Fw: Griffith's addiction to pain killers

[Guest guest]

Gee, neck problems.....sounds familiar doesn't it! And not being able to

get pregnant......gosh, I wonder why? You don't suppose those darned

implants has anything to do with this whole turn of her life, do you? :

The denial in Hollywood is amazing.

Patty

From: ilena rose <ilena@...>

Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 3:44 PM

Subject: Griffith's addiction to pain killers

> ~~~ you may remember, she had bad infections when she got her implants ...

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> NY POST/By BILL HOFFMANN

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> Griffith says her crippling addiction to painkillers was so bad,

she

> couldn't even pass a drugstore without wanting to march in and pick up

some

> pills.

>

> " My disease was raging and running my life. It takes over your thinking, "

> Griffith tells the February issue of Redbook.

>

> " You'll say, 'I'm not going to have any. I'm not going to have any.' And

then

> you drive past a pharmacy and you go, 'I'm going to go in there and call

my

> doctor and I'm going to get some.' "

>

> The sexy blond star bared her agony two months after entering rehab to

beat her

> dependence on the prescription painkillers she was taking for a neck

problem.

>

> " They don't tell you they're addictive. [but] when you're an alcoholic and

drug

> addict, like I am, it's just really dangerous. I got caught up in it

again, "

> she tells the mag.

>

> And while her eight days at the Freeman Hospital in California

helped

> her kick the habit, it wasn't easy.

>

> " I detoxed like a junkie. I was in there with heroin addicts who don't

have a

> prayer unless they can turn it over to a higher power. And I am the same

as

> them, " Griffith says.

>

> The star of " Working Girl " and " Something Wild " also tells Redbook she's

> desperately trying to get pregnant again by her third husband,

> Banderas, to have a fourth child. They already have a daughter.

>

> " It hasn't worked out that way. It's so weird - you used to be able to

look at

> me and I would be pregnant. It's been almost a year that we've been

trying, "

> she says.

>

> Griffith admits she's very protective of Banderas - and even erupted into

a

> jealous rage the day he filmed a torrid love scene with Angelina Jolie for

his

> new movie, " Original Sin. "

>

> " I knew was going to be naked in bed with her. How could you not

feel

> funny? " she tells Redbook.

>

> " But comes home to me every night. He's with me in my bed making

love

> to me every night. So I have to be a grown-up and say, 'OK, this is what

we do

> for a living.' "

>

> Griffith, 43, also has a secret worry that her spouse, who's three years

her

> junior, might one day pack his bags and run into the arms of a younger

woman.

>

> " I try to work out if I possibly can so I can keep my ass high enough so

it

> still looks good, because I'm married to Banderas, " she says.

>

> " I have those fears like, 'God, I don't want to lose him'. . . I don't

know for

> sure that I'm going to be able to keep . I try my best. "

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