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Dog the Bounty Hunter‘s wife, Beth Chapman, has started treatment to help eradicate throat cancer recently rediscovered by doctors … and so far, so good, TMZ has learned.
Sources close to Beth tell us she’s going through chemotherapy, which we’re told started...
Dog the Bounty Hunter Wife Beth Has Started Treatment ... For Throat Cancer
Monday, January 21, 2019
Dog the Bounty Hunter Wife Beth Has Started Treatment ... For Throat Cancer
Friday, November 9, 2018
LaMelo Ball Gets LeBron Treatment with Billboard, "Welcome to Ohio!!"
LaMelo Ball is already getting treated like a king in Ohio … ‘cause the kid got a LeBron James-style billboard to welcome the high school baller to his new home!! ICYMI — the youngest Ball bro announced his return to prep hoops earlier this week…
Conan O"Brien Blasts White House for Comedic Treatment of Jim Acosta
Conan O’Brien’s laughing his ass off a lot these days, courtesy President Trump and co. — but the problem is they’re also stomping all over the late night host’s turf … according to Conan. We got COB out in the Big Apple Thursday and…
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Selena Gomez Out of Psychiatric Facility After Treatment for Emotional Breakdown
Selena Gomez has left the East Coast psychiatric facility where she was being treated after suffering an emotional breakdown. Sources confirm with TMZ, Selena is out and laying low … at least for a while. TMZ broke the story, Selena had been…
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Selena Gomez Suffers "Emotional Breakdown," Agrees to Treatment
Selena Gomez is once again in need of professional help.
According to TMZ, the pop star was hospitalized on two occasions over the past two weeks for health concerns related to Lupus.
(Gomez was diagnosed with this autoimmunse disease in 2015; the illness can damage almost any part of the body – including joints, skin and internal organs – because it causes the immune system to be unable to tell the difference between foreign invaders and healthy tissues.)
The first hospital visit took place toward the end of September and was the result of a low white blood cell count in the wake of her kidney transplant last year.
The artist was released after a few days days later …
… but had to be re-admitted last week because her blood cell count remained at a dangerous level – and this development prompted Selena to fall into a downward emotional spiral.
She insisted on leaving nearly as soon as she was under doctors’ care again, only for these same doctors to say she had to stay in the hospital.
TMZ writes that Selena had “a meltdown” and “freaked out.”
She allegedly tried ripping the IV’ out of her arm, with multiple sources referring to the episode as “an emotional breakdown.”
Once she recovered from this state, Gomez agreed to check into an East Coast psychiatric facility, at which she is receiving dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
This is a treatment method designed to identify, and then change, negative thinking and behavioral patterns. She has undergone the same treatment before.
Let’s all pray it works this time.
“She has had a tough few weeks and the panic attack in the hospital was the tipping point,” a source tells People Magazine, confirming the TMZ report and adding:
“She realized she needed to seek additional help for her ongoing emotional issues. She’s surrounded by close family and has a lot of support. She’s doing better now.”
We’re very glad to hear it.
Sadly, however, this incident and everything related to it wasn’t all that hard to see coming.
Just two weeks ago, Gomez took a break from social media, explaining why in a heartfelt video that touched on her battle with depression.
“As much as I am grateful for the voice that social media gives each of us, I am equally grateful to be able to step back and live my life present to the moment I have been given,” she wrote.
“Kindness and encouragement only for a bit! Just remember— negative comments can hurt anybody’s feelings.”
In this Instagram Live session, Gomez admitted that she had been dealing with mental health issues for about five years.
She also said she had been “kinda just going through the motions and figuring out who I am and just doing the best I could and then slowly but surely doing that” for about half a decade.
Translation: Gomez is truly unsure about who she is and who she wants to be.
Watch the emotional footage here:
Many folks are naturally wondering whether Justin Bieber’s engagement to Hailey Baldwin is playing a role in Selena’s latest troubles.
The short answer, of course, is that we have no idea.
We’d rather not speculate.
Gomez has entered rehab at various times over the past few years and Lupus is a serious disease that does result in a myriad of physical ailments.
It’s only natural for these physical ailments to eventually take a mental toll, as well.
It’s also only natural for anyone to have a very hard time dealing with a serious ex moving on in such a significant manner.
All we can do right now is wish Selena Gomez the best and hope she has a full recovery.
We’re thinking of you, Sel.
And we love you.
Selena Gomez Has "Emotional Breakdown" and Now Receiving Mental Health Treatment
Selena Gomez was hospitalized twice in the last 2 weeks … and the second time she suffered what sources called an emotional breakdown … she’s now at a mental health facility for treatment. Multiple sources tell TMZ, the 26-year-old singer…
Friday, October 5, 2018
Ryan Lochte Reveals "Serious Alcohol Addiction," Seeking Treatment
Ryan Lochte is now acknowledging that he has a “serious” alcohol problem after a booze-fueled incident at a Southern California hotel and he’ll be seeking treatment, TMZ Sports has learned. We’ve confirmed … Lochte was involved in an…
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Bill Cosby"s Sex Offender Treatment Depends on Danger Level
As Bill Cosby settles into life behind bars, the convicted comedian will undergo a rigorous evaluation to determine the extent of his sex offender treatment … and it all hinges on how much of a danger he poses. Cosby will go through a program…
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Bill Cosby Getting Star Treatment in Prison According to His Team
Bill Cosby didn’t stroll down an actual red carpet into prison, but he might as well have … based on the treatment his team says he’s getting in the maximum security prison he now calls home. As we reported, Cosby is now at the…
Monday, August 27, 2018
Mel B Says She"s Getting Treatment for PTSD
Mel B is getting ready to enter a therapy program to deal with PTSD from her long and bitter divorce battle … and admits she’s also had issues with alcohol and sex. The ‘AGT’ judge said she discovered her PTSD issues earlier this month, and has…
Friday, August 10, 2018
Demi Lovato Temporarily Leaves Rehab Facility for Treatment in Chicago
Demi Lovato left her rehab facility Thursday and flew to Chicago, but we’ve learned the trip was organized by doctors and designed to make her sober and healthy. Sources with firsthand knowledge tell us, Demi and her mom landed in Chicago on a…
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Barack Obama Gets Rock Star Treatment While Dining On Martha"s Vineyard
Barack Obama has officially transcended presidential popularity — ‘cause he’s now getting treated like a top-tier A-list powerhouse who just wrapped an epic concert or something. 44 was dining with Michelle Monday night at The Cardboard Box…
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Allison Mack: New Details Emerge on Sadistic Treatment of Sex Cult Slaves
Former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg’s daughter, India, was one of the reported sex slaves within NXIVM and DOS. With the arrest of the cult leaders, that nightmare is over.
Within the organization, women were allegedly blackmailed and branded at the behest of Keith Raniere and Allison mack.
In Catherine’s new book, she shares the harrowing details of what has been revealed to her about life within the nightmarish sex cult. Take a look:
Catherine Oxenberg’s new book is titled Captive: A Mother’s Crusade to Save Her Daughter from a Terrifying Cult.
That might sound like it’s melodramatic or, worse, the title of a Lifetime movie. But having a child trapped in a sex slave cult in which you don’t know what’s happening to them is frightening.
The only thing worse, perhaps, is when you finally learn what is happening. And that is what Catherine did as she consulted with multiple women about what they say happened.
Keith Raniere may be the leader of NXIVM, but Allison Mack was a “master” within the sex-slave cult.
“I would hear from many slaves that Allison was also very territorial about Keith,” Oxenberg writes in her book.
She was allegedly his fanatical servant, determined to please him by selecting women and ordering them to have sex with him.
But apparently this task made her feel jealous of the women who were, after all, obeying her orders.
“And,” Oxenberg writes, Mack “felt threatened and jealous of each woman she sent to have sex with him.”
“Which resulted in her being very punitive and sadistic as a master,” Oxenberg reports.
That makes a twisted kind of sense. If you’re providing someone with lovers because you’re devoted to him, you might also resent those lovers if you feel that you should be the one in bed with him.
Combine that with Mack being allegedly in charge of “discipline” for the slave women and you get a recipe for suffering.
In fact, Mack was said to be an incredibly strict taskmaster.
Oxenberg writes that Allison Mack is “obsessed with penance and weight.”
The slave women were reportedly subject to blackmail and other punishments while required to make themselves “perfect” for Raniere.
“They also had to give collateral every month,” Oxenberg writes. “And keep closely to their starvation diets.”
As we all learned late last year, Mack and the other women are said to keep themselves to starvation diets, limiting their caloric intake to an alarming degree and also exercising.
This is allegedly part of what they need for self-improvement or whatever, which makes it curious that Raniere himself does not do any of that.
Oxenberg also reveals some details of the tasks that Mack would allegedly assign to the slave women.
There was more to it, it seems, than a simple instruction for a woman to bed Raniere.
For one thing, it’s said that Mack would give them permission to enjoy the sex.
Additionally, Oxenberg writes that Mack would instruct the women to “let him take photos of you naked afterward.”
This was apparently “to prove you’ve completed this assignment.
Mack would allegedly order the women with naked photos to “send them to your master.”
Oxenberg apparently learned this from speaking with multiple former “slave women” from NXIVM’s internal group, DOS, which is an acronym for a latin phrase meaning “dominance over the slave women.”
We can only imagine the heartache that she must have felt — and must still feel — knowing that her own daughter was recruited and, incrementally, manipulated step by step until she was one of these women.
The heiress who bankrolled Keith Raniere and NXIVM tried to suggest that the abuse allegations are just sex-shaming, but the allegations aren’t that Raniere engaged in sex.
The allegations are that, through blackmail and brainwashing, Raniere and Mack gave this women no choice but to allow themselves to be branded and bedded at his will.
Kanye West Bonding with His Father During Cancer Treatment
Kanye West and his dad are making the best of a bad situation … turning Ray’s recent cancer diagnosis into a reason for some quality father-son time. Sources close to the family tell TMZ … there’s been a major silver lining to Kanye’s…
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Destiny"s Child Michelle Williams Looks Happy After Treatment for Depression
Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child had a pep in her step the day after her birthday … and not long after she received treatment at a mental health facility. We got Michelle and her fiance, Chad Johnson, out Tuesday night and she looks…
Monday, July 9, 2018
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Vacations in Hawaii, Looks Great After Cancer Treatment
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is getting some well-deserved R&R — months after completing her cancer treatments — and looks like she’s ready to bust out the Elaine dance any day now. Julia and her husband, Brad Hall, are vacationing in Hawaii. The…
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Vin Diesel Gets the Doctor Treatment at Hunter College Grad Ceremony
Vin Diesel’s definitely cool … but not too cool to not go back to school. The ‘Fast & Furious’ star returned to Hunter College of the City University of New York almost 30 years after he left the school to pursue his Hollywood dream ……
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Bishop Curry Gets the Rockstar Treatment in NYC After Royal Wedding
Bishop Curry is getting major love in New York City after preaching about it at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding. We got the bishop in NYC Tuesday, where he was making the media rounds after his powerful sermon, hypothesizing on a…
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Meghan Markle"s Mom Leaves for Royal Wedding, Gets VIP Treatment
Walking Meghan Markle down the aisle to marry Prince Harry has its privileges, and her mother is enjoying one of ‘em right now as she jets off to England for the royal wedding. Doria Ragland got picked up Tuesday at her L.A. home, where she…
Meghan Markle"s Mom Leaves for Royal Wedding, Gets VIP Treatment
Walking Meghan Markle down the aisle to marry Prince Harry has its privileges, and her mother is enjoying one of ‘em right now as she jets off to England for the royal wedding. Doria Ragland got picked up Tuesday at her L.A. home, where she…