Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler even went so far as to call the program unethical , claiming former Guns ’N Roses drummer Steven Adler was asked to fake a drug stupor for the show’s cameras.
After Conaway’s passing, “Celebrity Rehab” star and executive producer Dr. Drew Pinsky attempted to distance his show from the death, claiming the actor died from years of prescription pill abuse, pneumonia and sepsis, not a drug overdose (although the results of Conaway’s autopsy are pending). Still, Conaway’s death casts an ever more negative pall on a show that’s already courted controversy.
Yet former participants of the program and experts in the counseling field said that neither the show nor Pinsky should be held responsible for either death — even though virtually all admit the show contains both sensationalistic and exploitative elements.
“I promise you that for the time these people are in ‘Celebrity Rehab,’ it’s saving their lives.
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