Alcoholics Anonymous Reviews

Mirror ~ 6 June 2005

Troubled singer Kelly Osbourne is back in rehab again to fight her painkiller and alcohol abuse.

The 20-year-old daughter of rocker Ozzy and wife Sharon booked herself into a clinic in Pasadena, California.

Friends say Kelly, who starred with her parents and brother Jack in the hit fly-on-the-wall series The Osbournes, unexpectedly took herself to the Las Encinas clinic after she felt her addiction was out of control. The clinic treated her brother for his own drug and alcohol abuse.

Sources close to the singer say she began to fall back into bad ways after taunts about her weight and bad reviews of her album, Sleeping In The Nothing, which only reached number 57 on its UK release.

An insider tells us: "Kelly is so proud of her album but she struggled to cope with all the negative criticism.

"She put her heart and soul into that CD, but it was getting panned and it really affected her badly.

"No one really gave her a chance

"On top of that were the constant jibes about her weight. She's a normal curvy girl, not a stick-thin size six, so people take pops at her and it really hurts. She may seem really ballsy on the outside but deep down she's a vulnerable young woman.

"Using the painkillers and alcohol is her way of blocking out the pain.

"Everyone around her is just so relieved that she realises she's going down a very slippery slope but is grown up enough to try and do something about it."

Only a year ago Kelly spent several weeks in rehab at the Promises drug treatment centre in Malibu. The stay followed the discovery of 500 super-strong painkillers under her bed by Ozzy's maid.

In April, mum Sharon took matters into her own hands by hiring a minder to ensure Kelly stayed clean. But despite her efforts her youngest daughter still returned to drugs.

Kelly recently admitted that the hardest thing about fame was having everyone talking about her body shape.

The rock chick said she refused to go on a Hollywood stick insect diet and admitted she thought most of her pals were too skinny anyway.

She said: "Sure, they're beautiful in photographs, but when you see them in person they look hungry and miserable."

Yesterday a spokesperson for Kelly said: "Kelly has chosen to enter a facility to deal with some personal issues. She plans to return to promoting her album within a few weeks."