Celebrity Breakdowns

There is nothing better for a celebrity to make headlines than to have a breakdown in front of everyone.
There are a number of celebrities through the years who have had breakdowns or some people like to call meltdowns. Most recently: Britney Spears. When she drove her car with her baby boy in her lap, I just thought that she needed to take several parenting classes. I already mentioned her lack of undergarments in a previous blog. Now that Britney has decided that she wants to look like Sinead O’Connor minus the good singing voice, I know that there is seriously something wrong there. Luckily, Britney is in rehab receiving help. No word on if she will flee for the third time.
Other celebrity breakdowns include great singers like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Who can forget Whitney’s interview with Diane Sawyer about four years ago? Before the interview Whitney had always denied drug abuse despite her odd behavior that said otherwise. She disgustingly looked like a skeleton at a Michael Jackson tribute concert in 2001. Then she delivered that famous line to Sawyer when asked if she ever used crack: “Crack is whack.” Yeah, so was Whitney. It was pretty obvious to me that she was even on something during that interview, but not crack of course.
Mariah Carey decided to do a striptease during her breakdown. She shocked audience members and host Carson Daly when she started stripping on the MTV show Total Request Live in 2001. It was not long after that when Mariah eventually was hospitalized claiming exhaustion. This came during a summer of disappointments for Mariah, including her movie “Glitter.”
We may not want to admit it, but we are glued to the television or newspapers when celebrities have these breakdowns. Why? Because it proves that celebrities do not have the charmed life despite the fame and the money. These stars in reality do not have a better life than us average folks. Celebrities actually have it more difficult because their life is not private. People dream of being a star for a day. However, I am sure famous people dream of being average for one day. It just proves that fame and fortune are not everything; they in fact a lot of times make things worse.
Now Mariah Carey was able to make a comeback. It is too soon to tell whether Britney or Whitney will make comebacks. I would not rush if I were them. They should stay away from the spotlight and live life normally for awhile. Well, at least as normal as possible.