Former teen idol Leif Garrett sent to jail

[FidoRock]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 3:49pm

I so loathe it when a teen heart-throb of mine becomes a slob and falls into misery and drug abuse... it just reinforces what poor taste I have in men :)

Dateline: Los Angeles Leif Garrett has been sent to jail for 45 days after failing several drug tests while staying in a strict drug rehabilitation program, authorities said Thursday.

The 44-year-old former teen idol began the sentence March 30 after a Superior Court commissioner determined he had violated terms of his rehab program, according to Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

Garrett agreed to enter the program for violating probation in a cocaine case stemming from a 2004 arrest.

After his last progress hearing March 9, Garrett told reporters he had made improvement in fighting his addiction.

"I'm going down the right path," he said at the time.

Commissioner Melissa Widdifield scheduled his next progress hearing for May 11.

Garrett also faces felony heroin possession charges after officers who stopped him Jan. 14 for allegedly trying to ride a Los Angeles subway train without a ticket said they found suspected narcotics. He has pleaded not guilty in that case.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 3:51pm

Wow, that doesn't even look like him.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 4:13pm

Let this be a lesson to each of you: If you are a great looking kid, document it, because chances are no one will ever beleive it when you get old.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 4:20pm

Sounds like the voice of experience speaking!

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 4:21pm

So what if we were an ugly child?

[Magdalene]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 4:25pm

Then you turn into a swan!

[MatthewAddison]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 4:40pm

Aw, and just this season he was on Elimidate looking for his "soulmate"...

[Phantom2]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 6:17pm

He was gorgeous when he was younger. What a shame...

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 6:23pm

He looks like Charles Manson.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 9:39pm

I guess if a straight man has to go to prison he'd rather look like picture #2 than picture #1. So in a way it's a good thing.

[FidoRock]

Posted: 4/8/06 at 4:23pm

ooo... but even if I looked like picture #2, I'd be eyeing all the picture #1s, straight or not :) hehehhe

[Magdalene]

Posted: 4/8/06 at 9:37pm

I'm grateful my teen crush was Bobby Sherman!

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 4/9/06 at 12:37pm

I looked at picture 1 and thought, what a hottie! But when I scrolled down...blech...ew...ew...ew...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/9/06 at 12:42pm

"just reinforces what poor taste I have in men :)"

GREAT line FidoRock!

[peggyandvelma]

Posted: 4/9/06 at 3:14pm

Will he be in a cell next to Tom Sizemore?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/9/06 at 3:18pm

No, James Barbour

[peggyandvelma]

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:38pm

Haha. Good one, TheatreDiva.