Corey Haim: Mom Speaks Out
03-13-2010, 01:11 AM
Dr. Drew Could Have Helped Corey Haim, Says Dr. Drew
Posted Mar 11th 2010 5:09PM by Bob Sassone
Not sure which TV doctor/psychologist/superhero has a bigger ego, Dr. Drew or Dr. Phil, but this week I'm going with the former. Dr. Drew Pinsky says that he and people from his show 'Celebrity Rehab' reached out to Corey Haim several times over the past few years and every time Haim angrily rejected their pleas for him to be on the show, saying that he didn't need help.
Now, beyond the fact that Dr. Drew is assuming that Haim died of a drug overdose before autopsy results are even complete*, I think he doesn't quite understand (or maybe he does and doesn't care) how much of an exploitative guy he is. So Haim didn't want to appear on your show where you get celebrities to look awful while they live in a house and try to break their addictions? Is that surprising? If I was an addict I wouldn't want to do that show either.
There seems to be some bizarre notion that because people like Dr. Drew and Dr. Phil are on TV, their medical credentials must be better than other people in their profession (after all, they wouldn't be on TV if they weren't the best!).
How many experts in that field are there in the U.S.? Thousands and thousands? Why do people have to talk to the ones that are on television? Not only might you not be getting the best help, you're opening yourself up to public ridicule and reality show exploitation (didn't Haim already go through a horrible reality show experience with 'The Two Coreys?'). I'm sure Dr. Drew sincerely wants to help these people, but there's an exploitation factor here too.
Should Haim have gotten help? Of course. Maybe he even tried. But that help didn't have to be televised on VH1.
Yes, we can all speculate about what happened and we might even be right, but I think it's wrong for someone in Dr. Drew's position to do it publicly.
I didnt know or hear about that.
Posted Mar 11th 2010 5:09PM by Bob Sassone
Not sure which TV doctor/psychologist/superhero has a bigger ego, Dr. Drew or Dr. Phil, but this week I'm going with the former. Dr. Drew Pinsky says that he and people from his show 'Celebrity Rehab' reached out to Corey Haim several times over the past few years and every time Haim angrily rejected their pleas for him to be on the show, saying that he didn't need help.
Now, beyond the fact that Dr. Drew is assuming that Haim died of a drug overdose before autopsy results are even complete*, I think he doesn't quite understand (or maybe he does and doesn't care) how much of an exploitative guy he is. So Haim didn't want to appear on your show where you get celebrities to look awful while they live in a house and try to break their addictions? Is that surprising? If I was an addict I wouldn't want to do that show either.
There seems to be some bizarre notion that because people like Dr. Drew and Dr. Phil are on TV, their medical credentials must be better than other people in their profession (after all, they wouldn't be on TV if they weren't the best!).
How many experts in that field are there in the U.S.? Thousands and thousands? Why do people have to talk to the ones that are on television? Not only might you not be getting the best help, you're opening yourself up to public ridicule and reality show exploitation (didn't Haim already go through a horrible reality show experience with 'The Two Coreys?'). I'm sure Dr. Drew sincerely wants to help these people, but there's an exploitation factor here too.
Should Haim have gotten help? Of course. Maybe he even tried. But that help didn't have to be televised on VH1.
Yes, we can all speculate about what happened and we might even be right, but I think it's wrong for someone in Dr. Drew's position to do it publicly.
I didnt know or hear about that.
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