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Is Nicole Back in Rehab for Diet and Drugs?

Nicole RichieReports are swirling that tabloid princess Nicole Richie is back -- yet again -- in rehab and more "helpless" than ever, but TMZ is told that it just ain't so. In fact, as we write, Nicole's sitting at home in Glendale, and doing just fine.

The National Enquirer and Star magazine are jointly reporting that Nicole re-entered rehab at Beau Monde on May 11 to fight anorexia and a painkiller addiction, on an outpatient basis, and that she did so "in tears," lamenting the fact that she's "lost control of her life." What's more, report the tabs' sources, she went back in just a few days ago, on the 19th.

But Richie's rep tells TMZ a totally different story, namely that she isn't -- and wasn't -- in rehab, and that she's "in Glendale at her house" (and, we presume, eating). We're told that she did go back to see her therapist, and that her recovery is "an ongoing process," but that she's "completely sober."

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46. NIcole , Brittany, and Paris in jail...wow what a way to get attention..look who they hang with..i hate nicole she is so two faced and takes every friends boyfriend..if anything these young women should just drink up and maybe Nicole will shave her head to...Brittney is over exposed along with these other little girls..i say girls cuz they act like it..i am so tired of seeing the lip singing britt and nicole nicole nicole...get over your selfs already..stay in rehab...tht way you wont look like asses in public.. I am just one of many freakin tired of hearing bout these druggies...i can lip sing to and hey i dont do drugs and if they feel they need to drink and do drugs then they are gonna do it with or without rehab...shouts out to Kfed for taking care of his kids...lord knows momma aint...xoxoxoxooxxo meow!!!

Posted at 12:46PM on May 25th 2007 by angel

47. Why does anyone care about this selfish, vain, silly and totallyl irrelevant young woman? She's just one a long line of attention-starved, talentless skeletons with more money than brains. Like her BFF Paris she's famous for showing up at parties for a PRICE. What a gloriious claim to fame! Their parents must have been asleep at the wheel, nothing to be proud of in these irrelevancies.

Posted at 11:37AM on May 24th 2007 by TERRY

48. OMG!!!!!! you people are relentless. give credit where credit is due, some people need a little or a lot of guidence. i think she's doing the only thing she knows how to do....ask others for help, maybe not in the most direct way, but for her it's the only way she knows. obviously being raised privliged does not make you the most self sufficient. we all learn @ different times in our lives. i'm glad i don't have u people in my life for support or sympathy..ever hear of a gray area? nuthin like closed minded people. it's ok nicole, we all live @ our own pace, you'll be fine!

Posted at 3:13PM on May 24th 2007 by felixluv

49. Nichole's Ritchie I believe does have an eating disorder. I think all these young so called actresses or young women who are famous for nothing is sickening. Who cares about their escapades. Too many others are looking to these poor examples of young women. They act childishly, irresponsibly, and much effort by their families and publicists go to explain the bad behaviuor. Nichole... your having to go to the hospital for dehyration is a ruse. Your so called diagnosis of hypoglycemia isn't the kind that you are trying to make people beleiev you have. You have hypoglycemia becasue you are not eating enough to have any sugar in your body. This will make you feel faint. Interesting about the comment about lsoing control of your life. Since control is a big part of anorexia & bulemia. I know I had it 40 years ago. Do you still have a period? Or did you stop. There are many consequences that do not show up now but later after hopefully you get over it. If not you could easily die. Could have an arrhythmia that could kill you if you magnesium & potassium get too low. She looks unhealthy. I am an ICU RN and truly bvelieve that she does a have a serious eating disorder but everyone around her denies it, so how can she accept it. Sheem like people around her are more intereted in her money than her health

Posted at 3:32AM on May 31st 2007 by Pia

50. Nicole is nice person who has done nothing to deserve any mean comments...she's only human! leave her alone!

Posted at 12:17PM on Jun 11th 2007 by Samantha Coleman

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