Lessons for Pat O'Brien

For those of you who don't keep up on all the celebrity gossip, Pat O'Brien (Access Hollywood, The Insider) has checked himself into rehab after making some critical email and voicemail errors. Perhaps it's a lesson not only for Pat, but for the rest of us too.

Before leaving Access Hollywood in summer 2004, O'Brien sent out a drunken email critiquing his co-hosts including Nancy O'Dell. The email was promptly followed by a public apology and an admission of a drinking problem.

Lesson #1 for Pat O'Brien: If you write an email while intoxicated, sober up before hitting the send button.

After leaving Access Hollywood, O'Brien got his own entertainment gossip show called the Insider. At first it looked like O'Brien got his drinking under control. However, he apparently decided to get drunk, do a few lines of cocaine and leave a string of dirty voice-mail messages all over the place.

Lesson #2 for Pat O'Brien: If you are "horny" and doing illegal drugs, don't call everyone in your address book and tell them. You are a celebrity damn it! Especially don't leave voice mail evidence that can be recorded and leaked all over the internet.

If you're out of the loop and want more info on this critical issue, check out this article at MethodShop. Or better yet, read the blog (and buy a t-shirt while you're there) or this little inside commentary.

Just a thought (since before I read the commentary) -- what's with everyone checking into rehab these days? Kennedy, Foley, and now O'Brien. I guess it's that devil alcohol that made me do it.

And those two glasses of red wine made me write this post. Rrrrriiiiiigggghhhhtttt. Oh what the hell!