Rihanna Doomed to Whitney Houston's Fate? Medical Experts Say 'Yes'

Is Rihanna doomed to die a premature death at an even younger age than the late Whitney Houston? Yes, according to experts. In fact, rumor has it that Chris Brown's troubled ex is already suffering from liver damage due to her love affair with the bottle. if she doesn't stop now, she'll wind up like Houston whom she ironically wanted desperately to portray in a biopic of the recently deceased singer/actress. The consensus is that if RihRih doesn't stop drinking, someone else will soon be playing her in a biopic. Yikes

RihRih was hospitalized in May after a huge alcohol binge. She's been drinking heavily since she was a teen, and her alcohol abuse combined with her gruelling work schedule is taking its toll.

"Rihana is spiraling out of control and is headed for an early grave," explained a worried insider. "It never seems to be one beer or one cocktail. Once she gets started, RihRih pounds drinks all night long, sometimes until the sun comes up. She definitely goes on binges. She's been a hard drinker since her teens and her friends and family are desperately urging her to get into rehab."

Medical experts express even more dire warnings.

"Rihanna could be dead tomorrow from liver failure," says Dr. Gabe Mirkin who has never treated the Barbadian songbird. Nevertheless, he warns that "anybody who drinks alcohol for more than two hours a day, even if it is binge drinking once a week, is looking at premature death. Once the liver is permanently dam­aged, it's over."

Yikes.

Hopefully, Rihanna's family and friends can throw her an intervention and pressure her to get the help she needs before it's too late.

© Hope Carson 2011

Hope Carson is the author of 2 books: A Roaring Girl: An Interview with the Thinking Man's Hooker and A Thousand and One Night Stands: The Life of Jon Vincent. You can follow her on Twitter

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