Topic : 03/05 Anna and Britney: Behind the Headlines

HERE IS THE BEST WAY I KNOW TO EXPLAIN THIS........AND I AM VERY ILL WITH LUPUS AND BY YOU JUST ACTING LIKE IT IS NO BIG DEAL HAS MADE ME SICKER BECAUSE IF LUPUS PEOPLE GET ANGRY OR UPSET THEY GET WORSE.  SO...I AM WORSE TONIGHT.  AND YES!  I KNOW IT IS RUDE TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS BUT I AM UPSET AND ANGRY!!

IMAGINE WALKING THROUGH A MINEFIELD.  AFTER THE FIRST BLOW YOU BECOME RELATIVELY CONSCIOUS, YET YOU HAVE TO KEEP WALKING.  THE FURTHER YOU GET, THE MORE CONFIDENT YOU FEEL.  YOU DECIDE TO WALK FASTER AND CARRY ON MORE RESPONSIBILITIES.  THEN COMES ANOTHER BLOW AND THE DAMAGE IS DONE.  YOU KEEP ON WALKING.  WHEN WILL THE NEXT BLOW COME?  HOW MUCH DAMAGE WILL IT CAUSE?  WILL IT BE THE FINAL ONE????

IMAGINE TAKING THAT WALK FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITY OF NOT BEING THE POSSESSOR OF YOUR OWN MIND.  ALL YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS WHICH DIRECT YOUR ACTIONS, DECISIONS AND STATEMENTS, NOT BELONGING TO YOU BUT TO A SCIENTIST'S BEAKER.

IMAGINE BEING THE PRODUCT OF THAT SCIENTIST'S LABORATORY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

IMAGINE HAVING ONE OF THE MOST INTRICATE, COMPLEX, AND POWERFUL FRIENDS IN THE WORLD, YOUR DEFENSE SYSTEM.  NOW THAT FRIEND HAS BECOME YOUR ENEMY AND CAN ATTACK YOU WITH THE SAME CONCENTRATED INTENSITY AS IT IS CAPABLE OF.

THIS TURNOVER HAS SHIFTED TO OFFENSE, AND WILL TURN BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN, BUT YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHEN.

IMAGINE HAVING THIS FRIEND AS A NEMESIS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

IF YOU CAN TRULY IMAGINE  THESE THREE THINGS.........THEN YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE LUPUS!!

MY SISTER IN LAW LOST HER BABY SISTER TO LUPUS WHEN HER SISTER WAS ONLY 22.  I SAW THAT BEAUTIFUL GIRL LAYING IN THAT COFFIN AND KNEW I HAD A HUGE FIGHT AHEAD OF ME BECAUSE I HAD JUST BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH LUPUS.  I WOULD LIKE FOR SOMEONE TO TELL HER PARENTS AND SISTERS AND OTHER FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT MELISSA DID NOT DIE FROM LUPUS.

I HAVE SO MANY THINGS WRONG THAT I WILL LEAVE SOME OUT BUT HERE ARE SOME OF THEM RELATED TO LUPUS.

RAYNAUDS PHENOMENON, SEVERE ARTHRITIS, LUPUS MIGRAINES, SJOGRENS SYNDROME, ANXIETY DISORDER.  I HAVE RUNNING INFECTING SORES ON MY SKIN.  I GET ULCERS IN MY MOUTH.  I SOMETIMES HURT SO BAD I START SCREAMING AND CAN'T STOP AND I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO HELP ME.  I HAVE SO MANY THINGS WRONG THAT IT WILL TAKE TOO MUCH TIME AND I ALREADY HAVE TAKEN UP TOO MUCH SPACE.

MAYBE ONE DAY YOU CAN DO A SHOW ABOUT PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST LOVED ONES OR ARE TAKING CARE OF VERY ILL LOVED ONES WITH LUPUS.

Hi I have been a fan of Britney's for a long time, she is a great performer regardless of alot of bad press that she has received over the years.  She is a beautiful girl, that has worked hard from a very young age, to have achieved what she has..

Since her marriage Britney has undergone a lot of stress which a lot of women do...Sometimes love is blind as we all know, her husband may love her but I think he caused her some pain when he left her alone  with a new child and would party with other women.  I think there is some behind the scenes that we as (gossip readers and viewers) did not pay attention to.  Her husband mentioned that he liked her at home with the kids, maybe he gave her pressure in regards to her career, so he could attempt to be "the man of the house".  Even though Britney loves her second child, maybe she did not want to have another child so close to the first one.  If we recall during the beginning of her second pregnancy Britney always looked upset and depressed for a while. 

So now we have a young women who has worked already since she was about 15 years old basically being the provider of her entire family.  She started her own family, has a husband who never saw money like this before, she needs to continue to work to keep her career on top, and raise two children.  OK, yes she is unlike the norm and can afford a lot of help, but come on, most people could not handle all this at her age. 

So she is depressed, the media is ALWAYS in her face.  So she went a little crazy with the partying and her children needed her.  I think she deserves time and privacy to deal with her issues.  Having  a young family that is dependent on you, is stressful. Divorce is stressful, and did we ever think that maybe she really loves her husband but he wasn't giving the support she needed.  Now he seems to us (the viewers) to be supporting her, OH WOW now that she is in rehab.  Well maybe he should have done that a long time ago and gave Britney like any new mother the love and care she needed.

I suggest that Britney is left alone, and I hope that her children are back with her and safe with her love and care again soon.  

I do sympathize with all and anyone with medicala and/or mental-emotional conditions.

I do not intend to take anything away from the adults with troubles themselves!

These children caught in the gray area of gossiping, media attention and battles are an

example of why we all should stop seeing stars as some kind of role model for our children.

I watched some of Anna's reality Tv show, it was very hard to watch sometimes. Anna definately had problems long ago and also was not a great Mother as she did drugs with him and around him all his life.  She was a sexual exhibitionist for any occasion and it made her money and famous. Anna showed anyone who watched it that she would not have listened if soemone did try to help her.  She was stubborn on getting her way and doing whatever she wanted regardless of others being hurt.  I did not dislike her, I seen her movie about her life and felt empathy for her troubles.  Money was one of her highest priorities with her looks. She left people who did love her and did not hurt or abuse her when she had money, that spoke volumes about her ethics so her Mother may not have been such a monster as many depict her now. I do not feel that she deserved some of the jokes and crappy comments from other stars.  Even Jim carey went way out of line with claiming the wish bone on a national news prgram.

Even the Entertainment Tonight was over money not a friendship or thought of welbeing for her?

I doubt Anna made rational decisions over her children, her Mother or her life, that is sad!  From my perspective that is.  I have so much more sympathy for the children in these cases.  What is the man caring for this baby thinking not even letting the grieving Grandmother hold her granddaughter?  It really does nto matter what happened so many years ago, the last conection to her daughter was kept from her?  Please? That was vengeful and evil.  If he knew Anna so well he knew she did not make sound decisions.  The baby had a right to be given a chance with her only link to her Mother: regardless of past events, the chance should have been to make a better life for this child? Starting with forgiveness for what no one really knows for sure.

yes the Mother probably was neglectful and some kind of abuse in Anna's childhood or teen years but she does not deserve a life sentense of that nature anymore.  She is still the Grandmother!  That is the only relationship anyone knows for sure!  Please let our courts not play into any drama of 'star struck' for this baby's sake and find out the real parents and protect the baby from being a victim of that money that definately has a negative attachment to it.

Brit is a victim of her own choices for the most part.  She uses the media when she has a new CD to sell?  I do sympathize if there is another problem but I do not think it excuses her lact of priority toward her children.  That is what Kevin is doing making the children a priority.  Yes if her hormones are messed up she needs help and many things may not be all her fault.  I do not think the hormones are so intrusive to keep her from putting the children ahead of her parties or

running around the town?  She needs to grow up is my opinion and fast.  Of course get the treatment she needs but as we do not excuse any other mother who is not a star we also should not excuse those in the light when it envolves children being hurt or in possible harms way?  Children first means just that!  No matter who it is, what the do for money or fame, no one has a right to be excused of the obvious neglect and abuse the children suffer in a justification of any kind because the parent is famous?  Let the children have some peace from our hunger for gossip and pictures,  how does a baby feel while mourning a parent?  maybe the arms of her Grandmother could have helped that, maybe not but shouldn't the childs welfare came before a old anger of punishment by a obviously troubled daughter?  If the Grandmother shows any signs of being abusive or harming the child that would be much different but that did not show!  How lame: the mother mustr be the fault for so much?  Absolutely some but not all and not forever!

Brit made most of her money of young people or children: show some respect for that Brit while you get help to get back to what should be your number one priority: being a Mom!

To our Legal system please protect the small little girl from the same kind of troubles: do nto let any adult having custody of this child have control over money that only needs used to protect her fromt he same picture taking, enterviews and media gossiping that showed us what they wanted us to see: they make the news not report it !

That Judge: did you all see how pathetic our legal system can be?  He showed us true stupidity!

One person said she had Lupus, it is not a fact, just was said.  With so much gossip over Anna, he is right to avoid it until it is known?  I seen Anna's movie about her life a few times years ago, she had much more contributing factors of negative in her life long before this news?

Lupus is a horrible desease, so is the over prescribed drugs by doctors  that contributes to many deaths, addictions and children being harmed?

So many people speaking out as if the children are in soem kind of abstract?  Even the host of Entertainment Tonight beign as if a friend?  NO, he made money off Anna through giving us Gossip because it was just that. 

maybe Dr. Phil can do a show about Lupus, ask him, this show was about Anna and Brit and the children hurt in the media mess of famous people.

I realize that I can't comprehend the amount of pressure that Britney Spears is under, but much of it is caused by choices.  I do have an opinion on one thing.  Rehab is a gift not to be taken lightly, and I am offended that she is allowed to call all the shots with this rehab center. Checking in and out, then blocking off rooms, just because she can afford to, is simply indulging further bad behavior!  This is disruptive and disrespectful to the other individuals who are supposedly there for treatment and taking it seriously.  Rehab for celebrities seems to mean -place to hide away from the media and photographers, but should not be used this way, and I have no respect for a facility that would allow this for a price!

This little girl is definitely in trouble, but some of this is bad behavior is being indulged.  She needs serious treatment, where she can't call the shots, and frankly I think she is screaming out for help!  Who do you trust, when you have a bunch of yes people around you giving you lip service? Her most recent behavior indicates rebellion, and she needs some real professional help that she can't control and manipulate!  Dr Phil, you should start a therapy center for celebrities - there is certainly a need.

I think Dr. Phil did say Lupus can become very serious to the individual.  But I agree he did say it was not death threatening when in fact I believe it is when it reaches a certain level.  I had a friend who suffered with Lupus and died in her 50's several years ago.   I also have another friend who's sister has been diagnosed with Lupus since she was a little girl who is now reaching age of 40 and has not had any complications from it.  I believe Dr. Phil's message was that Lupus is not something you get and then always die from.