Beauty Queen On Short Leash
Miss USA Tara Conner has successfully completed rehab and is launching a campaign on the media circuit (she's already talked to People magazine, Thursday is "Today" with Matt Lauer and "Entertainment Tonight").
According to the New York Post, Donald Trump and the Miss Universe Organization are keeping a tight leash on the embattled beauty queen. Friends tell the newspaper that Conner has moved into a bigger apartment that she now shares with a chaperone.
"She is not allowed to go to clubs anymore … and she has a lot of new rules for going out," a source told the Post.
A spokesperson for the Miss USA organization told the newspaper, "Plans to move to a bigger apartment with a chaperone have been in the works for months, and Tara is free to go wherever she wants."
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Conner, now 21, was evaluated last month because of a few too many late nights out on the town in New York City, where she is said to have engaged in underage drinking. Local newspapers reported that Conner tested positive for cocaine.
Conner told People magazine in a recent interview that she is an alcoholic.
"I didn't think I had any kind of issue going into rehab. I even said, 'I'll get some free therapy,' or something like that — and that was so ridiculous," she says. "But I've realized I do have an issue. I suffer from the disease of alcoholism and addiction. And if there's anything that I want people to know it's the severity of this disease and what it can do to people."