Earlier this week, we told you the whole sordid story about Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood’s drunken tryst with a 19 year old cocktail waitress. The 61-year-old ditched his wife of 23 years to party with the teen instead of entering rehab for his two-vodka-bottle-a-day drinking habit. Now, after much urging from family and friends, the rocker has agreed to enter rehab and seek treatment.

Ronnie Wood entered a rehabilitation facility Wednesday for help with alcoholism, said a spokeswoman for the Rolling Stones guitarist.

“Following Ronnie’s continued battle with alcohol he has entered a period of rehab,” the spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity as required by her agency. “His close family and friends say he is seeking help and look forward to his recovery.”

Wood, 61, has fought a long battle with alcoholism during his rock ‘n’ roll career, which started in the 1960s when he played with the band The Faces.

His spokeswoman didn’t release any details about the treatment he will receive or the clinic that he entered.

The craggy guitarist had seemed to be in good health in recent years. He has developed a strong second career as an artist, selling his paintings at some of London’s respected art galleries.

But he has been the focus of feverish recent newspaper reports about his resuming drinking.

[From The Huffington Post]

No word on whether or not Wood ended his relationship with his young enabler, 19-year-old Ekaterina Ivanova, whom he met in a bar in Ireland. But something tells me that if he’s cleaning himself up, the party must be over. At least he’ll be sober when he appears in divorce court.

Ronnie Wood is shown out in London on 5/14/08. Credit: WENN