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It sounds like Jodie Sweetin, who played lovable Stephanie Tanner on family favorite sitcom Full House, is finally on her way to living the sweet life after years of alcohol and substance abuse.

In her new, brutally honest memoir UnSweetined, which hits stands today, Sweetin details how her life went from child star to out-of-control crystal meth addict. We caught up with Sweetin, now 27, the other day to talk about recovery, her one-a-half-year-old daughter, Zoie, and why she no longer thinks about using...

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Steve-O probably won't be having a viewing party when his upcoming documentary about his own addiction and recovery premieres next month on MTV.

"Watching it was horribly unhealthy for me," the former Jackass prankster told me yesterday. "You think that would help keep me sober, you know seeing myself as this raving lunatic...It absolutely triggered these crazy urges to get loaded."

Fortunately, he didn't relapse. Steve-O, 34, has been sober now for 13 months and 13 days. But Steve-O: Demise and Rise, airing May 3, is a no-holds-barred look at his past substance abuse...

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Ben Tegel

Lindsay Lohan is a piece of work—literally.

Los Angeles-based artist Ben Tegel created his latest Lohan-inspired work for a poster promoting Girl on Girl night at the Viper Room rock club. The image is a take on Grant Wood's iconic 1930 portrait, American Gothic, with Samantha Ronson as the pitchfork-holding farmer and LiLo as her wife.

But what's it all mean? The artist explained to me:

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Amy Winehouse's legal problems may have her banned in the USA right now, so what's a gal to do?

Head for the Caribbean.

It was announced earlier today that Winehouse is going to headline the 18th Annual St. Lucia Jazz festival in May. She had to drop out of next month's Coachella music festival in the California desert because she's unable to obtain a work visa in time due to lingering assault charges she's facing in the U.K.

Sen. Allen Chastanet, St. Lucia's Minister of Tourism, tells me talks with Winehouse began during her recent two-month vacation on the small island nation.

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Eva Mendes is one happy camper.

"I'm big on therapy," Mendes told me yesterday. "I've always said I love talking about therapy, because there's nothing wrong with it. Why wait until something goes terrible in your life to start fixing things?"

Mendes, 34, has never talked details about why she did a stint in rehab earlier this year, but she did tell me that one of her biggest issues was coping with her own success. "Up until recently, I was really uncomfortable with having success and enjoying it," Mendes says. "I just couldn't deal with that. How can I have so much? It's not fair. How can the world have so little?…I allowed it to mess with me in the sense that I just didn't know how to handle it."

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Don't look for Eva Mendes to be spillin' all about her visit to rehab.

"There are so many lies out there regarding my recent trip to Cirque Lodge," the starlet says in the new Interview magazine, out July 15. "But I don't care what people think. I just don't care. So I will neither confirm or deny."

Mendes actually feels better when stories are wrong rather right...

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Good news for Janet Jackson fans. She's hitting the road again. Ms. Nasty tells me she'll launch a new world tour on Sept. 11.

"The next big thing on the agenda is prepping for the tour," Jackson says. "I'm still promoting the new album [Discipline] right now, but we'll be getting into rehearsals in about a month and then start touring."

But at this very moment Jackson, 41, is thinking about Saturday, when Ellen DeGeneres will present her with the Vanguard Award at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's 19th Annual Media Awards at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

Jackson is in good company. Past recipients include Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Aniston, Whoopi Goldberg, Antonio Banderas and Liza Minnelli. I caught up with Jackson the other day from her home in L.A., where she spoke about her thoughts on getting married again, those never-ending gay rumors, her dreams of Broadway and why she wishes she was more like Janet drag queens:

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Samaire Armstrong, 27, is opening up about rehab. The blond starlet reveals she’s been through treatment not once but twice. 

“You know, I just had a lot of access to a lot of freedom,” Armstrong said at last night’s premiere of Bra Boys at Hollywood’s DGA building. “I sort of lost direction.”

Armstrong is grateful for her survival because she knows she was dealing with a potentially deadly struggle: “I was reading this book called Beautiful Boy,” she said. “They sell it at Starbucks! It’s about this family and their drug-addicted son. It’s so prominent these days. I don’t know if it always has been, but it just seems like it’s everywhere. And not everyone has the luxury of coming back from that. A lot of people die.”

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Yesterday I told you about some hotshot Hollywood directors joining the fight against crystal meth.

Well, as soon as my item went up, I heard from another great antimeth campaign. And this time, it’s director Joel Schumacher who’s involved.

Schumacher, the director of two Batman movies, St. Elmo's Fire and most recently The Number 23, is the one behind the new Me Not Meth television spot targeting gay and bisexual men.

The 30-second ad features four men talking about the things they’ve lost because of their addiction to crystal meth—job, family, boyfriend, etc.

The ad—part of a $5.3 million advertising campaign with support from the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs—will run in California through September.

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Bravo, Alejandro González Iñárritu!

Iñárritu is the latest Hollywood hotshot director to join the fight against crystal meth.

The Oscar-nominated Iñárritu has directed three new television ads for the three-year-old Meth Project. The ads, which are targeted to teenagers, launched yesterday in Montana.

Nitsa Zuppas, executive director of the Siebel Foundation that funds the Meth Project, said Iñárritu jumped on board after they showed him ads already directed by Tony Kaye and Darren Aronofsky. “We approached him and showed him the ads,” Zuppas told me this morning. “He went home that night and showed them to his kids. The next morning he said, ‘I’m in.’ ”

Iñárritu, the director behind 21 Grams with Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro and Babel with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, was asked to direct a series of ads using the tagline, “This isn’t normal, but on meth it is.”

The 30-second spots show a teen male attacking his mother with a bat, a boy overdosing while his friends watch television and a teen girl selling her much younger sister for sex for $50.

"These aren't sugarcoated softballs with the highway patrolman talking down to kids and saying, 'Don't do this and don't do that,' " Zuppas said.

The ads (which I first read about in Variety editor Anne Thompson's blog) will also run in Hawaii, Arizona, Idaho, Illinois and Wyoming.

Iñárritu was traveling and could not be reached for comment.

To see the ads, lick over to the Meth Project.