Former “High School Musical” heartthrob Zac Efron did a stint in rehab for cocaine earlier this year, TMZ reported Tuesday. Efron went to rehab after his drug use spiraled out of control while he was filming the Seth Rogen movie, “Neighbors,” in April, the website reported.

Actor Matthew Perry exchanged heated words with British journalist Peter Hitchens about drug addiction and prevention on BBC’s Newsnight, with the former Friends star claiming Hitchens’ ideas were as “ludicrous as saying that Peter Pan was real”. Hitchens lambasted addicts as people who chose to take drugs and did not deserve sympathy, especially from the “feeble” legal system.

Catherine Zeta-Jones has returned home after leaving a treatment facility where she was being treated for her bipolar II disorder. The actress was spotted driving to her New York City apartment Tuesday after dropping off her daughter at school, according to People and E! News.

The 36-year-old troubled star – who has four-year-old twins Bob and Max with ‘Anger Management’ star Charlie Sheen – is believed to have been battling an addiction to crystal methamphetamine while she was carrying twin boys and allegedly kept this from medical staff involved in the safe delivery of her children – who were born seven weeks early in March …

Robert Downey Jr. said he started smoking weed at age 8 and did blow with Jack Nicholson and talked about life in jail and his plans for growing old in a revealing interview with Rolling Stone. The Academy Award nominee divulged that his father started giving him drugs when he was just 8-years-old, which eventually led to a debilitating heroin …

Winnipeg police are investigating the death of a 69-year-old man found in an apartment in St. Vital. On Friday afternoon, police were called to check on the well-being of a resident of a residential block on Fernwood Avenue, in St. Vital’s Alpine Place neighbourhood. The man was found dead and police consider the death suspicious. Police are now awaiting results …

A small single engine airplane made an emergency landing on the Major Deegan Expressway this afternoon, shortly after 3 p.m. north of the Mosholu Parkway intersection. It appears that its three passengers were not seriously injured. The plane, a Piper Cherokee, reportedly left from Danbury, Connecticut for a sightseeing tour around the Statue of Liberty. When it experienced difficulty it …

Actor Brad Pitt reportedly gave waitress Undine Orth, 24, a tip of over $700 after dinner at Japanese eatery Kuchi here. He was there to celebrate actress-fiancee Angelina Jolie’s 38th birthday.

She’s definitely not trouble when she walks in. Taylor Swift was feeling extremely generous in Philadelphia, one of the cities on her current tour with openers Austin Mahone and Ed Sheeran. After her show, she went to get food at Ralph’s Italian Restaurant, and at the end of the night, tipped $500.

Britney Spears left a 100-dollar tip to a waiter after he helped calm down her five-year-old son Jayden when the youngster started crying in a restaurant. The Hold It Against Me singer was out eating at a restaurant in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles with Jayden and six-year-old son Sean when her youngest began crying and wouldn’t stop.

R&B star Rihanna has given USD 200 as a tip to a waiter in a bid to be his biggest ever tipper. The 24-year-old ‘Diamonds’ singer caused a stir at the Laugh Factory Comedy Club here when she gave the handsome amount to a staff during a night out with her friends, reported TMZ online.