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Keith Richards and Ron Wood Reportedly Helping Each Other Stay Sober

Keith RichardsAfter 40-plus years on the sauce, Rolling Stones guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood have both decided to give up the hooch. If that's not enough, the recently estranged bandmates have reportedly mended fences and come together to help one another with their mutual recoveries.

"Keith and Ronnie hadn't had much to do with one another but now they're back in touch," friends of the rockers tell U.K. newspaper the Express. "They've both given up alcohol recently so they can obviously relate to each other's situation. They've been giving one another plenty of moral support."

Following decades of alcohol abuse, the cigarette-dangling, whiskey clutching Richards, 66, was urged by physicians to stop imbibing for health reasons.

Meanwhile, Wood -- who saw his marriage fall apart in 2008 after he started a debauchery-filled affair with young Russian waitress Ekaterina Ivanova -- is purportedly being guided through sobriety by new girlfriend Ana Araujo. Last month, Wood entered rehab for the eighth time after reports circulated at the end of 2009 that the guitarist might be fired from the Stones if he didn't seek treatment.

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john

GOOD GOING GUYS!! STAY OFF BOOZE AND HARD DRUGS TOO.

GO ORGANIC...HERBS AND MORE HERBS.

ONLY SMOKE MEDICAL POT!! TOBACCO SUCKS AND YOU KNOW IT TOO.
YOU GUYS ARE TWO THE BEST GUITARISTS IN THE WORLD.
AND YOU BOTH PLAY IN THE BEST BAND(S) IN THE WORLD TOO.

GOD BLESS THE ROLLING STONES FOREVER!! AND I MEAN FOREVER !!! HAPPY SPRING 2010. AND THANKS FOR LIVING THIS LONG ...
JOHN J. BARLEY-CORN

April 03 2010 at 10:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tony bix

IVE BEEN SOBER FOR! !YEAR AND IT'S A LOT MORE EASYER TO LIVE And Deal with things Im Proud Of Them!!!

February 21 2010 at 8:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Harris, Kansas City,Missouri

Why stop now. No drugs, booze, they might die after they clean up.

February 13 2010 at 1:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DENISE

I never said I had their lifestyle! I said that if they can abuse their bodies that much for that long, I should have it made! How did you people make it through life with your poor reading and comprehension skills???

February 11 2010 at 8:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
balinwire

You mean to tell me they are alive? Pickled is more like it.

February 10 2010 at 7:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
roger

i would think richards' body would reject clean blood

February 10 2010 at 7:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bobbi fuentes

it's never too late to live a clean and sober life-my 1st gift of sobriety was feeling good in the a.m and it just gets better from there on

February 10 2010 at 7:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jerold

WOW,talk about the blind leading the blind!!!!!

February 10 2010 at 6:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
petey

why bother?

February 10 2010 at 5:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Holly

Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Mick Jagger's dissipated lifestyles are so evident in their faces. I've long been a fan of the Stones as they're in my age group but no one I know looks that bad. These 3 are like the picture of Dorian Grey come to life.

February 10 2010 at 3:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply