the A&E "Intervention" episode about Days of the New dude...

This show was interesting/amusing UNTIL I saw the one about the suburban mom who hoarded/drank countless gallons of mouthwash and I think it turned me off the show forever. It just felt gross to watch that lady guzzle generic mouthwash. She spooned it at night. Ugh.

MOUTHWASH?? Is that an addiction or a mental problem? Wait, for the alcohol? I dont get it.

It really hate the intervention experts or whatever they are. I dont know how these patronizing, condescending hippies still havent had their asses kicked meth addict style.

I love intervention. The one about the stripper methhead who kept getting naked on camera still haunts me and I'd really like to know what happened to her. I think her name was Chrissy and I'm pretty sure there was some sort of mental illness going on with her in addition to her addictions. They need to do a long term follow-up show!

Re Mouthwash lady
She would drink vodka but when she ran out she decided to drink mouthwash -- for the alcohol. Then it sort of seemed like she preferred the mouthwash. It was really gruesome. There was a point where she was like WHERE'S MY MOUTHWASH and then she slumped over on the front yard. She had all kinds of DUIs and whatnot, then she was sentenced to 3 weeks in prison, which stymied her intervention and turned out to be a detox situation of sorts and then she finally had her (by that point) somewhat unnecessary intervention. The really alarming part was that she supposedly went from 0 to mouthwash in 6 years. It was awful. Like watching someone's mom huff glue.

What really suprises me about these shows is that the family is always these real average looking middleclass types and EVERYONE knows what the addicted person is doing. Like Mom knows her son is going into to bathroom to shoot up a speedball, dad knows his daughter is doing crack in the garage and they just exist this way. Noone is really freaking out or yelling at each other.

I love intervention. The one about the stripper methhead who kept getting naked on camera still haunts me and I'd really like to know what happened to her.

this episode was horrifying! like when her family was telling her to get help and that they loved her and her reaction was basically to just laugh and be like "GUYS THIS IS SOOO BORING I NEED A 40"

I know!!!! The whole thing scared the shit out of me. I really need to find out what happened to her.

<i>It really hate the intervention experts or whatever they are.</i>

i agree. except fucking JEFF VAN VONDEREN.

bloody bbcode or whatever.

that chrissy stripper one was berserk

ts: intervention's chrissy methhead stripper VS dr phil's junkie crackhead whore twins

this is just another show on A&E that interrupts my Caruso time. therefore it can go to hell.

Wasn't methhead stripper a methhead since she was like 13 or something insane like that? That seems like enough time to cause some serious mental issues no matter what.

My favorite was the middle aged woman who only drank airplane sized liquor bottles. It seemed so inefficient, though I can see her not wanting to just say fuck it and buying gallons of vodka at a time. You're not an alcoholic if you just drink little bottles, even if you drink twenty of them a day.

that cutter punk chick that was in a dadrock band was HOT

We get intervention on our On Demand. I might have to watch some tonight now. In the meantime, I'm gonna see if I can find out more about Chrissy.

My "favourite" was the methhead who came from a family of traveling Evangelicals. Their story was just sooo bizarre and fucked up, his mother would start singing hymns and shit out of nowhere... CRAZY.

Another one that sort of made me cry was the heroin-addicted former Top Chef...

My "favourite" was the methhead who came from a family of traveling Evangelicals. Their story was just sooo bizarre and fucked up, his mother would start singing hymns and shit out of nowhere... CRAZY.

Ok, yeah - that one was some of the weirdest stuff I've ever seen. He'd been molested, right? I forgot about that one.

So far I've found out her name was Christy, not Chrissy but not much else.

It's frustrating, though, because they usually leave out most of the family background to all this (although in terms of *current* interaction, it's not that uncommon, on this show, to see Mom or Dad [never both at once] not only handing over drug money, but driving offspring to score. In the case of the rage addict, who was also into crack, I think it was, the father explained that he didn't want to see his son hurt anybody to get the cash and/or dope). It's better when they devote a whole show to one case, usually. Anyway, the DVD version of You're Gonna Miss Me, the Roky Erickson documentary adds a lot of updates, through Feb. of this year (the original film ended in 2002). The DVD also includes his mother's movies and some incredible musical performances, maybe even topped by his spoken word, "I Know The Hole In Baby's Head." A lot of stuff about his family is still left out, but can be inferred. DVD's out July 10 (The most up-front family dysfunction saga is in Crumb, but--well, I won't say what one result of that outing was, but it's one of the most amazing documentaries ever--and R.'s art isn't neglected, either)

What about the very la-di-da millionaire dot-com divorcee who drank Malibu by the gallon and rolled around America in a limo with her cat and litterbox?

"Pho-toes! Pho-toes! Pho-toooooooeeesss!"

Tonight's "Intervention" is a re-run of the episode with Allison the paint huffer, FYI. "IT'S LIKE I'M WALKIN' ON SUNSHINE."

This week they did a follow-up episode on Allison. She's doing great! She has blonde hair now, and moved from small town Rhode Island to Los Angeles.

She looks like she's in the witness relocation program or something.