As we discussed briefly yesterday, Brandi Glanville got pretty drunk for her birthday party over the weekend. She was seen exiting a bar on Saturday night, and while she wasn’t being “carried” out, she was leaning on a friend. I’d say she wasn’t fall down drunk, but she was still pretty wasted. And when TMZ’s cameraman asked her about Joanna Krupa wearing a “Team Rimes” shirt, Brandi replied, “Sounds FISHY!” Which is pretty funny. Sorry. I can’t help it, that was funny. As for Brandi and her drinking (and tweeting), Radar claims that the other Real Housewives wanted to do an intervention:
Brandi Glanville refused to participate in a dramatic on-air intervention that was spearheaded by her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills costar Kim Richards, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned. Richards, 49, who herself has struggled with alcoholism, has grown increasingly concerned for the health of Eddie Cibrian’s ex-wife, a source revealed.
“Kim believes that Brandi is an alcoholic and needs to get help,” the production insider revealed to Radar. “Producers of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills wanted to stage an intervention for Brandi that would have aired on the fourth series of the Bravo show.”
But after Glanville, 41, found out about the planned intervention, “she shot it down… immediately!” Said the source: “Brandi didn’t want to be a part of it and insisted she doesn’t have a drinking problem… she didn’t want her kids to see it (either).”
Said a second source: “Producers had pitched for Kim or Lisa to do the intervention, but Brandi refused… she felt Kim doing it would be ‘the blind leading the blind’ because of her own past issues.”
The failed intervention plan followed the infamous incident in July when the reality star partied, stumbled and lost part of her dress during a boozy night out in Hollywood.
Since, she’s been snapped wasted again — this time, at the weekend, leaving Fleming’s Prime Steak House & Wine Bar in Beverly Hills where she celebrated her birthday with friends.
In an email to VH1 Gossip Table host Rob Shuter on Monday, Glanville blasted rumors that “friends” were concerned about her ongoing behavior.
She wrote: “Omg so dumb! No one is worried we had a fun night yes we all had bday shots and a great time we left flemings in bh to a sea of flash bulbs and then we went and danced our butts off.”
But Radar can reveal those friends included all members of the RHOBH cast, including Kyle Richards, Lisa Vanderpump, Yolanda Foster and Joyce Giraud, but not Carlton Gebbia, who our source noted has “become very good friends with Brandi.”
Yeah, Kim Richards is not the person I would want to talk to about anyone else’s addiction problems. Since I don’t watch the show, I only know Kim from occasional interviews and from photos, where she appears to be a woman who still heavily self-medicates with alcohol and pills (probably). As for Brandi… I don’t know. I actually have my doubts about whether she’s really an alcoholic or whether she’s just a woman who likes to party and doesn’t know when to stop. She’s already got one DUI under her belt, and there are plenty of photos of her looking pretty hammered, so maybe she should consider toning it down with the alcohol. I just feel like you get to a certain age and you realize several things: one, you can have a good time with your friends and it doesn’t have to include booze; two, being fall-down drunk isn’t attractive beyond a certain age; three, drowning your sorrows only makes you sadder. Why hasn’t Brandi realized this?
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There’s nothing attractive about getting so loaded that you can’t walk without help. That show….those women….I guess it’s today’s version of ancient Romans watching some hapless schlub getting tossed to the lions. Guess we haven’t really progressed much since then have we.
Ha ha..that’s a great analogy.
Yeah..I’m not sure she’s an alcoholic (maybe?) but she seems to have trouble knowing her limit.
Also, anyone with a DUI…ugh. Can’t defend that in any capacity.
You’ve actually given a pretty good definition of alcoholic in your post, TOK. Trouble with knowing her limit translates to not knowing when to stop which is the hallmark of an alcoholic.
She’s only 41?
Kim Richards leading an intervention is comedy gold.
THIS.
Ha!
Seriously. I have houseplants smarter than Kim Richards.
LMAO!!!!! Best comment so far today. 🙂
That’s funny…and sadly true.
LAK — I actually disagree with you on this.
( which surprises me because I usually agree and enjoy your posts)
I think Kim Richards would not be that bad.
She has been thru the mill, and she is a kind-spirited, gentle person. I think she has come a long way on the last few seasons.
I would never recommend doing anything for the camera, but Kim would not be horrible or the worst person
If it is even true, then yeah I don’t blame her at all. An on-air intervention is a horrible idea! If her co-stars were truly worried about her, they would be planning an intervention privately.
Right, an intervention should be private, but these yahoos will do anything on camera for the almighty ratings.
Absolutely. If the other housewives were serious about it they wouldn’t need or want the cameras rolling. Plus, the other housewives aren’t Brandi’s real friends. They don’t know what she’s doing during her off-air time. Wouldn’t her real friends do an intervention if her drinking was a real problem?
Totally agree. No one should have an intervention on tv, for crying out loud. Morons.
Totally agree. Unfortunately, this show and the other “Real” “Housewives”, shows, none of which are either, are designed and built as a trainwreck so in that context it’s pretty typical. It’s sort of meant to wreck their lives. I wish they would take it off the air, it’s dumbing everybody, and not just the subjects.
Yeah, this. If someone has an illness with a psychological component as well as the physical, massive publicity and using it as ratings bait is a horrible thing to do to them. And she’s right about the impact on her kids, too – who wants to see that for their mom?
She’s too arrogant to get help. She’s too arrogant to realize that she has a middle-school caliber foul mouth and she’s too arrogant to realize that she can’t behave however she wants for the rest of her life just because she was wronged in her marriage. What a loser.
Bitter much. Miss Rimes or Jo fishy ?
You can call Brandi a lot if names – but arrogant? I’ve never gotten that vibe from her.
Just speaking from experience, people who won’t even consider getting help or won’t even consider that they have a problem are too arrogant to listen or admit it. Maybe there is a better word, I don’t know. I could also go with “trash-mouthed mess” or “immature disaster”
And Bitter do you really still think that every person who isn’t a Brandi fan must be on Team Leanne? FYI I used to like Brandi, never liked Leanne, but B’s immature and crude behavior has totally turned me off. I don’t get how anyone is still supporting her at this point.
Patricia: oh ok, now I get why you’re using the word arrogant. I guess I’m still not totally on-board w/her being an alcoholic.
Patricia, I don’t know enough about her or this to comment on whether she has a problem, but I don’t think hawking that problem to sell advertising space on a TV show is exactly getting help, either. Rejecting that offer is evidence of sound mind more than arrogance, surely?
Totally agree Patricia…
I hope she can get help and disentangle herself from that leAnn Eddie mess.
Ya know, I’ve been getting an arrogant vibe from her also lately. Too bad, she’s not smart enough to sustain long term success.
she would never want to detangle herself from eddie and leann. that is her claim to fame. ok she was a model, have you ever heard of her before the leann and eddie fiasco?
Snakecharmer: You didn’t hear of her before the dicorce bc she was, by choice, a full-time stay-at-home housewife, raising two young boys. She didn’t want or need you to know who she was.
If she has an addiction, denial is one of the glaring signs, it’s not arrogance, it’s part of the disease.
You must be one of Leanne’s buddy’s.
Looks like she had a good time- it was her birthday 🙂 I’d party uber hard if I had the $$- alas that life was not for me…..
Here’s the thing; after you hit 25 it’s not cute anymore. If you can’t walk, or your clothes fall off, then it’s a little tacky. There’s nothing wrong with having drinks with friends. But you can blow off some steam, while still being able to walk.
..or you can go ahead and get wasted, but not in public. Just keep it inside your house for a private party or at a friend’s house etc and most of all, DON’T DRIVE.
It’s just dumb to get that trashed in public when you have kids and you know you’re gonna get papped. Common effin’ sense.
Right. stay home, or go to a friend’s house. She knows she’s going to papd, and being a sloppy drunk is never a good look. Please don’t drink and drive!! Also, if your kids ask you about your picture being wacked out, and you can’t explain it. Then yes, you have a problem.
Exactly! Get tipsy at someone’s house – not at a restaurant you publicly posted ahead of time on Twitter that you were going to.
Just make sure they’re not filming when you’re at the friend’s house. This season there’s going to be a scene of Brandi chugging from a plastic bottle of clear fluid, while someone’s trying to wrestle it away from her. That scene certainly gives the impression she has a big problem.
I’d argue getting falling down drunk is not attractive at any age.
Agreed, just what I was thinking, and that goes for men too. Just sayin’
There always exists such a thing as a “limit”. Knowing that is a sign of maturity, to say the least. There is that line where you have to realize that one more shot is going to make your legs stop working, or cause you to throw up, etc.
i don’t know how people can bare to drink to that point, let alone going past it.
Sounds like alcohol is a coping mechanism for her. She should find an alternative way to deal with her issues.
Brandi is disgusting and a drunk. She was swigging from a bottle on last weeks show blathering on “I need a drink” after moving two boxes.
There’s already a show called “intervention”- maybe Brandi could shoot a spot? All kidding aside, does no one connected with these shows care one iota for these women? It reminds me of all the well deserved criticism MTV got several years back for their inaction towards cast members of Real World who clearly had problems.
I wonder how her new book, Drinking & Dating, will sell. I just don’t see it doing well. Reading about Brandi drinking and screwing and dating losers at the age of 40 and reading advice from her I will pass on finding entertaining, but who knows. Maybe others will like it.
jayna thats why sex and the city was offputting to me, even tho i liked it. watching old ladies skank it up is gross. shes blabing about joanna being stank? yikes. lets not even entertain that train of though for various reasons…
Wow! With the exception of the Samantha character the ladies on the show were in their 30’s. Old ladies? I think not. Apparently you missed the whole point the show which was women trying to find a balance between a career and relationships post women’s lib.
Brandi has been with the same man, JR, for the last year. Try to stick with the facts.
I can’t really blame her. An on-camera intervention is ridiculous. If the other women were ACTUALLY concerned they’d deal with it off camera. All they are concerned with is their paycheck, though, so there’s that.
I don’t think she’s an alcoholic. I think she’s extremely bad at knowing her limit. It was her birthday and she overindulged. She should have drank less, or done this at home or someone’s house. Away from paps.
While I used to totally agree that she just didn’t know her limits, I didn’t know until this article that she had a DUI. To me, all bets are now off. It has already been proven that alcohol clouds her judgement considerably. But to continue getting totally tanked, in public no less, I mean…that is just tragic. Get your shit together. Or at least lock it up in public. And for f*cks sake, if you’re going to get hammered in public, wear some pants.
(I hate being a judgy shrew but COME ON.)
Omg exactly! It was her birthday ffs! If Brandi is an alcoholic then so are all of my friends…especially the ones without children. And we are in our 30’s. Brandi only has her kids part time and I bet she only binges when thy are with their dad. She is a sloppy drunk though…big time! Lol
Yeah, I’ve got news for you, being falling down drunk isn’t attractive at ANY age. But I will agree the older you are the scale goes from ha ha ha to oh, that’s just sad.
I don’t blame her for refusing an on-camera ‘intervention’. Whatever stage of realization you’re in, who needs that shit? If it’s that important, off camera would be more genuine.
I’m not a Brandi fan but I doubt she needs an intervention. Geesh. She needs a common sense infusion, that’s all. And if she did need and intervention RHOBH is the last show she needs to cover it. Her friend Jennifer could do it quietly.
Here are two things I don’t get about Brandi:
1. Why the fight with her Dad? = I don’t buy that it was about her slutty Oscar dress
2. What is her obsession with the cheating rumors about Kyle’s husband? = It would be one thing if she was bringing it up because she wanted to warn Kyle as to what her husband was doing behind her back and help her deal with it. But clearly that is not her objective. She’s not bringing this up because she is the kind person that hates to see her friend being cheated on and no one says anything. She just seems vindictive – kinda na na boo boo your husband is cheating on you I’m gonna rub it in.
Maybe she is focused on Mauricio cheating on Kyle because Mauricio has hit on her several times.
And for all who are curious, I am basing this on absolutely nothing. I have no inside knowledge on anything.
Do you read the Vulture.com write ups on RHOBH? There was a train of thought in the comments along those lines throughout last season with regards Mauricio’s behaviour towards Brandi.
I remember reading somewhere that he might have been handsy with Camille, but that still doesn’t explain Brandi’s mean girl obsession with bringing it up to Kyle
Actually, the cheating rumors have ALWAYs been around particularly in the comment sections of blogs who cover RHWBH. And while they are usually anonymous they are always people who formerly worked with him or know them socially. Smoke, fire.
Although I totally believe that they force storylines, Kyle can’t handle it because the girls got her number.
On camera intervention won’t work and I don’t blame her. If she has a problem she needs to get help privately and swiftly. Those living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, Kim. I do however think Brandi needs to tone down the public drinking outings as well as her mouth.
She’s tacky, crass, and lacks tact but a few isolated incidents where she drank too much isn’t cause for an intervention—I don’t blame her for not wanting an intervention.
I do agree she needs to be aware of how much she’s drinking (we all do) but until I see her drinking EVERY episode or papped daily drunk, I’m a chalk it up to her inability to be discreet.
There have been stories from members of other RH franchises that have stated that Brandi gets drunk and aggressive at almost every event Bravo hosts. So it may not be just a 2x’s a year thing.
Two tispy issues on camera in one year and one of which being a birthday… Not exactly intervention worthy. Although it would make good tv. You cannot deny that. She just needs to realize she’s in the public eye and now has a reputation of drinking to excess so she needs to simmer down. She has a book coming out soon and needs people to think she’s fun and crazy not just crazy.
She wrote an entire book glamorizing her alcohol abuse. O.o
She’s a boozehound. She’s had a DUI; has gotten sloppy, fall-down drunk two times in public since the DUI; wrote a book with “Drinking” in the freaking title. Drinkety, drankety, drunk.
She doesn’t need a televised intervention. She needs family and real friends to quietly and confidentially talk to her about her drinking. Everyone has their own bottom. A photograph of myself unable to walk without assistance, grossly disheveled, with my tampon string visible … That would be my rock bottom.
I have never seen this show; I’ve only seen this woman on this site here and I can’t stand what I see. That being said, I absolutely don’t blame her for shooting the idea down. It’s bad enough she’s allowing any of her antics to be recorded and broadcasted for all to see, but I would never want my children to see me the subject of an intervention orchestrated by a bunch of disgusting idle gossips.
LOL at Brandi Glanville not wanting other people bringing up her personal business in front of a camera.
“I just feel like you get to a certain age and you realize several things: one, you can have a good time with your friends and it doesn’t have to include booze; two, being fall-down drunk isn’t attractive beyond a certain age; three, drowning your sorrows only makes you sadder. Why hasn’t Brandi realized this?”
That makes perfect sense as long as you’re not an alcoholic. There’s a time when your behaviour stops being a choice and becomes compulsive. Even if you absolutely don’t want to be a sad old fall down drunk, by the end of the night you are.
Exactly.
I really don’t have a problem with Brandi getting blitzed on her birthday but doing it in public is simply bad. She’s a good mother and takes care of business but her drinking seems to be full throttle or nothing at all. With poor TV ratings, I hope this isn’t the beginning of the end of her 15 minutes.
For gods sake, last season Kim Richards laid an intervention on Taylor as well, hasn’t she got anything better to do with her last two remaining brain cells??? How about doing an intervention on Kyles’ monumentally tragic mall hair circa 1987 hairstyles???? God they both make me dry heave……. *throaty laugh/hair flip*
Pandora — shame on you for making me defend Kyle. Tsk tsk.
But Kyle hardly has 80’s mall hair.
Won’t argue with the throaty laugh or the hair flips.
But Kyle has gorgeous, currently styled hair. Her hair is a beautiful asset. And her skin is holding up amazingly as well.
Lol ok 😀
Kim Richards might not be a great person to do an intervention, but she would be able to spot an alcoholic a mile away. All of Brandi’s PR disasters as of late have been alcohol related. When you are having consequences because of your drinking, and you continue to drink, there’s a problem. Rob Ford anyone?
How soon so many seem to have forgetten that Brandi herself has been very vocal-in her book and some interviews-about the fact that there have been times in her life, particularly after her divorce, in which she realized that she was drinking alcoholicly and should have sought help.
Here is a 40-something year old woman who behaves like a high school girl on a regular basis, on almost every level. It’s all very sad. However, I have to say that it cracks me up a bit that she’s totally fine if her young sons see pics of/find out about her being SO DRUNK that she’s spilling out of her clothes or falling on the street while leaving bars, but for her, risking them seeing a televised intervention for her would be completely out of the question. Because, you know, THAT would be traumatic and inappropriate. Ugh.
I think she is a massive attention whore and all of her behavior is designed to get her maximum attention. Case in point: on last night’s show, she stripped in front of the camera and got into her bathtub. Even my husband was like–WTF is that about? I mean, come on, you couldn’t film the conversation with your girlfriend *anywhere* except your bathtub??
I don’t know if she’s an alcoholic or not. But she is definitely a candidate for living in a van down by the river, that’s for sure.
(Also, hanging head in shame that I watch RHBH! But I love the house and fashion porn. Could care less about the manufactured drama.)
I can’t believe the big deal people are making over these birthday photos. Did she fall on the ground ala Lohan? Does she have a tit falling out? Did she puke on the floor? If not, let the woman celebrate her birthday.
I don’t know if Brandi has a drinking problem or not. I just think she’s beautiful.
I really like Brandi and the way she’s dealt with EC/LR is admirable. Finding out your husband is a sociopath who brought a psychopath into your life and that of your kids’ lives is unendurable. For the most part, she’s handled that well. However, I believe that the stress gets to her, as it would to anyone. And, truly, there’s a difference between being true to yourself and refusing to grow up. I grew up with alcoholics, and Brandi doesn’t strike me as one. She does strike me as someone who reverts to immature ways of socializing and resists giving up bad habits. She’s a good mother, but when her kids are gone- and I believe that’s hideously painful- she needs to work on setting herself and them up for life. And finding other ways to socialize.
I don’t think she’s an alcoholic. I do think she drinks too much when she does drink, so I guess maybe she’s a binge drinker. I don’t put that in the same category as a full-blown alcoholic. That’s not to say she shouldn’t tone it down, she should, but I really think she just likes to party.
I think everybody needs to lighten up on Brandi. She is not required to fit anybodys mold of who or what she should be. She is who she is. Her very best friend in real life, Jennifer Giminez, has been in recovery for many years and I am sure if Brandi had a serious problem she would be the first one to help her. Brandi helped Jennifer find recovery many years ago. You can’t go by anything Radar Online says or any publicity coming out about RHOBH. She did nothing wrong on her birthday and everybody is trying to crucify her for getting tipsy. Big deal. She didn’t have her kids and she wasn’t driving. As far as spilling secrets on a show, that’s the main reason they brought her on was to add drama to a bunch of wealthy entitled women. You can simply dislike her without tearing her up on every article.
I’m curious. I don’t watch the RHOBH, and I know nothing about the players, but does Jennifer Giminez go out with her when she goes drinking?
PS Being helped out of a restaurant is a bit beyond “tipsy”.
She is , however , required to drive sober. So we really don’t have to ” lighten up.”
If you’re a recovering alcoholic you know all to well that you can’t “help” alcoholics who are still drinking. Alcoholism isn’t regular stuff like helping a friend over a breakup or telling them to get their act together over some childish behaviour. It’s beyond all of that. And it’s a self-diagnosed condition. If you don’t think you have it, well in a way, you don’t, because no matter how many people tell you you’re a terrible drunk, if you don’t believe you are, nothing is going to change.
I’d probably be an alcoholic too if I had to deal with the sociopath homewrecker she has to put up with.