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Fallen Idols Or Lessons For Life? - Celebrities Between Rehab And Role Models by Katharina Murer
There is a growing amount of people who suggest for teenagers - and most anybody else - to stay away from pop stars. They fall for alcohol, they commit crimes, do drugs. They live the life we should dream about and yet, they much too often break doing so. Do celebrities make bad role models? Should we better stay away from confronting ourselves with them? What influence do they have on our personal life? A miserable example of a fallen idol or someone we can learn something from? How about Robbie Williams?
"Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time." (Robbie Williams)
Drugs, alcohol, crimes, social misbehaviour. They exist and they exist even where we would expect them the least. It's not only the pubs in the workers' districts where addictions arise, you can find weed-smokers in the most respectable families, you can purchase cocaine in elite colleges or find C-level staff abusing prescription drugs. People feeling helpless, desperate or needy, being unable to deal with what they are facing, on the search for an escape, can be found anywhere. And one of these places is also the yellow press.
"When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!" (RW)
Some people love to see their idols suffer. Or stars they dislike. Pictures of celebrities in such situations reach incredible sales prices. A popular explanation is that readers like to see the rich and beautiful stumble, just as they stumble. That even successes, fortune and stardom can not save them from the too common weaknesses of the human spirit. It's not only the average feeling miserable.But when we take off the prying eyes and look behind those stories that might, in the essence, be so similar to those familiar to us, why don't we take a look and see what often we love to oversee? The way that these people walk to come back where they belong?
"I had to stop drinking. The thing was, I didn't know how to do it. I needed to be dowsed in cold water and told not to be silly, so that's what I did in rehab-I dowsed myself in cold water and told myself not to be silly!" (RW)
Rehab is not a success for every celebrity. Just as it is not successful for anyone. Might they have more choices, and might they have a nicer room, the fight stars have to put up is just the same, and their likeliness to fail is just the same. For 'anyone' this fight is a truly private matter, for celebrities it hardly ever is. Might this have the benefit of sometimes overwhelming support, it might also come with overwhelming pressure.
Some celebrities have been blamed, or maybe even blame themselves for being bad role models to the millions who adore them. Some of them might really be, some give amazing examples of how you can turn around and fight back, even if life takes you to the limits of bearable pain. Most celebrities don't encounter miracle healing, and at times this process is harder, longer, and filled with more backlashes then they want to show, or their marketing departments can deal with. Just like any other addict, they suffer failures. Just like any other addict, the road to success is open to them at any time. It might take even more courage to live through it but with the side effect of enabling those who watch and tremble to follow them and take up the courage to finally step out and fight what they should have fought so long ago.
"I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink." (RW)
In many ways Robbie Williams has been and still is such an example. He has been through a lot of suffering, and speculation about the roots would possibly fill books. His childhood has been one many experienced similar, his rise to a pop star was dreamlike. Robbie Williams fell, and he fell more then once. But different from many, he also got up again. Different from very many people, and still facing many challenges, he has succeeded in challenging himself and his troubles. Might it be a lifelong challenge, and might the way bear many backlashes. Temptation waits at any corner and low days always come. Robbie Williams can be blamed for much, and he can be held responsible for many mistakes and many impasses he, maybe even knowingly, ran into. There is however one thing that Robbie Williams has earned himself a reputation for, and that one thing is getting up again. It has earned him the recognition of many, whatever you might think of him otherwise. And something not too many people, celebrity or not, have managed: To take action against yourself. Maybe the hardest challenge, not only for celebrities, but for anyone.
"Don't take drugs. They're a lot of fun, but really bad. They make you feel good, but then sad. So don't take drugs." (RW)
We don't know if Rob's current fight is won, and we don't know whether it will be the last one. But while many people stumble and fall, not everyone gets up to his/her feet and makes a true effort to carry on better at the end of the day. Respect, Mr Williams.
About the Author
Katharina Murer, alias "Kathi M", is well known for writing controversial articles about Robbie Williams' life and career. She has previously written for the BBC online Staffordshire and is currently active as a reporter for http://www.purerobbie.com where further articles and creative writing can be found.
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