Betty Ford helped pave road for celeb rehab

LOS ANGELES - Long before there view reality feed was Betty Ford helped create the original Celebrity Rehab.

The Centre, which bears her name has a legacy of rehabbing Hollywood's elite. It became a well-known name, a punchline - above all - a highly respected seeks treatment center.

Since its opening in the Rancho Mirage, California, in 1982, like Elizabeth Taylor star, were Johnny Cash, and last, Lindsay Lohan got the treatment among the more than 90,000 people in the middle.

Taylor meets one of her husbands, Larry Fortensky, while in treatment. Kelsey Grammer attributed his stay there save his life. Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, who paid tribute to the former first lady on social-networking site Twitter on Friday evening did so.

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"it & Betty Ford Center helped me my looks beat and she was an Angel to many," wrote Matlin.

"One day at a time" actress Mackenzie Phillips, an other Betty Ford graduate, wrote on the website of "RIP Betty Ford." A pioneer in the treatment of drug addicts. We owe our gratitude and prayer Mrs. Ford. And love. "It was a classic woman."

Taylor's first stay in the middle of 1983 came and face the fight with an another high-profile searches provided.

Cash soon became a patient after he broke five ribs and suffered a relapse into abuse of analgesics. "In the Betty Ford Center for 43 days I, ended up" said cash the associated press, 1986. "since then I have no drugs had." "The best three years of my life, the most productive and the happiest been."

One of the defining characteristics of Ford's was their openness and engagement with their own looks frontal included. They revealed a many years looking to painkillers and alcohol 15 months after leaving the White House, and welcomed new groups of patients with a speech rehabilitation, that have started, "Hello, my name is Betty Ford, and I am an alcoholic and drug addict."

"People who often have to say, 'You saved my life', and ' you have turned my life,'" said Ford. "they see not, if we only assistance itself to do, and that's all."

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