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Redmond O'Neal Headed Back to Rehab, Not Prison

Sounds like the judge has some sympathy for Redmond O'Neal. The son of actor Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, O'Neal, 26, faced jail time after being arrested earlier this month for possession of heroin and a firearm -- but on Wednesday, O'Neal was instead sentenced to a year in rehab.

"We are pleased and grateful that the judge gave Redmond further treatment rather than incarceration," O'Neal's attorneys told People. "His history of addiction warrants this approach."

In order to strike a plea deal, O'Neal -- who has a history of drug-related legal problems -- pleaded no contest to the charges of drug and gun possession.

After Redmond's previous court hearing, father Ryan told the press that Redmond hadn't been the same since his mother Farrah's death in 2009. "He never recovered from the loss of his mother," said the 70-year-old Love Story actor. "That's the part that hurts the most. He doesn't know how to resolve it for himself, so he gets in trouble."

Redmond had been held without bail until Wednesday's hearing, and will now spend a year in inpatient treatment, plus five years' probation. His arrest, as the judge put it, is "part of an ongoing pattern." In 2009, the year of that his mother died, O'Neal was incarcerated for probation violation stemming from an earlier drug arrest. In 2010, he graduated from an intense court-ordered drug rehabilitation program, after which he declared his intention "to move forward with my life, clean and sober." But with or without the media spotlight, the road to sobriety can be challenging.

"He's an addict," half-sister Tatum O'Neal, who's had her own struggles with drugs, told reporters earlier this month. "Addicts keep using until they want to stop. We're praying for him every day."

Source: http://www.ivillage.com/redmond-oneal-headed-back-rehab-not-prison/1-a-376174

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By Gil Kaufman


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Ke$ha knows all about the perks of being a headliner. On her Get $leazy Tour, the singer gets to call all the shots, blast her fans in the face with tons of glitter and handpick which dudes she wants to party and share the stage with.

But it's not all backstage shenanigans and groupie love. When MTV News sat down with the "Blow" singer in New York earlier this week before her gig at Roseland Ballroom, Ke$ha said that amid the nightly onstage parties there have also been some poignant moments on her first headlining outing.

"Best moment? There are so many. Every night's amazing. I have kids outside right now chanting my name and it's awesome," she said of the first leg of the tour. "There was one night a fan came onstage, I invited him onstage, and he had a tattoo of the dollar sign. I was like, 'Oh, that's awesome! Badass. You're part of the cult, man.' "

And then, she said, he began to cry and explained that he was able to come out of the closet to his friends and family thanks to her song "Animal."

"And I'm standing onstage about to sing a song about growing back a pair of testicles ["Grow a Pear"] and I had tears rolling down my face and chills all over my body," she said. "Because that's really the reason I do music, to inspire people to be themselves."

Ke$ha has been a vocal supporter of the "It Gets Better" video project, which aims to help gay, bisexual and transgender youth find hope in the face of teasing and bullying.

The "Get $leazy" juggernaut continues on Saturday night with a show at Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania.

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