Was Gerard Butler using painkillers to keep up with his sexual performance?

 

Gerard Butler did undercover rehab for approximately three weeks, by most accounts. Allegedly, he was having problems with prescription pills and maybe cocaine too. Unfortunately, I have some misgivings about this whole situation – I’ll buy that Gerard was having a pill problem, and I’ll buy that he was having issues with recreational drugs too. But why did he only go to rehab for three weeks? Did he leave early so he could make it to the post-Oscar Vanity Fair party? And what does it mean if Gerard’s first week out of rehab involves not only huge (cocaine-soaked) Oscar parties, but also a trip to a nightclub AND an event for the launch of a new rum? Sketchy, right?
Anyway, we got a tip about this somewhat random gossip story about Gerard and his pills. According to one of Gerard’s ex-lovers, The Butler was only poppin’ pills to dull his back pain… because he wanted to keep on screwin’.

Randy Gerard Butler got hooked on painkillers after using them to fuel his sex life, his gorgeous ex has revealed.
Trainer Alicia Marie dated the Scot, who recently came out of rehab, in 2009 and said she never had it so good in the bedroom.
But she claimed his desire to be the best lover meant he made his agonising back injury — picked up on the set of 2006 movie 300 — much worse, which led to him using more medication. She said: “He didn’t want to make any sacrifices in the bedroom, [making] his pain issues so much worse.”

[From Starplus]
I actually went on one of The Butler’s fan-forums (those bitches make my Fassbender-lunacy look quaint), and they identify this Alicia Marie woman as someone Butler was seeing somewhere in the summer/fall of 2009. I wonder if he remembers her name? Anyway, the more I hear about The Butler, the more I think my years-long jokes/assumptions are dead-on. The man has addiction issues, but maybe he’s not dealing with one of his biggest addiction issues: sex addiction. When you’re popping painkillers right and left all because you want to keep bonin’ and bonin’, maybe the problem isn’t JUST the pills, you know? Gerard Butler is living the movie Shame. Sigh… and now I’m thinking about Fassy again.