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Kc103
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07-13-2004

Monday, October 10, 2005 - 7:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
Landslide, I was wondering some of the same things. I really don't know anything about steroids...but aren't some of them illegal? (Sorry if I'm out of the loop here.) Yet, they're showing him shooting up and doing other pill-popping. I am wondering if any questioning was done about the welfare of their children throughout all of this. I'm sure there are people to "step in", but still a majority of it very unsettling to say the least. If what Danny is going through on the show is truly "real", I sure hope that he can find a way to finally manage those demons in some sort of positive way.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I've seen 1 1/2 episode of this. Little Danny Partridge needs to sign up for about 3 years of inpatient and 10 years of halfway house/outpatient treatment. I always rooted for this guy, he's been brutally frank about his troubles over the years and seemed to be making great strides in redirecting his future. I think he planned the falling off the wagon stuff because it'd make "great television." He was carrying on about wanting to get a new television show because "it's what he does best" . . . . He was a character on a hit tv series when he was 11, no tv since that I'm aware of outside of the occasional "child stars gone wrong" interview. Move on, buddy. And his wife, although I have a few shares of sympathy for her, seems to be just as big a famewhore as he. I can't blame her for not wanting "intimacy" with him or refusing to babysit him during his shenanigans, I'm positive she's worn down, tired of it and totally self-defensive at this point. However, rather than signing up for a television show which documents the hell their kids are in, she should have bolted with them a long time ago, the man has "abusive and abusing husband" sketched on every bulging muscle in his face. This is not entertaining, it's horrifying. Maybe it's an instructive document for other people in the same situation, maybe there's some public good issued by continuing the documentary, but for the most part it's one of the most painful clips of the destruction of a family and one human being in particular I've ever witnessed. Seriously disturbing and I won't be tuning in again.

Christiii
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07-07-2005

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 5:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christiii a private message Print Post    
Im glad she did the show....that way if anything awful does happen, its documented that he is a total whackjob.....I think its the best thing possible for her and her marriage if it survives.....they cant hide the problems anymore....

Hummingbird
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08-21-2002

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hummingbird a private message Print Post    
I feel sorry for those children! One of these days they will see this.
Why didn't someone intervene when Danny grabbed Gretchen's face and held it while he demanded she tell the doctor that she loved him? That was scary. The look on his face made my skin crawl.


Marej
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09-20-2002

Monday, October 17, 2005 - 1:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marej a private message Print Post    
The look on the Dr's face when Danny told him he slit(?) his wrists. When he was on the phone with the rehab lady, telling her what meds, etc; he was/is on & what anxiety's, etc; he had. Gretchen telling her pal's at lunch that she won't watch the show.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, October 17, 2005 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
The dr is strange looking, cant put my finger on it..too much botox?? he wears eyeliner?? what is wrong with him?

Kc103
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07-13-2004

Monday, October 17, 2005 - 9:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
The doctor does appear to have make-up on or something. He kind of looks like a wax mannequin to me. Did you hear Danny tell that other doctor that he liked his jacket? The doctor said something to the fact of wearing something nice because he might be filmed for TV! The whole thing seems suspect in many ways to me.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, October 17, 2005 - 9:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
KC..I noticed that also

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Monday, October 17, 2005 - 11:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonzacat a private message Print Post    
Yes, the Doc.... maybe too much Botox combined with an eye job combined with a face peel or too much time tanning, causing the pink cheeks.

That jacket remark was hilarious, Kc - he wanted to wear something sharp since he thought he might be on TV.

I saw Danny & Gretchen live on the Fox morning show here, I believe it was last Friday morning. Danny says he has been sober since the tatoo date but is still not back under the same roof with Gretchen full time. She made it sound like she needs more time, or rather more time to be sure he remains sober. I really don't know much about their situation, but she apparently bought a house in the neighborhood they have been in for years, and they have maintained both residences for a while.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 4:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
Julie, it must have been another one of his girlfriends not Gretchen that he was with in Philly. I know that in addition to that girl he also had a fling with one of my friends - she has the same "look" as the other girl and also Gretchen - the long red hair, etc. So I guess he has a "type" and they kind of look alike.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Seriously, the man needs rapid-succession steel-toed-boot-to-sphincter therapy.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 2:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Yikes, In my entire life I have known 2 people who have had to do some kind of rehab, and what Danny is doing doesn't resemble anything described to me by the people I know. Is his rehab for real? I am asking seriously.

Luvmykitties
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01-02-2004

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmykitties a private message Print Post    
Naja - I believe that rehab is for real - but as Danny stated, it's a "New Age"/Hollistic type of rehab. Why they chose this place to send him to I don't know. Maybe it's the only one that allowed cameras? I know on the show "Intervention" they never show what goes on inside the rehabs. But it really doesn't seem like an effective rehab for Danny.

I know that some rehabs are "nicer" than others. (based on what I've seen on documentaries) It probably also depends on how much money you are willing to spend.

For example, on "Intervention", they have sent people to "Oasis Treatment Center". This looks like a pretty nice place, but the first 30 days is $16,000.

It's unfortunate that Danny isn't doing the rehab for himself (he's doing it for Gretchen and the marriage) because recovery doesn't usually work if you're only doing it for someone else. (At least someone at Danny's level of addiction and destructive behavior.) I really fear what his rock bottom will be...

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Ah ha, that explains it. I completely must have missed the explanation it was a new age type of place. Thanks

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I also wanted to add as something a little funny... Didn't part of Danny's treatment look like it could be a new show in itself called "Celebrity Edition: Rehab Meets Fear factor"? LOL

Bighead
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01-02-2005

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bighead a private message Print Post    
LOLOL @ Naja..."Fear Factor...Rehab Edition" :-)

Naja
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06-28-2003

Sunday, October 30, 2005 - 7:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
He seemed like a halfway normal human being this episode. Too bad 30 days can't really change him. I think 6 months in there may give him half a chance.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Sunday, October 30, 2005 - 11:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
oh c'mon. No one watched?..LOL bull :-)

Cliotheleo
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03-13-2002

Sunday, October 30, 2005 - 11:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cliotheleo a private message Print Post    
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Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, October 31, 2005 - 12:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
LOL. Clio watched :-)

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Monday, October 31, 2005 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I gave up on this a few weeks ago.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, October 31, 2005 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I watched last night. I hadn't watched the past few because it had just gotten too hard to watch such an angry person. He did seem like he's trying. I hope for their sake, it works. I really hope for that little girl's sake because she obviously adores her daddy.

Cliotheleo
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03-13-2002

Monday, October 31, 2005 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cliotheleo a private message Print Post    
LOL! Yep ........ I'm busted.

I half/watched last night but have to admit, because there was "drama" going on I wasn't as in to it as I have been for a few other episodes. (I was dinking around on the PC at the same time I was watching it.)

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Monday, October 31, 2005 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Hey GAL, couldnt agree more!! Didnt Gretchen and Danny appear on "The View"? I remember someone (Star, Merideth...) attacking them for showing this because of the children, and Danny attacked back - total anger mode about "HIS KIDS" and no one questions HIS love for HIS kids... Gretchen pretty muched stayed in the background.

I did like the New Age discussion Danny had with his mother... wondering where Shirley Partridge is!!

Really tho, its just sad.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Hi, can anybody tell me if I missed an episode? I think this last one tivo grabbed was a rerun. Was the last one where he is in the therapy where he is listening to music while the doc writes down all his words and he hears a car beep? Or is there one ep after that? Thanks.