Rehab Reid in action

Despite her publicist playing coy, I think I finally figured out why Tara Reid checked into rehab for the holidays. Alcohol! From the Chicago Sun Times:

It sounds like incidents in the Chicago area a couple of weeks ago may have triggered Tara Reid's decision to check herself into rehab. The actress' publicist has confirmed that Reid had entered the famed Promises Treatment Center in Malibu, Calif., a facility long popular with celebrities, including Ben Affleck, Robert Downey Jr., Lindsay Lohan, and Christian Slater . . . a couple of sources indicate Reid was back to her old ways in our area about 10 days before she checked herself into Promises last Tuesday. While the actress' team says it has absolutely no knowledge of her being in Chicago or Northern Indiana recently, I've learned Reid was partying at both the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond and at the bar area of the Hard Rock Hotel downtown.

''She was clearly feeling no pain but didn't do anything outrageous,'' said the BZ spy at the Horseshoe. ''She just seemed like she was having perhaps too good a time with a bunch of friends.''

As for the Hard Rock sighting here in early December, the only ''weird thing'' reported by my source was, ''Tara was showing her little group one of those celebrity magazines -- pointing and laughing about a shot of her in a bikini on some beach. ... What made it weird was ... I think that was part of a spread about bad plastic surgery.'' (Source)

Why is Tara checking herself into a rehab facility for celebrities? Clearly she doesn't qualify. Isn't there some sort of screening process? Her last major role was in the straight-to-DVD-classic Senior Skip Day, rated R by the MPAA for "crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug and alcohol use -- all involving teens." If that sounds familiar, it's because Tara starred in the same movie in 1999, only it was called American Pie. Hell, Tara's so far down on the D-list these days, I have to blow out all the candles in my room before I even attempt to beat off to her pictures lest I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and break down in tears . . . again. *sigh*

[BauerGriffinOnline, Pacific Coast News, WENN]