You Need Help! 20 Stars Who Faced Interventions

With news that Brandi Glanville brushed off an intervention from her co-stars, we take a look back at other instances in which wayward Hollywood souls were offered a helping hand from concerned friends.

Cory Monteith: The Glee star’s co-star and girlfriend, Lea Michele, staged an intervention for him a few months before his tragic July 13 death from a lethal combination of heroin and alcohol, sources told US Weekly. Michele asked show creator Ryan Murphy to approach Monteith with her. “She told Cory, ‘Clean up or I’m out of here,” a source close to the actress told the magazine. Monteith underwent a 30-day rehab program this April, but sadly, it wasn’t enough and he was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room.

https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/07/cory-monteith-death-lea-michele-intervention/

http://www.wetpaint.com/glee/articles/2013-07-14-cory-monteith-death-rehab-timeline

Amanda Bynes: The wayward starlet known for her arrests and wacky tweets faced a 2010 intervention attempt from friends and family, People magazine reported—but the star rejected any overtures. She “was paranoid and refused it all,” an eyewitness told People. This summer, Bynes was involuntarily committed to a psych ward after months of erratic behavior, including allegedly starting a fire in someone’s driveway. Her mother Lynn was granted temporary conservatorship over Bynes and is monitoring her psych ward care.

https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/06/amanda-bynes-intervention-friends-family-mental-illness/

Whitney Houston: In a 2012 interview with Anderson Cooper, the late songbird’s The Bodyguard co-star and friend, Kevin Costner, said he was asked to write letters to Whitney urging her to change her lifestyle. “When someone said, ‘Would you write someone a letter to someone who you know is having trouble?’ I did, there were two occasions,” Costner revealed about the singer, who died in 2012 at age 48 with cocaine in her system. “I saw pretty much what everyone else saw… I don't know if those letters were ever read.”

https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/04/kevin-costner-whitney-houston-drug-addiction-letters/

Leif Garrett: The 1970s teen idol got an intervention courtesy of the VH1 show, Celebrity Rehab. But at first the rocker, who was arrested on suspicion for possessing heroin, was reluctant. "I didn't want to have a camera stuck in my face while I was trying to kick," Garrett told the L.A. Times in 2011. "I thought, 'It's nobody's freaking business.' But I finally came to the realization: It's everybody's business, because it's been in the papers. Instead of paying to go to rehab, why not get paid for it? And show the world, at the same time, that I am no longer using?" So far, Garrett has stuck with sobriety.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/02/entertainment/la-ca-celebrity-rehab-20110102

Heath Ledger: The Dark Knight star’s former fiancée, Michelle Williams, desperately tried to help the star get help to battle his addictions during his final days, sources said. Before Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose in 2008 at his New York apartment, Williams was reportedly working with others in Heath's life to stage an intervention and get him into rehab.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-541239/Heath-Ledgers-ex-fiancee-desperately-tried-rehab-died-says-new-report.html

Jodie Sweetin: The former Full House actress, who admitted in 2006 that she once had a daily methamphetamine habit – and later wrote a memoir about her drug and alcohol nightmare -- reportedly got an intervention from her co-stars. After Full House ended in 1995, the child star tried to pursue a normal life but faced unemployment and began experimenting with meth. After a three-day "lost" weekend, reportedly followed by an intervention staged by her former Full House costars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, John Stamos and Bob Saget, Sweetin checked herself in to the Promises rehab facility for six weeks of intense treatment in 2007. While The National Enquirer reported this summer that she was going into rehab again, Sweetin adamantly denied it.

https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/07/jodie-sweetien-full-house-rehab-drops-bid-full-custody-daughter/

http://www.today.com/id/33585071/ns/today-today_books/t/ex-full-house-star-i-faked-being-drugs/

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1155193,00.html

http://www.tmz.com/2013/07/31/jodie-sweetin-not-rehab-divorce-morty/

Michael Jackson: The King of Pop’s brother Randy told jurors in Michael Jackson’s wrongful death trial this year that the pop star had a secret near-overdose in 2005 and that he deflected ten drug interventions made by concerned family members. Those included an intervention attempt in a New York hotel in 2000, about "four or five" surprise trips to Neverland Ranch and during a meeting at Michael’s Las Vegas residence after his 2005 child molestation trial. Randy Jackson said his brother didn't like the interference and isolated himself from the family.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/michael-jackson-overdosed-family-staged-10-drug-interventions-brother-article-1.1423100?pgno=1#ixzz2dxeogM5g

Mindy McCready: The country singer, who appeared on the VH1 show Celebrity Rehab, shot herself to death earlier this year. After McCready’s boyfriend, David Wilson, shot himself to death and her behavior was erratic, her father intervened. Tim McCready filed a petition approval by a judge and she was committed to a treatment facility. Tim said in his petition that his daughter “sleeps all day. Drinks all night and is taking Rx drugs. Not bathing or even helping take care of her 2 children.” Sadly, Mindy walked away from the rehab center several days later and killed herself on the same front porch where her boyfriend had died.

http://thestir.cafemom.com/entertainment/150935/singer_mindy_mccreadys_latest_rehab

Taylor Armstrong: On this season’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Armstrong went on a vacation without knowing where her daughter, Kennedy, was. So Kim and Kyle Richards went to her house to confront her about her drinking. Armstrong explained she was feeling terrible after her husband Russell’s suicide and she was waking up “in the darkest place.” But Taylor didn’t go to rehab and appears to have put her problems behind her, recently getting engaged to boyfriend John Bluher.

http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/02/25/rhobh-recap-kim-richards-taylor-armstrong-intervention/

Jael Strauss: The former America’s Next Top Model contestant from 2007 battled crystal meth addiction-- and her family turned to Dr. Phil McGraw for an intervention in 2012. Instead of succeeding at modeling, Strauss got hooked on meth and was living on the streets when intervention experts working for Dr. Phil’s talk show tracked her down. Strauss agreed to be on the show but ran out of the studio, forcing Dr. Phil to counsel her in the parking lot. He convinced her to get treatment.

https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/09/americas-next-top-model-meth-addict-dr-phil-intervention-jael-strauss/

http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-america-s-next-top-model--contestant-s-mugshot-raises-more-questions-than-answers-192006502.html

Tom Sizemore: Robert DeNiro confronted Sizemore at his therapist’s office to try to get the Black Hawk Down star to go into rehab in 1995. In his memoir, By Some Miracle I Made it out of There, Sizemore wrote that his lowest point was when his Heat co-star DeNiro was part of a family-led intervention. Sizemore said DeNiro told him, “Now you listen to me, I’m no psychiatrist … but you’re either going to go to rehab or go to prison.” De Niro then offered to fly Sizemore to rehab onboard his private plane, but the troubled actor promised he’d check-in as soon as they wrapped their film.

http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2013/04/09/robert-de-niro-tried-to-get-tom-sizemore-into-rehab/

Dana Plato: Diff’rent Strokes star Plato died of an accidental prescription-drug overdose in 1999 just one day after telling Howard Stern on his radio show she was drug free. Former The Donna Reed Show actor and child star advocate Paul Petersen claimed friends’ intervention efforts through the years hadn’t worked. “We tried and we tried and we tried,” Petersen sighed and added he saw her death coming.

http://www.eonline.com/news/38139/diff-rent-strokes-kid-dana-plato-dead