LeAnn Rimes Bizarre Breakdown: Phoned And Cursed Out Twitter Follower Before Entering Treatment
Aug. 30 2012, Published 2:30 p.m. ET
By David Perel - Executive Vice President/Managing Editor Breaking Celebrity News
Before LeAnn Rimes entered treatment -- reportedly for "anxiety and stress" -- the country singer exhibited bizarre and erratic behavior, including phoning and cursing a woman who stopped following her on Twitter!
While Rimes engaged in a very public Twitter war earlier this month after one follower accused her of cheating with Eddie Cibrian, she had a far more bizarre meltdown right before that, going on a profanity-laced tirade against a teacher who stopped being a fan of the star. Breaking Celebrity News has the exclusive details of how LeAnn found and confronted Kimberly Smiley, the woman who stopped following the star on Twitter!
Smiley was stunned when she answered the phone earlier this year and the voice on the other end said: "Hey b**ch this is LeAnn you have 5 minutes to say whatever you want to me!". Yes, it was the real LeAnn and according to Smiley the star filled their conversation with extensive profanity.
In fact, Smiley said that she has "never heard a person cuss so much.
"I even asked her to watch it, saying, 'Your language -- so trashy!' I was also surprised that she thought I'd just change my mind about her and want to come hang with her," Smiley said. "I don't like her, not because of the affair (although I don't agree with it), but because of her taunting of Brandi and using those boys in her sick game."
Rimes’ obsession with Twitter is what led her to Smiley, who followed the star in 2010 when she was still reeling from the "home-wrecker" label some media outlets had tagged her with after she hooked up with a married Brandi Glanville’s husband Eddie Cibrian. Rimes was publicly feuding with Brandi.
Smiley became a strong supporter of Brandi’s on Twitter and LeAnn blocked her. Smiley claims she was harassed by many of the singer's fervent fans and charges that she learned through other Twitter users that Rimes had set up a phony account (handle: @wewenlove) account "to harass Brandi."
That backstory set the stage for March 26 of this year when Rimes went to lu