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  • Alison Krauss’ Impersonator Heads Back To Court

    Peggy Sue Evers, the woman who admitted to impersonating country music singer Alison Krauss to swindle money, has returned to court in Arkansas after being arrested in New Mexico.

    According to KHOG, a warrant for Evers arrest was issued after she failed to appear on her court date. Authorities later arrested her in Albuquerque, N.M. and brought her back to Arkansas where she was charged with failure to appear.

    Evers pleaded not guilty to the charge, and her trial date has been set for February 15, 2015.

    Earlier this year, Evers pleaded guilty to impersonating Krauss and marrying a 75-year-old Fayetteville man after convincing him she was the singer. Evers was sentenced to “eight years of probation, ordered to pay restitution, return four cars to the man and sign the man’s home back to him.”

    Authorities believe Evers was hiding out in New Mexico to avoid appearing in court. After her arrest, she was transferred from a New Mexico jail to the Washington County Detention Center, where she said she has eaten nothing but a hotdog in nine days. Jail officials claim she has been offered food, but Evers simply refuses to eat.

    “It’s not that. What it is that I’ve been really sick. In August I was in the hospital for more than two weeks,” Evers said.

    She explained that she has to have her medication to be able to eat, and the jail has not given it to her. “When I was at the jail in Albuquerque, they gave me my medicine, so I didn’t have any trouble,” she said.

    Krauss’ publicist, Regina Joskow, has chosen not to comment on the case.

  • Trace Adkins Enters Rehab After Brawl On Cruise

    Country music superstar Trace Adkins checked himself into a rehab facility this morning after allegedly getting into a brawl with an impersonator, while he was celebrating his birthday, on a seven-day country music cruise, for Norwegian Cruise Lines.

    Adkins was reportedly intoxicated when he heard an impersonator singing karaoke to one of his songs, and then started a fist fight with the man. Ironically, Adkins had earlier tweeted a message to his Twitter followers telling them to behave themselves. “Up here in my suite, overlooking the pools. Behave yourselves,” he tweeted on the first day of the cruise. Apparently, Adkins should have listened to his own advice. When the ship docked in Jamaica, Adkins made the decision to cut the trip short, and enter a rehab center.

    Adkins had a previous stint in rehab in December 2001, and had stayed sober for over 12 years. What caused him to relapse is currently unknown. A rep for Adkins released the following statement on his behalf: “[Trace] has entered a treatment facility after a setback in his battle with alcoholism. As he faces these issues head-on, we ask that his family’s privacy will be respected.”

    Adkins opened up about his 2001 stay in rehab, during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2011.

    Nine years ago, I had a very caring and responsible manager who forced me into an intervention situation. I went and did my month in rehab, and it worked for me. I’ve been sober for nine years now. It had gotten to a point in my life where it was probably going to take me down that road, too. If it didn’t end up in that situation, it certainly was going to cost me my career — and my manager saw that, and they cared enough about me to gather my friends and family and co-workers all together, and they put me through one of those gut-wrenching interventions.

    If you’ve ever been through one of those things, it’s the most humiliating experience you’ll ever have. To hear people you respect and love sit there and tell you the kind of pain you’ve been causing them. They tear you down completely then they haul you off to rehab. So I did that, and yeah, I’m an alcoholic. And are there enablers? There are, but I luckily had a group around me that finally put their foot down.

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