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For Immediate Release
Contact:  Shelby@valerieallenpr.com
310-264-1888

Pasadena Recovery Center Presents

Special Screening of

Bob And The Monster  

Q&A with Bob Forrest and Dr. Drew to Follow

Wednesday, Dec. 5th at 6 PM


Pasadena, CA- Pasadena Recovery Center is holding a special screening of the award-winning documentary  Bob And The Monster  on Wednesday, Dec. 5th at 6 pm.  The film features Celebrity Rehab’s Bob Forrest and follows Bob, an outspoken indie-rock hero, through his life-threatening struggle with addiction, to his transformation into one of the most influential and controversial drug counselors. This uplifting documentary reveals the horrors of addiction along with the prospects of hope when one finds their path to recovery. The filmmaker Keirda Bahruth, will also join Bob Forrest and Dr. Drew for a Q&A following the screening.

Bob and the Monster includes contemporary footage, animation and compelling interviews and performances from Bob’s past that reveal his complicated and troubled but hopeful soul. Testimony from his peers include John Frusciante, Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Steven Adler and Courtney Love. The film has been featured at many film festivals and is winner of Best Documentary at CIMMFest and winner of Audience Best Documentary and Best Trailer at Gold Coast International Film Festival.

Don’t miss Bob and the Monster on Wednesday December 5th at 6 PM at the Pasadena Recovery Center. Please RSVP to 310-264-1888 or Shelby@valerieallenpr.com

About Bob Forrest: Bob Forrest was the lead vocalist and lyricist for Los Angeles bands Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief. Along with being a drug counselor at Pasadena Recovery Center he has appeared alongside Dr. Drew Pinsky on Rehab with Dr. Drew, Celebrity Rehab and Sober House. In 2010, he also Bob began hosting a weekly radio show, All Up In The Interweb, airing Wednesday nights on Indie1031.com.

About Pasadena Recovery Center: The Pasadena Recovery Center is a 98 bed drug and alcohol treatment center which was co-founded in 2000 by renowned psychiatrist Dr. Lee Bloom and his children, Alison Triessl and Michael Bloom. Pasadena Recovery Center's residential and outpatient treatment program is twelve-step based and integrates treatment of chronic substance abuse with spiritual, mental, and physical recovery necessary to be a productive member of society. Vh1's “ Rehab with Dr. Drew, "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," "Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew" and several episodes of A&E's Intervention were all filmed on site at Pasadena Recovery Center.


Pasadena Recovery Center
1811 N. Raymond Ave, Pasadena CA 91103

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