Gobby Sean Young Staggers To Rehab

This celebrity rehab fad is getting way out of hand - now even actresses who we haven't seen or thought of for over a decade have decided to give it a whirl, too.

Yes, Sean Young, we're looking at you. 

Sean Young - star of several films you're too young to remember - has decided to check herself into rehab after drunkenly heckling winners at this weekend's Directors Guild Of America awards until she was escorted out of the ceremony. That's the spirit.

Sean Young used to have it all - a boy's name even though she's a girl, a minor role in Dune, a name that makes it sounds like she's a boy when she's not, a minor role in Wall Street - the lot. But despite this flawless CV, her bit-part roles in films that predate the invention of disposable contact lenses won't be what Sean Young will be remembered for.

Not when she got shitfaced and heckled Julian Schnabel during his speech at the DGA awards on Saturday, anyway.

According to reports, Sean Young - star of Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde - was removed from this weekend's DGA ceremony after constantly drunkenly interrupting The Diving Bell And The Butterfly director Julian Schnabel during his speech. Now, in an ideal world this would be where we rolled out a clip of Sean Young hurling abuse at a man for winning a prize, all red-eyed and dribble-faced, but there's a pitiful lack of clips. So instead here's a video of a big-haired cyborg called Julie Chen giving a first-hand account of Sean Young's drunken heckling on David Letterman. It's about a minute in…

Ah, the old double "Get on with it." We know it well. However, this display of diamond-hard wit and dazzling wordplay only resulted in Sean Young getting dragged out of the DGA awards so she could ask herself some serious questions. Questions like "Where's the nearest kebab van?" and "Why is my underwear so wet?" and "I really suppose I'd better get myself off to rehab, hadn't I?"

And so that's what Sean Young did. Went to rehab, that is, not wet herself and ate a kebab. We assume. Entertainment Weekly reports:

Sean Young, 48, has voluntarily entered rehab for alcohol abuse, according to a rep. The announcement comes on the heels of an outburst at Saturday night's Directors Guild Awards, which caused the actress to be escorted out of the event. ''Sean Young voluntarily admitted herself yesterday to a rehabilitation center for treatment related to alcoholism,'' a statement from Insignia PR said Tuesday. ''It is understood that Young has struggled against the disease for many years.''

Now we know it's hard to believe that Sean Young - the woman who played a transvestite in Ace Ventura and was so determined to be cast as Catwoman in Batman Returns that she tried to confront Tim Burton in a homemade Catwoman outfit complete with drawn-on whiskers - could ever have a personal problem so severe that it meant she had to go to rehab. But that seems to be the case.

However, let's focus on the positives here - at least people are talking about Sean Young for the first time in years now. And maybe being aggressively drunk in a roomful of her peers and employers will even mean that Sean Young starts to get the big movie roles she's been craving for so long.

For instance, Steven Spielberg must have seen the outburst for himself - so maybe Sean Young's agents should expect a call asking her if she wants to play Mad Drunk Bitch Number Three in his upcoming The Trial of the Chicago 7.

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Sean Young Enters Rehab - Entertainment Weekly