Last week there was an interesting report from Radar that claimed Kirsten Dunst is still drinking all the time, despite her stay in rehab in 2008. As some pointed out, Kirsten seemed to encourage the view that her rehab stint was because of “exhaustion” or something like that, but the facility she checked into is known mainly for substance abuse and alcohol abuse. So I feel pretty confident in saying that at one point, Kirsten felt she had some kind of drug-or-alcohol abuse problems, and she tried to deal with it. Unfortunately, last week’s rumors seem to be true – and it might even be worse than expected. According to the Enquirer, Kirsten is downing double vodkas like there’s no tomorrow:

Spidey cutie Kirsten back on bottle, pals fear!

Kirsten Dunst is back on the bottle – and pals are worried her partying will land her back in rehab. The 27-year-old Spider-Man star – who did a stint in rehab last year – was stumbling drunk at the Tropicana bar inside the Roosevelt Hotel on Aug. 18, according to eyewitnesses.

“Kirsten looked completely wasted and holding on to some random guy,” the source told The ENQUIRER.

“When he asked her what she was drinking, she told him to order her a double vodka on the rocks – straight vodka! He ordered himself a whiskey, got her a double and they staggered off into the crowd.”

As The ENQUIRER reported, Kirsten – who shot to fame in 1994 as the child vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire – spent six weeks in rehab at Utah’s Cirque Lodge in February 2008. But barely two months later, the talented thesp was spotted boozing it up three times in one week!

First, she was seen drinking at Manhattan’s Bowery Electric. Then she was boozing it up at La Poubelle in Los Angeles, and finally Kirsten spent two boozy nights with pals at The Palazzo Lavo Club in Las Vegas.

Just four months later, it looked as if Kirsten drank herself into such a vodka stupor at The Room in L.A. that friends had to drag her out of the underground nightspot. Now she again appears to be hitting the bottle hard.

“The guy Kirsten was partying with at the Tropicana held her by the arm to keep her stable,” a second eyewitness confided.

“Even though she was wasted, she looked like she was trying to hide her drink in her jacket as she walked toward a couch. But minutes after she sat down, Kirsten gulped her drink and they immediately went back to the bar and got more.”

[From the National Enquirer]

What part of her actions are just normal partying and what part is actual alcohol abuse? Kiki has always seemed like a strange bird to me, but I think some of that oddness may have been both cultivated and alcohol-related. She’s only got one film coming out this year – a film called All Good Things, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan. She’s contractually obligated to do anything the Spiderman franchise wants, but other than that, she doesn’t seem to have a lot going on career-wise. Which came first, the career lull or the alcohol abuse?