user: Ke$ha expresses her thanks to fans amid rehab stint: ‘I’ll be back soon and better than ever’
Ke$ha is battling eating disorders in a 30-day rehab stint, but sent a tweet to fans via a friend to thank them for their support. ‘I’m overwhelmed to tears by all of the love,’ the tweet read.

Despite having no access to social media, Ke$ha found a way to thank her fans from the confines of rehab.

"This is Kesha's friend," a confidant of the 26-year-old singer wrote on her Twitter account Tuesday. "She asked me to tweet an update for her because she doesn't have access to Twitter right now."

The "Die Young" singer checked into a 30-day rehab treatment at Timberline Knolls, located outside of Chicago, on Jan. 3 for anorexia and bulimia. It is the same facility that housed Demi Lovato in 2010.

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"She says 'THANK YOU. SOOO MUCH. I'm overwhelmed to tears by all of the love, letters, and support!!!" the tweet read. "I'll be back soon and better than ever."

Ke$ha's mother, Pebe Sebert, opened up about just how bad things got for her daughter through her body image struggles.

"I've watched my beautiful, self-confident, brilliant daughter be berated and ridiculed for her looks and weight to the point that she almost died," Sebert told People.

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"The doctors told me her blood pressure and sodium levels were so low, they'd never seen it that low except with someone who'd had a heart attack or stroke," she added. "They said it was a miracle she hadn't already dropped dead on stage."

Ke$ha released a statement when she began her rehab stint to confirm why she was checking in.

"I'm a crusader for being yourself and loving yourself, but I've found it hard to practice," she said in the statement. "I'll be unavailable for the next 30 days, seeking treatment for my eating disorder … to learn to love myself again, exactly as I am."

As she continues bettering herself, her fans have not stopped supporting her or her music.

"Ohhh and she can't believe 'Timber' is still number one!" her friend wrote in a follow-up tweet. "F-k YEAH animals! PARTY ON!!!!"
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Despite having no access to social media, Ke$ha found a way to thank her fans from the confines of rehab. "This is Kesha's friend," a confidant of the 26-year-old singer wrote on her Twitter account Tuesday.
If SEC goes after Texas and Texas A&M, it won't be the first time
Vince Dooley, Georgia's athletic director from 1979-2004 and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, told Florida Today recently that the conference almost added Texas and Texas A&M in 1991. That's when the league added Arkansas and South Carolina to create the first conference championship game for BCS schools.

"Once the goal was set, what we wanted to do was have 12 teams and have a championship game, we initially discussed in some detail of adding Texas and Texas A&M," Dooley said. "Had we done that, that would have made it a 14-team league."

Dooley said it "was close," but the plan to add four teams instead of two fizzled out at the end.

"You had to have both of them," Dooley said. "I think A&M, of the two, showed the most interest and it was a good possibility, had Texas been able to do it. But at that particular time, probably politics more than anything else (stopped it)."

That political maneuvering, Dooley said, came from the state of Texas - not the SEC. He felt like Texas A&M was ready to make the jump.

"It was a goal (of SEC officials) anyway, let's put it that way," Dooley said of trying Texas and Texas A&M. "It worked out fine. A&M was more interested but you had to have both and they had to have both to go."

-- David Jones, Florida Today

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