Kathie Lee Gifford lambasted for implying parents of addicts are failures

Kathie Lee Gifford puts her foot in it a lot. She recently asked Martin Short how his deceased wife was doing, and she just comes across as careless in general. Maybe that has something to do with all the wine she drinks on the job. Kathie Lee has a new interview with Family Circle in which she asserts that neither she nor Hoda are alcoholics despite how much they drink on television. She also says offhand that she must be doing something right as a mother because my kids [son Cody, 22, and daughter Cassidy, 19] havent been arrested, in rehab or kicked out of school. A lot of people took offense at that, and claimed that Kathie Lee was implying that drug addiction was the result of bad parenting. Theyre laying into her on Facebook and sharing some sad stories of loss and addiction. Here... [via Cele Bitchy]