In ‘Country Strong,’ Gwyneth Paltrow plays a country strong rising back from the bottom. But before she could do that, she had to learn how to take the fall.

“I just couldn’t understand how you could be so drunk that you could wreck people’s lives and then wake up the next day and pretend everything was fine,” she said in an interview with Reuters. “I struggled with that.”

Seeking inspiration and insight, Paltrow said that she reached out to her ‘Iron Man’ co-star Robert Downey, Jr., who went through a well documented battle with addiction and misbehavior.

“I asked Robert, ‘How does this work?’” she said. “He was really articulate about addiction and the psychology behind it. He really helped me a lot.”

The results, it seems, may be as successful as Downey’s own comeback.

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Anderson Cooper hangs out in Times Square before appearing on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
Kathy Griffin made it through another year hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve celebration with her BFF Anderson Cooper. She and AC made sure from the opening bell that we realized the sassy-tongued comedienne could get the hook at any moment if another D-word (2008) or F-word (2009) moment were to transpire. (“Anything can happen,” Cooper intoned before commercial breaks). There definitely was a sense of spontaneity you just don’t get with Seacrest-Clark, but not surprisingly, Griffin was a good girl for the full 90-minute broadcast. She danced to NKOTBSB. She made references to Anderson Cooper’s genitals. She punched Anderson Cooper in the stomach (incessantly). The schtick was a little heavy-handed out of the gate, but once she got Cooper to loosen up and giggle a bit, things settled into a fairly entertaining and just-slightly-awkward zone that was fun to watch.

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Kesha performed at Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2011 in Times Square in New York last night. The signer performed a medley of her hit songs including her latest single “We R Who We R”