Life and Style posted a shocking, smearing article about Hollywood’s favorite addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. The tab says that two people that worked with Dr. Drew on Loveline back in the day confirmed that he loved the cocaine. This is either the most interesting story I’ve read in a long time or it’s a mean-spirited slam against a hunky doctor that helps people.

In 1982, Drew hadn’t even finished medical school when he met KROQ DJ Jim Trenton at a party. “I asked him to do this segment with me called Ask a Surgeon,” Trenton tells Life & Style. “Listeners could call in and get answers to their romance and medical questions.” The segment was such a hit, it soon evolved into Loveline — which remains on the air to this day.

While they spent their days helping listeners with their love, sex and health-related problems, Drew and Jim spent many of their nights partying away. Often, Trenton says, that included cocaine use. “He used to say to me, ‘Jim, I love cocaine,’” Trenton notes. “He’d say that a lot — that he loved coke.” In fact, Trenton adds, Drew “did coke with a lot of different people, including myself, on numerous occasions.” Joanna Swylde, who worked as an intern at KROQ at the time and partied with Drew and Trenton, confirms Trenton’s claims. She tells Life & Style they even used to snort lines of cocaine off album covers in the control room at work. “We would do it during the breaks on the show,” Swylde recalls.

Although Drew used coke, “I don’t think he was addicted to it,” Trenton tells Life & Style. “He used it recreationally.

“I would say by the mid to late ’80s, he had quit,” Trenton says. “We all stopped doing it.”

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If you read this blog very often, you are probably already aware that I don’t think very highly of the ridiculous stage performer Lady Gaga. I refuse to call her a pop star, singer, musician, etc…she’s just some chick that loves to rock the shock factor and has acquired a huge gay club following.

But I do give anyone props who opens up about their past drug use and doesn’t try to hide that fact that they are human and got caught up every once in a while just like everyone else.

She said, “My cocaine soundtrack was The Cure,” she said. “I loved all their music, but I listened to this one song on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine. ‘Whatever I do/It’s not enough.’ Isn’t that funny? At the time I didn’t think there was anything wrong with me until my friends came over and said, ‘Are you doing this alone?’ Um, yes. Me and my mirror.”

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