The Sober Buddy Doesn’t Come Cheap
Nikki Finke is a toughie and a funny writer. She writes about Hollywood with a scorched keyboard in LA Weekly. She pointed out a new trend in LA that’s bubbling up to the mainstream.
“Hollywood is now indulging in a different kind of rehab substitute. It’s intense and round the clock sober companionship, aka “The Sober Buddy”. Rather than spending the standard 60 to 90 days in a clinic like Promises or Betty Ford, the actor or actress or exec hires a sober companion to keep on track. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, this coach by your side makes sure you stay clean.
Such intense monitoring doesn’t come cheap, as ABC News– which claims Owen Wilson has a sober buddy — found out from Douglas Caine, founder of Sober Champion with offices in LA, NYC and London. Caine says his prices range from $450 to $1,500 a day for care. as it happens, art is imitating life: Jim Carrey is supposedly still linked to a Universal project in development titled Sober Buddies to play a court appointed “sober buddy” to a hard-partying businessman needing an alcohol-free biz trip to Vegas.
The glitch? The sober buddy falls off the wagon himself. Then again, Carrey’s recent projects do have a habit of falling apart.”
October 6, 2007 @ 4:06 pm
Sober Companions (also known as Sober Buddies or Sober Escorts) aren’t just for celebrities any more… We serve mostly non-famous people, and we are used quite often to prevent the type of tragic occurance that just happened at the Phoenix airport.In that case, a woman who was on her way to rehab was detained by police because of her odd behavior. With no one to advocate for her, she was forcible detained by airport police and died in custody.This is but one area where professional escorts who help those in early recovery probably would have saved another life.
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