Posted on 12/29/2001 12:11:29 AM PST by truther
Photographs showing former first daughter Chelsea Clinton staggering bleary eyed into a popular London watering hole will appear in next week's edition of the supermarket tabloid Globe Magazine.
The Globe's cover story headline, "Boozing Chelsea: Clinton Daughter Out of Control," appears over a photo of an unidentified friend grabbing Chelsea by the face in an apparent effort to keep her from passing out.
Other Globe photos show Clinton, eyes bloodshot and looking disoriented, reeling as she emerges from a car with friends, one of whom is steadying her by the arm as the group weaves its way into the popular London nightspot Groucho.
"I thought Chelsea was about to topple over," a source who witnessed the scene tells the tabloid. "She was wobbling on her feet and a friend had to put her arm out to steady her."
The Globe reprints one passage from a British media report that claims: "Looks like Chelsea Clinton stumbled on a staggeringly good time when she hit London's West End this week. And it took a firm pair of hands to stop her from actually hitting the pavement as she swayed happily into the trendy Groucho Club, where dad Bill - the former U.S. president - was partying with U2 star Bono."
The drunken night out was not an isolated incident, according to others cited by the Globe, one of whom said the former first daughter is "spinning out of control."
"Chelsea's out on the town into the early hours every chance she gets," a Clinton schoolmate adds. "She loves a good time, but everything seems to revolve around drinking."
If the reports are accurate, Clinton's problems with alcohol would mirror a family pattern that saw her Uncle Roger finally admit to a life-long addiction to booze and drugs just last summer after entering an Arizona drug rehab center to dry out.
Last month another of Chelsea's uncles, Tony Rodham, admitted that he was boozing and smoking marijuana with a neighbor before he ended up entwined on the living room couch with the man's girlfriend.
In her younger days Clinton's grandmother Virginia was a fixture on the Little Rock party scene, with one account describing her as "a barfly."
According to one friend quoted by the Globe, Chelsea has turned to liquor "as a defense against jokes about her father and Monica Lewinsky and jibes about Hillary."
"One night when somebody cracked a Clinton joke, she walked into the bar and ordered a double vodka on the rocks," the source told the tabloid. "She downed it in two swallows and then walked out."
Last week the New York Post's Page Six reported that Clinton attended a New York party with sportstars Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter and Ahmad Rashad where "bottles of Veuve Clicquot and vodka" were consumed, but made no mention of Chelsea herself bellying up to the bar.
The Globe reported in April that the former first daughter was spotted boozing it up for spring break at several popular nightspots in Aspen, Colo.
Thank you. She is an adult and living her life partly on the public's money. In a way she is representing this country on foreign soil, no matter what she thinks about it. This whole affair reflects more on her lack of judgement than it does the tabloid press that decides to report the story.
So, you're saying you've been this uncouth for a long time, it's not something new?
She is fair game in the world of the tabloids.
I cannot recall any ex-first family who has consistently whored for publicity as the white trash from Arkansas has done. That clinton family is nothing but trash. From the floozie mama to the coke-snorting mama's boys. (not to mention the in-laws)
All they did was break the law by drinking under age.
Worth repeating, leave them alone, no reason to visit the sins of Klink and Dink on their daughter. Petty bs.
Now, what exactly makes it crap... the fact that you don't like it, or the fact that it is true? If it is not true, then tell us why it isn't. Or is this kind of truth, the reporting of something someone verifiably saw, and not rumor or exaggeration, something you'd rather not read?
That's right. She stepped out into the political arena, whether it was her idea or her mothers.
She's out of the closet. She's a fair target now.
You folks are going too easy on her.
If the Bush twins decide to become political, they'll suffer the same fate. But, of course, the left couldn't wait to bash the innocent non-political kids.
They hit them early, so now it's Chelsea turn, with clean conscience!
Are those the folks she has called her 'trained pigs'? If there was ever a character facet common to all the Clintons it would be 'ingrate'.
I thought the immediate family of a former prez is entitled to USSS protection for a couple years, and the prez gets it for life. But I could be wrong.
The fact that they are conservative is a big plus but they are way too tabloid and unreliable for me.
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