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Nicole Richie may be facing jail time
Dec. 14, 2006
First, there was the "Twinkie defense." Now, there's the "crampy defense." According to Us Weekly, Nicole Richie has been telling pals that the reason she gobbled a Vicodin before her DUI arrest on Monday morning was to combat the painful cramps that come at that certain time of the month.
While some might find the pill excuse a little tough to swallow, the rickety, rehabbed starlet, who was nabbed after she allegedly drove the wrong way down a Los Angeles highway (police say she also admitted to smoking pot), is apparently "upset" over rumors she's a habitual popper.
She maintains to her tabloid speed-dialing inner circle that she only "occasionally" tosses a Vicodin down her underused gullet when Aunt Flo first comes to visit.
"She knows she made a mistake, but overall she's in a better place," a Richie confidante tells the magazine. "She has come a long way from her heroin days."
But another source isn't so sure, blabbing to In Touch, "None of us are surprised. She tried to hide it, but everyone knows she takes pills."
Nicole is also said to be displeased that arresting officers marked her weight as a mere 85 pounds because "she's so proud of her weight gain," the insider adds to Us, asserting Lionel's little girl has packed 10 pounds onto her still atrophied-looking 5-foot-1 frame in the last couple of months.
Continues the mole, "She doesn't know where the cops came up with 85 pounds and it's annoying to her."
(You know what else is annoying? When an underfed starlet in a tank-like SUV puts other people's lives at risk by purportedly barreling into oncoming traffic, but moving on ...)
Nicole's arrest doesn't appear to have cooled her newfound coziness with Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden. Not only was she snapped exiting his Glendale pad and hanging around the band's video shoot this week, but the New York Post says she also named him as her "emergency contact" when she was booked, an honor he never had while dating squeaky-clean Hilary Duff.
But could conjugal visits be in their future? TMZ.com has discovered that Richie, whose lawyer said Tuesday that she "is prepared to accept whatever responsibility is appropriate," entered a no contest plea on a DUI charge in 2002, which means if she's convicted in this latest incident, she'll face a mandatory five days in the pokey, along with a one-year license suspension.
And while Nicole's reunited BFF -- and fellow DUI arrestee -- Paris Hilton is keeping quiet on her recent troubles, at least one of her showbiz acquaintances is offering support, albeit nonspecific, slightly nonsensical support.
"The most frightening thing about it is that she was in great danger as well as people on the freeway that night," Ryan Seacrest tells People, "and anytime you see something like that that could result in a massive catastrophe, you worry for anybody that's involved."
Still, he's convinced Richie will come through just fine based on his careful observation of how she treats her four-legged friends (yeah, we're not sure about this analogy either, but just go with it ...).
"I also know Nicole to be a very sweet, peaceful, charismatic and charming young girl that loves her dog," the stubble-sporting host offers. "When she comes in [to interview on his radio show], she's a great mom to her dogs and hopefully she's close to getting to that place again."
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