Monday, July 31, 2006

Mel checks into rehab

Mel Gibson has checked into a rehab center after his weekend DUI arrest and the subsequent anti-Semitic remarks he made to the police. "He is in a program recovery at this time," says his rep of the renowned actor and director. But a neighbor and friend of Gibson's as well as the co-founder of a treatment center in Malibu, isn't sure it will work. "I understand he has gone to a treatment center. The center that I've heard he's checked himself into follows the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program. And I don't believe that will help him," the neighbor said. "He needs individual and intense therapy by a team of people who know what they are looking for in causes of alcoholism. There are only four causes and it is one or more of those four causes that are causing him to be out of control."