Azealia Banks covers the April issue of Playboy. The shoot was done by Ellen Von Unwerth, and it’s actually kind of fun to look at if you disregard a terrified looking cat. I thought the cat might be fake, but it poses differently in a few shots. Poor kitty looks spooked. You can see the full NSFW shoot here. I’ve talked about Banks before in a roundabout way, which is usually the best way to refer to her. Usually you can find a ton of insulting slurs all over her Twitter page, but Banks’ management grabbed the reins until April. A wise move.

Banks is beyond epic in her troll-like ways. She regularly expresses anti-Semitic views and contempt for homosexual men (which is odd since she openly identifies as bisexual). Every so often, she speaks a kernal of truth about the hip-hop industry (see her Hot 97 interview). But she always ruins any valid message with hateful rants and button pushing. She even lamented the downfall of “father figure BILL COSBY.” This is the sort of behavior that killed two record contracts.

Here are some Playboy excerpts. This is some scrolldown WTF:

Her type of guy: “I love older men. The things in an older man’s house are better—his furniture, even his knives and his pots. And they smell better. Young guys, they may skip a shower and sh*t like that.”

Her career dreams: “The race thing always comes up, but I want to get there being very black and proud and boisterous about it. You get what I mean? A lot of times when you’re a black woman and you’re proud, that’s why people don’t like you. In American society, the game is to be a nonthreatening black person. That’s why you have Pharrell or Kendrick Lamar saying, ‘How can we expect people to respect us if we don’t respect ourselves?’ He’s playing that nonthreatening black man sh*t, and that gets all the white soccer moms going, ‘We love him.’ Even Kanye West plays a little bit of that game–’Please accept me, white world.’ Jay Z hasn’t played any of those games, and that’s what I like.”

Why people don’t like her: “It’s always about race. Lorde can run her mouth and talk sh*t about all these other bitches, but y’all aren’t saying she’s angry. If I have something to say, I get pushed into the corner. Because y’all motherf***ers still owe me reparations! That’s why it’s still about race. Really, the generational effects of Jim Crow and poverty linger on. As long as I have my money, I’m getting the f*** out of here and I’m gonna leave y’all to your own devices.”

On the U.S.: “I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma–that’s really America.”

She’s always been this way: “We had journals in second grade. I went to PS 166, on 88th Street and Columbus Avenue, and we had a teacher I could not stand. The black kids got in trouble all the time. We were loud or whatever, but whenever she told a white kid to quiet down and they did, she’d be like, whatever. But if she told a black kid to quiet down and one of them sucked their teeth, she’d put them in the corner. I wrote in the journal one day, ‘I cannot stand this white bitch teacher. F*** this white bitch.’ She found my journal and called my mother, who was embarrassed, because my mother used to say stuff like that–’White people are of the devil. Stay away from them.’ That teacher was scared of me after that.”

[From Playboy]

Banks also rants about why athiests suck (something about God and calculators, which makes no sense). She says she doesn’t sleep around but not because because she doesn’t want to. She admits to turning off men by ranting about the injustices of life, and they flee. She’s fine with that because she doesn’t want to catch VD.

Banks wants us to think she’s playing that game where she makes us uncomfortable and shakes up our version of reality, but all she does is pick fights. She doesn’t get why people don’t take her statements seriously when she talks about “the issues.” She wonders why people respect Q-Tip and not her? Well … for starters. Q-Tip expresses himself without drama. He doesn’t toss around slurs. He doesn’t insult people. Whereas Banks doesn’t discuss, she attacks. Troll is a troll.

Photos courtesy of Ellen Von Unwerth/Playboy & WENN

This is heart-breaking.

You may remember when we posted a couple weeks back about Taylor Swift, 25, granting a terminally ill 4-year-old fan her final wish. Jalene Salinas, the 4-year-old girl, had been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer since last year. One of Jalene’s wishes on her bucket list was to be able to dance to “Shake It Off” with Taylor Swift. This is a wish that Taylor would go on to grant for her fan. Unfortunately, Jalene has since passed away. Her Facebook page released the following statement:

“On March 15, 2015 Jalene gained her beautiful angel wings. She fought all the way to the end. She beat Cancer defying the hours and days we were told. She went to be with our Lord in his time. Jalene was a true princess and I made sure to have her glass slippers by her side. I have to say that Jalene loved her siblings and at the end she was waiting for her little brother to say goodbye before taking her last breath. She was dressed beautifully. I did take pictures 10 mins after her passing. The ONLY reason I am choosing to share a photo is because everyone can simply agree on what a great infectionest smile Jalene had. So with in the first 10 of her passing, as I sat by her side, I looked up and there she was smiling at me. Jalene’s smile seemed to grow as time was passing by and we were waiting for her to be picked up. Her smile comforted my heart and let me know that she is flying high free of pain and sickness!!!

Team Jalene thank you for being a part of her journey. This is not over because Jalene Will live on in the heart of everyone. We will continue to spread her kind hearted nature. Her ability to care for others. Please in Jalene’s name today especially but always spread her smile to the ones that don’t have a smile on their face. Her legacy will continue alway and forever….”

This is heart-wrenching. Our thoughts are certainly with Jalene, her family, her friends, and her fellow fans at this time.

Your boyfriend Charlie Hunnam has a newish interview with Elle Canada. I enjoyed it! I’m really starting to enjoy him more as a person/celebrity, beyond his looks. He loves cats, his interviews are interesting and funny, he can cook and he has temporarily given up his motorcycle as part of the grieving process post-Sons of Anarchy. See? He’s more than a pretty face and an amazing butt. Anyway, you can read Charlie’s Elle interview here – he talks about leaving SOA and being “heartbroken” to say goodbye to Jax (none of which really interested me, so I’m leaving that out). He also talks about masculinity, rebellious youth and getting naked on camera.

What it means to be a man: “It means standing on your own two feet, living by your code of honour and being a rock for the people around you. But in the modern context, it also means being in touch with your feminine side. Men have to be strong enough not to repress their emotions; real strength allows for vulnerability.”

His rebellious youth: “When I was 15, I was banned from going to Florence on an art-history trip by a teacher who generally thought I was a ‘menace to society.’ While he was away, I broke into his stash of acrylic paints and painted this giant crushed-up Coke can. It was maybe the best painting I’d ever done, but he ripped it up in front of the whole class. I was so angry and humiliated and sad that this thing that I loved and that I’d created was destroyed. I felt myself starting to cry, which was totally un­acceptable to me at that time. We used to twist old art scissors into throwing stars, and I could hit a f–king bull’s eye, no problem. So I threw some of these scissors at him, and they landed in the doorframe parallel to his head. And that was it—they expelled me from school.”

On-screen nudity: “The level of nudity that I do now, which is taking my shirt off, doesn’t bother me at all. But I have done full frontal before. I did full frontal when I was 18 on the TV show Queer as Folk. But because I was playing a 15-year-old character, the censorship people wouldn’t allow us to put it on TV.”

Whether he would go full frontal again: “I think when I was young, I was a little bit more fearless with that stuff. I don’t know…I’m sure I would; I have nothing to hide.”

[From Elle Canada]

He dropped trou a lot for Sons of Anarchy, but they never did show “full thunder” as it was. Maybe he would have revealed his thunder for Fifty Shades of Grey, but he ended up pulling out of that mess. So… something to look forward to in the future. I could see him going full-frontal like Michael Fassbender in Shame, couldn’t you?

As for his story of “rebellion” – whoa. He threw scissors at a teacher!! That’s a pretty good reason for an expulsion. But I did love his answer about masculinity and “real men” knowing how to be in touch with their feelings and vulnerability. I feel like Charlie should do some PSAs about masculinity. Maybe he could be shirtless and crying at the time. GAH.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

As we discussed yesterday, Pamela Anderson is pretty much at war with her lunatic estranged husband, Rick Salomon. Rick has been harassing her, sending her crazy and accusatory messages, calling her a “serial baby killer” and more. Pam also claimed Rick tried to smother her during sex one time. She successfully got a restraining order taken out against him, and now it seems like Pam is going after his money.

Pam Anderson says Rick Salomon may not be screwing her anymore, but he’s definitely screwing the tax man … because he’s dodging a tax bill on $40 million in poker winnings in 2014 alone. TMZ broke the story … Rick has filed for an annulment from Pam in Nevada. She wants a California divorce, not an annulment, because it could entitle her to half his poker earnings.

Pam claims in new legal docs — obtained by TMZ — Rick won $40 MIL from ONE GUY — Andy Beal, a billionaire real estate mogul who plays high stakes poker. In one weekend, Beal gambled at the Bellagio in Vegas and was up $13 mil at one point and down more than $16 mil later. Pam says in the docs, Rick is lying in his annulment papers by saying he’s a resident of Nevada, where there is no state income tax. Pam says they have lived in Malibu, California, where the state tax rate is a whopping 13%.

Pam says Rick actually used some of his earnings last year to buy a $4 million Nevada pad by paying cash, and then had his assistant use Rick’s credit card in Nevada to make small purchases, making it look like Rick was living there. Rick’s people say Pam is on a mission to ruin Rick because she’s not happy about the proposed divorce settlement.

[From TMZ]

I don’t really feel like taking a side here, mostly because it sounds like both of them are focused on the money and it feels like the financial aspect of this divorce is what we’ve been building up to. Do I think that Pam “deserves” half of Rick’s assets just because they were married to each other for a few months? Nope. But I do think that – legally – Rick is likely a resident of California, and this “I live in Nevada, dude” excuse won’t really hold up.

Meanwhile, it’s pretty well known (if you read the tabloids) that Pam isn’t in the best financial situation. Her Malibu property was a money pit and she spent millions trying (unsuccessfully) to renovate it. A few years ago, she was hit with a massive tax lien too. Plus, I doubt she has that much money coming in. So is it any surprise that one of her friends “gifted” her with an $800,000 ring?

Pam Anderson deserves the $800,000 ring “The Simpsons” co-creator Sam Simon gave her before he died of cancer, friends of the “Baywatch” star say. The buxom blonde was in the front row at Simon’s funeral in Los Angeles on Saturday and gave a eulogy before such mourners as Drew Carey, Conan O’Brien and Bob Barker.

“She called Sam the only real gentleman in her life,” PETA president Ingrid Newkirk told me. Both Simon and Anderson were honorary directors of the organization.

“They bonded over their concern about animal abuse,” Newkirk said of the platonic friendship. “She cheered him up, arranged a personal trainer to help him be less dependent on his cane, and he supported her as she struggled with divorce. They were solid pals, and Sam was a generous man who knew his own mind right up to the end.”

Simon’s girlfriend Kate Porter also denied a TMZ story that Simon’s family was upset that Anderson had taken advantage of a dying man.

“It’s not a true story,” Porter tweeted. “Whoever did this should be ashamed of themselves. Very upsetting to all of us!”

[From Page Six]

Yes, there was a story that Sam Simon’s family members were upset with his gift/bequest, but I guess not. I guess Sam and Pam really were friends and he was just trying to help his friend out. That’s nice, isn’t it?

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Well, I never!! I can’t believe Duchess Kate didn’t repeat one of her two green coats (go here and here to see) for her annual St. Patrick’s Day outing to meet the Irish Guards. She didn’t wear green at all!! Shocking.

Kate ended up wearing something we’ve never seen before: a dark brown Catherine Walker coat and a Lock & Co hat. Walker isn’t a standard maternity designer, but this coat looks well-proportioned and I assume it was probably made for Kate. It’s very pretty. I envy her coat collection and this is probably one of the best maternity coats/coat-dresses I’ve seen on Kate. It’s a great length, the dark color flatters her as a brunette and I even like the way she’s styled her look. Her hair is back! And she’s wearing a gold Irish Guards brooch that once belonged to the Queen Mum (although you can barely see it because she’s also wearing real shamrocks). The brown suede shoes are by Emmy London.

Meanwhile, The Daily Beast ran a story/propaganda piece this week about how we need to stop calling her “Lazy Kate.” Apparently, Kate has been nothing short of a workhorse during her pregnancy, which the DB admits is a “carefully thought-out strategy” to “put an end to the ‘lazy Kate’ story that threatened to become a theme.” I don’t think Kate has suddenly become a workhorse, I just think Will and Kate’s new American PR guy is working his bum off and he’s actually convinced Kate in particular that if she wants to take a long maternity leave or month-long vacations, she needs to put in some work-time in between holidays. Apparently, Kate will also make a stop by a Children’s Centre tomorrow and she’ll do some events at the end of this month. So this isn’t her last engagement before her extended maternity leave.

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I actually liked Lady Gaga’s performance at the Oscars this year. She did a musical tribute for the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music. You could tell that Gaga took it seriously, that she practiced and rehearsed and wanted to get it right. She seemed nervous at first, but she hit all the notes and sounded really good… to me. Shonda Rimes disagreed, and Shonda publicly dissed Gaga on Twitter. But Julie Andrews thought Gaga was wonderful, and if Julie says it’s cool, then it’s cool. But now Stephen Sondheim is chiming in, because I guess we needed to know what he thought of Gaga’s performance? Sure. Well, it sounds like Sondheim just hates Gaga in general.

Lady Gaga’s Sound of Music tribute at the Oscars was not one of Stephen Sondheim’s favorite things. The legendary composer — who’s known for musicals including Into the Woods, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Company, among others — told the UK’s Times of London recently that he thought the performance was “ridiculous,” and not in a good way.

Sondheim’s partner, Jeff Romley, who is 36 years old to his 84, “would crawl a mile to see” Gaga, he shared with the paper. But the eight-time Tony winner is more difficult to impress.

“On the Academy Awards she was a travesty,” he said. “It was ridiculous, as it would be from any singer who treats that music in semi-operatic style. She had no relationship to what she was singing. What people liked was her versatility.”

[From Us Weekly]

I had to watch the video of Gaga’s performance again (go here to see) because I feel like I’m hallucinating. Nope… Gaga sounded really good. Truly. Did she sound as good as Julie Andrews in the original film soundtrack? No, she didn’t. But that’s a really high bar to set, you know? Gaga sounded better than the overwhelming majority of professional singers attempting that medley. I could see having some quibble about her relationship to the music, or her lyrical interpretation, but Gaga was not a “travesty” by any stretch of the imagination. God, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Team Gaga. Sondheim sounds like such a crotchety jackass here. Oh, and an 84 year old dude has a 36-year-old lover? Yeah, THAT is the travesty.

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Poor Benedict Cumberbatch had a crazy schedule during the awards season. He kept having to fly back and forth to LA for several months, all while trying to film the Sherlock Christmas special. He just had to film one episode – they aren’t going to film the new “series” (three episodes) until next year, probably. But in December, we’re going to get some kind of Sherlock special, and as we saw from the set photos, it looks like the special episode is going to be VERY true to the original Arthur Conan Doyle canon. As in, it’s set in Victorian England. Some of the super-fans were trying to figure out how this could happen within the current Sherlock world, but Steven Moffat appeared at SXSW yesterday and he made it sound like it’s simply a one-off, with no connection to the normal Sherlock series:

For the eagerly anticipated Sherlock special episode, Holmes and Watson are essentially going back in time. Co-creator Steven Moffat has now confirmed the special will take place in Victorian London, validating fan assumptions about the episode. Last month the show’s stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were spotted filming Sherlock in 19th century clothes, causing fans to wonder if perhaps the crime-fighting duo attended a costume ball, or perhaps it was just some kind of dream sequence within the special. But no: The 90-minute episode literally takes place more than 100 years ago.

“The special is its own thing,” Moffat told EW before attending a panel at the South by Southwest conference on Monday. “We wouldn’t have done the story we’re doing, and the way we’re doing it, if we didn’t have this special. It’s not part of the run of three episodes. So we had this to do it – as we could hardly conceal – it’s Victorian. [Co-creator Mark Gatiss] and me, we wanted to do this, but it had to be a special, it had to be separate entity on its own. It’s kind of in its own little bubble.”

The special is pretty much finished, Moffat added, and he’s very pleased with the result. No air date is set by Sherlock networks BBC and PBS Masterpiece, but the special is widely expected to air in the UK around December.

[From Entertainment Weekly]

I feel like this is an interesting hint at the story: “We wouldn’t have done the story we’re doing, and the way we’re doing it, if we didn’t have this special.” I feel like that means the original story would have been too difficult for a modern adaptation. But they’ve already done The Hound of Baskerville, The Reichenbach Fall/The Final Problem, and they’ve done A Scandal in Bohemia/Belgravia. Those are some of the most iconic stories from Doyle’s canon. I wonder what they’ve adapted for this special… hmm….

Meanwhile, Benedict was seen jogging in Cotswolds a few days ago, looking like an ‘80s reject. GO HERE to see the photos. I kind of love that Benedict wears dated ‘80s fleece jackets. I feel like his mum probably gave it to him.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

New Avi Alert #LipLinerOnFleek

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Mar 16, 2015 at 8:16am PDT

Kim Kardashian posted this Instagram yesterday. I sometimes worry that the Kardashian and Jenner sisters are in the midst of some kind of lip injection war. They’re trying to see who can “get away” with having the most ridiculous and obvious lip augmentation around. For a while it was Kim, then it was Khloe, and currently the reigning lip augmentation champion is Kylie Jenner. But Kim wants a shot at the title again, so that’s why we’re getting lip-close-up selfies. If you note the caption, Kim is trying to make us believe that this is just about lip liner. Sure. Also: I hate “fleek.” Stop trying to make “fleek” happen.

What else is going on in Kardashian World? Well, Kanye went overboard yesterday on his Twitter – go here to see some of his NSFW tweets. Kanye posted screencaps of one of Kim’s naked photoshoots and Kanye brushed off his CAPS LOCK to tell everyone “I’M SO LUCKY” and “CONGRATS BABY ON 30 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS” and “CONGRATS BABY ON THE SHOW PREMIERE LAST NIGHT.” I’ll give him this… I believe he really loves her. For real. He’s crazy, he’s a megalomaniac, he’s an unrepentant narcissist, but he does love her.

Meanwhile, Kim also ‘Shopped/edited some photos of North West to make her eyes light-colored instead of brown (North’s natural eye color). When I was a lot younger, I toyed around with the idea of getting colored contacts, so I kind of wish I had easy access to this kind of technology back then, just to see what I would have looked like with a different eye color. At the end of the day though… Kim is still digitally altering her baby’s photos. I wonder what kind of long-term damage Kim is going to do to North sometimes. I mean, Kim is probably going to raise North like Kris Jenner raised her girls. Which means North will grow up believing that her natural beauty is something that can and should be altered, often through surgery.

Baby Wolfie #NoTheseAreNOTContacts #JustAnEditISawOnline

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Mar 16, 2015 at 10:02am PDT

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You have to hand it to Kathy Griffin. She’s received more press in the past week than she has in years, and she’s earned it. Kathy is really dishing on her brief experience on Fashion Police, which she quit last week, stating in part that she didn’t want to contribute toward a “culture of unattainable perfectionism and intolerance towards difference.” Right before she quit, Kathy said that Fashion Police wanted to start a segment called “wh*re score”, which she disagreed with. She also said that she wouldn’t have said the rude and arguably racially insensitive joke about Zendaya’s dreadlocks that landed Giuliana in hot water, adding that “some dude wrote it for her.”

In an appearance on The View yesterday, Kathy elaborated on her reasons for leaving The View. It was about the scripted kind of canned nature of the show, which she called mean without directly using the word. Kathy of course knew about Fashion Police ahead of time, but she thought she could change the show and was told that they would be accommodating. She said a lot in a very short period of time, I was impressed by how well spoken and well reasoned she was. (You can watch her interview at :20 into the episode on Hulu and there are two segments on YouTube.)

On why she issued a statement
I did a statement because I felt like Fashion Police just wasn’t the thing for me, you know what I mean? My style is improvisational and off the cuff, and they have a formula that worked so well with Joan and so well for so long and it just didn’t fit my thing. After awhile, I kind of felt like I was being forced to comment about pictures of beautiful women in perfect dresses and say bad things.

The days of Bjork are over—and the swan. As a feminist and a comic, it just didn’t feel like the right fit for me.

On how her comedy is different
I love to make fun of Anderson Cooper and I’ve made a cottage industry out of New Year’s Eve, but I would never say Anderson isn’t a great journalist. But sure, I’m going to give him a hard time and I’m going to tease him. I’m a professional comedian, it’s what I do, but it’s in context.

On the difference between standup and Fashion Police
You’re kind of vulnerable. You’re there with the microphone and the audience, and you’re hoping to take this audience on a ride. It’s a little different than what felt to me, sort of like a dog pile. Right now, on the red carpet, all these women look so great. I was hoping that we could talk about the events themselves and the shows and stuff like that. And so I didn’t want to say that Meryl Streep didn’t look great, because she looked great. So sometimes it just felt disingenuous to me. But certainly, in my repertoire, I’ve said heinous things, I’m well aware of that, trust me!

How she felt during Giuliana’s patchouli oil segment
I didn’t know she was going to say that, because some dude wrote that for her, which I didn’t even feel they really needed. I think that everyone should have just improvised… the show is very formulaic and that’s their thing.

She asked Lena Dunham for help with her statement
When it came time to leave they were very nice to me and they weren’t mean and evil. So I actually called I actually called Lena Dunham. I went,’ Okay, Joan was 27 years older than I am, I’m 54. I need like a younger woman feminist to help me craft a statement. She was super generous. I wanted to say it as a comic and a feminist. I’m still going to give people crap…

On what’s next for Fashion Police
Since I don’t work there anymore that’s like asking me what’s going to happen on Ray Donovan, because I don’t know. I think that they had a very strict lane that they wanted to be in. And you guys know my work. I have 23 specials and I say my personal encounters with people and I go for people. But like, I wouldn’t hold up a picture of Kim Kardashian and say ‘She’s ugly, goodnight.’ I wouldn’t hold up a picture of Oprah and say, ‘She’s fat, goodnight.’ I would say, [does impression] ‘Oprah said, John Travolta’s here!’ The behavior and the stuff to play with, and that’s really kind of what I do.

On if she thought she could change the show
I was told that they would happily sign onto my style. It’s kind of like buying a house you don’t really know until you spend the first night there… I really didn’t know until I took the seat. No harm, no foul. It just wasn’t the right thing for me.

[From The View and via US Weekly]

Kathy ended by saying that “there’s a lot of stuff that I said before that I wouldn’t say now and there’s stuff I probably wouldn’t say in five years that I say now. Comedy has to evolve.” The show has a formula that works for them, they have a way they do things, and they weren’t going to change overnight. I really liked the simile that Kathy used about how it’s like buying a house and you don’t know how well it’s going to work out until you try it. In an interview on Howard Stern yesterday, Kathy said something similar, that she probably shouldn’t have taken the job so soon after Joan Rivers passed and that she was just “trying to be me.”

After watching her on The View, I came away with a lot of respect for Kathy and felt like I understood why she left. I also think she made it pretty difficult for Fashion Police to continue business as usual. She just called out their whole style multiple times and in many different ways. I really wonder if they’re going to just hire new hosts and try to pick up where they left off, or if they’ll consider her feedback and try to change.

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Here’s a photo of Scott Disick on Saturday night in Atlantic City. He was hosting at The Pool After Dark club. Scott kept it together for still shots, but he was reportedly downing tequila and beer all night. TMZ published a profanity-filled video of Scott screaming that London could suck his “d*** and balls” for telling him not to swear during an appearance there. The next morning, he was spotted stumbling around the Harrah’s hotel lobby. An employee escorted Scott to his room, and he slept through check-out time by 6 hours.

Things must have gotten even more messy because TMZ says Scott checked into rehab on Monday. Not just any old rehab. He entered a facility in Costa Rica, which is known for its alternative treatment for substance abuse. This rehab uses the herb Ibogaine, a hallucinogen (derived from plant roots) to fend off addictive cravings. Here’s the lowdown:

Scott Disick has decided to go to rehab, after an insane, tequila-fueled weekend.

Disick checked into Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica. He says, “I realize my issues are bigger than me and I’m ready to truly remedy this struggle I continue to battle.”

Scott was in Atlantic City over the weekend where he did multiple shots of tequila right out in the open. He then went on a rant onstage and ended the night at 8 AM, where he was stumbling in the hotel lobby without shoes. At 5 PM people went to his room to do a welfare check when he was MIA.

Scott has had multiple problems with alcohol and has vowed to maintain his sobriety, especially after his girlfriend Kourtney gave him an ultimatum.

As for his treatment, he says he is doing Iboga treatment, which involves roots from a small African tree that supposedly helps people battle addiction.

As for the facility, Rythmia is located on a private estate offering a “luxurious world-class experience” including a five-star restaurant, full-service spa with mud bath, and fitness center.

[From TMZ]

Scott’s been on a downslide ever since both of his parents died in late 2013, which left him devastated. He was hospitalized last year for alcohol poisoning (on his birthday). Last fall, Scott checked into rehab, saying, “I thought I was going to die.” He also spoke of not being able to break his routine and being “sick of hearing myself talk about the problems I have that I don’t fix.”

E! says this Costa Rica center isn’t new to Scott: “He’s been there recently once before and he liked it. He believes in it. He doesn’t have to be dragged there or anything. This is his thing and really wants to do it. He’s working on his issues.” People adds that Kourtney is beyond tired of Scott’s excuses, and he “has to realize that his actions have consequences that go far beyond himself.”

Of course — because this involves the Kardashian Klan — some outlets question Scott’s motives. The New York Daily News spoke to an “insider” who says Scott must certainly be getting paid to endorse the rehab, but there’s no evidence to support this claim. Yes … Kris Jenner will use Scott’s plight for press and ratings, and god only knows this family doesn’t provide any type of support system. But I can buy that Scott legitimately requires alcohol rehab. Let’s hope he finally gets the help he needs.

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