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Why is Katherine Jenkins going on about taking drugs?

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UnquietDad · 03/11/2008 11:28

At the risk of giving her further oxygen of publicity...

So apparently all this cocaine and ecstasy that she took was a "mistake" in her teenage years which she is now ashamed of and we all make such "mistakes". Rrrrrright.

If it was such a mistake then - just a thought - why did she ever open her big gob about it? It's not like she is a politician who was being grilled and had to offer an opinion on the matter.

Gosh, it couldn't possibly be a misguided attempt to sound "cool" while simultaneously occupying the moral high ground about those nasty drugs, could it? No, that would be unfair. That would imply that she is trying to court a trendy young audience and has an new record deal, or something. And that would be unbearably cynical.

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chequersandchess · 03/11/2008 11:29

Link?

poppy34 · 03/11/2008 11:30

at a guess she has a book/album out - but agree totally with your take on it...

plus if you read what she actually did it wasn't exactly amy winehouse (I am in no way condoning drug use/abuse but just saying it seems like it was fairly limited in how long she did it for and seems to have learned pretty quickly and changed her habits)

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UnquietDad · 03/11/2008 11:31

here

It was on BBC news front page so I thought people could probably find it....

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NomDePlume · 03/11/2008 11:31

She is so unspeakably dull. Very pretty and all that but

I'm with you on the trying to appeal to a trendy audience.

Mercy · 03/11/2008 11:31

lol

I saw that piece this morning - I haven't got the faintest idea who she is!

Tillyscoutsmum · 03/11/2008 11:32

Hmmm - I did think the same

If I were being kind, I would think perhaps she was about to be "outed" by someone else and thought she would get in there first..... maybe ....?..... possibly ?

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UnquietDad · 03/11/2008 11:32

Maybe. It won't do her any harm, though...

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GunpowderTreasonAndLemon · 03/11/2008 11:37

The article you referred to actually says "It is understood the singer spoke out because a tabloid newspaper was about to expose her drug-taking."

That actually sounds more likely to me than the "misguided attempt to sound 'cool'" option

spicemonster · 03/11/2008 11:37

I would say it's because a) someone was going to spill and b) she's going to the US

BitOfFun · 03/11/2008 11:38

Maybe it was a damage limitation thing, and someone was going to dob her in to the tabloids? That was my thought when I read it anyway.

The story was pretty anodyne - she took, gasp, up to three lines of coke some nights. Jeez, I have that before I get in the shower in the morning...

chequersandchess · 03/11/2008 11:48

Well I didn't look there UQD as it doesn't exactly sound like front page news.

Nice of you to share with us what you're talking about now though, thanks.

chequersandchess · 03/11/2008 11:50

The article says she was going to be exposed anyway, that's obviously why.

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UnquietDad · 03/11/2008 11:51

I still think she could have maintained a dignified silence. The "exposure" has come at a very useful time in her career. Maybe I'm just cynical.

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chequersandchess · 03/11/2008 11:53

She's not playing the "I did it because I'm cool" card, she's playing the "I was in with a bad crowd and easily led" card.

Still gives her some exposure though I guess.

BitOfFun · 03/11/2008 11:53

admit it UQD, you read the NoTW, hehehe

filz · 03/11/2008 11:58

we were discussing this at work yesterday and wondered if she snorted some cocaine in the woolpack

LouMacca · 03/11/2008 12:06

Agree with others. Its possible that a newspaper contacted her to 'out her' about her past drug use so she got in there first.

mayorquimby · 03/11/2008 13:40

meh i think it's good to see people talking about drugs in a way that is not one of the two extremes portrayed by most media personalities i.e. either a junked up wreck or whiter than white i'd never touch them.
let's be honest a high percenage of people approach drugs with a degree of common sense,use them recreationally from their teens to their mid 20's and enjoy the experience. sadly some gt sucked in further.
here's someone who was going to be outed anyway and has said that she was naieve when young and experimentedwith drugs.like most their was some she liked,some she didn't like but none of it has ruined her life nor has she become dependeant on it. as oppossed to other celebs who are caught smoking one spliff and then have an intervention by media before checking into rehab oly to come out a week later and appear in hello talking about "my attle with my demons".

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UnquietDad · 03/11/2008 13:43

I think it's quite dangerous to have slebs talking about drugs in this matter-of-fact way. It makes them look like some "essential" rite of passage - far from being a mistake, it portrays them as a normal part of growing up. That word "recreational" doesn't help either.

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mosschops30 · 03/11/2008 13:46

God I hate Katherine Jenkins so am bias but she seems to have changed her views as when she was asked about this on a tv programme about kids and drug problems she said that nothing like that happened where she lived when she was growing up and had no idea where to get drugs from (Neath in South Wales, hardly a lovely rural area).

mawbroon · 03/11/2008 13:50

but mosschops, the article i read said that she got in with the wrong crowd when she first went to London, so perhaps she was telling the truth about not knowing about drugs when she was growing up.

mayorquimby · 03/11/2008 13:51

"That word "recreational" doesn't help either"

it mightn't help when trying to stop people from ever using drugs but in my opinion nor does the approach of trying to stop children from ever trying dugs.it's a fact of life that a lot of people use drugs recreationally in the same way people use alcohol etc. i think her statement is much more sensible than others because she has tried it,didn't enjoy it and no longer uses drugs but nor did it ruin her life which is much more accurate than saying if you take x,y and z you will become addicted when the chances are you will not if you approach them with a degree of common sense.

avaTsar · 03/11/2008 14:09

I agree with UQDad's post. Yes it's true lots of people use drugs recreationally, but a lot of people don't.

It normalises drugs to keep hearing slebs banging on about them and de sensitises the subject.

I know they are everywhere but to accept that everyone will inevitably have a go makes them sound almost acceptable and as UQDad says a 'rite of passage'.

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UnquietDad · 03/11/2008 15:48

Quite. Impressionable tenagers will think not "ooh, a mistake, better not do that", but "ooh, like the sound of that mistake, recreational drugs, sounds fun."

Saying it was a "mistake" in later life gives you a Get Out Of Jail Free card.

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LurkerOfTheUniverse · 03/11/2008 15:54

god she's awful, drugs or no drugs