times in the past due to his addiction, but he dealt with that addiction and although he lives with his addiction every day, he’s not acting on it. He stays sober. Sure, he was an addict longer than he’s been sober, and sure, there’s plenty of time – he can still have a relapse, but he’s been sober for a decade and the addiction becomes a smaller and smaller part of his life everyday, with each day it becomes easier and yet he remais as cautious as ever.
My aunt on the other hand, keeps falling off the wagon – although she has a lovely family as well. She’s trying to recover and has been for the past 6 months, but it takes time.
Some people do get their happy endings Beet and I wish you’d stop being such a pessimist. It makes me sad how it seems that when it comes to recovering addicts, you never have positive things to say.
She’s having a baby for Christ’s sake – how is this even relevant to the subject at hand?

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:10:36 +0000

I am happy for the both of them.
I just hope that Nicole puts on some more weight again, she is starting to go for the “toothpick” look again.

They are very cute together!

By: dpizzle

dpizzle — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:11:27 +0000

She was an attic at a VERY young age. She is only 27!!!! or 28!!! I think if you clean up young, you’re more likely to stay on track. Lets look at Courtney Love as a reference here. She cleaned up when she wasn’t so young anymore, then relapsed HARD… now there’s someone who will never change!!!

By: Alex S.

Alex S. — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:33:10 +0000

I’m in the camp that people can change, but was she really an addict? Or just a super spoiled teenager who tested her boundaries? Amy Winehouse, Charlie Sheen, and Mickey Rourke…okay, addicts. But Nicole Richie? Not so sure.

By: peace&&green

peace&&green — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:43:02 +0000

it does happen. people do change.
maybe a small percent, but still.
people do change.
i’m at a mainly “ghetto” school,
and one of my close friends has parents
that both used to do alot of pot and partying.
then, they had her, and somehow, both of them quit
all that “bad influence” stuff.
now, both of them are really upstanding citizens.
i hope nicole richie is like that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:41:46 +0000

I know all the common wisdom from recovery programs says ‘no way’ – but just to add my personal experience that addiction has more than one route:

I have an uncle who used to drink a fifth of whisky before work every day, and by his own testimony did scary amounts of cocaine; then when his first child was born and his wife threatened to leave, he quit drinking completely, no AA, nothing, just cold turkey. Went through awful withdrawal and ended up in the hospital. Didn’t drink or drug for 20 years.

Then one day he decided to have a beer. We all cringed. And worried, and prayed.

But you know what? That was 11 years ago. And he has a beer or a glass of wine every once in a while at a family gathering. And it’s not a thing. And for anyone who thinks it probably is a thing but we don’t see it – he now works in a high security situation, so it would show up right away. But also, this is not a person who could hide it, he was a horrible wreck when his addiction had him.

I have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes with Nic. Just wanted to say, there are exceptions to the recovery ‘rules.’

By: mila

mila — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:39:15 +0000

I guess I’m in the minority here but at least I have some experience in this area.
People DO change. And often for their children.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:12:02 +0000

SOME people change.

It could happen.

Some people are strong enough and care enough about the other things (you know, staying alive) that the drugs don’t matter enough… I have faith in her.