It turns out my strange addiction is to horroreality TV shows about people with strange addictions.

Thus, TLC's new show My Strange Addiction is already threatening to dethrone Hoarders and Obsessed and Toddlers and Tiaras as my new favorite horroreality show about that. It's kind of like if you crossed Intervention with True Life: I'm Crazy in a Creepily Specific Manner! Needless to say, I will devotedly watch every episode, curled up in a ball of hypochondrial horror, fearing that I will become one of these people with the irony being that I already am one.

Check out the promo and two sneak peeks from the first episode, including a toilet-paper-eater and a blow-dryer-sleeper-wither:


Now check out the two ladies whose addictions will take center stage on the premiere, Wednesday, December 29 at 9pm on TLC. Guess what: They're strange.

Kesha: "I'm 34 years old and I love eating toilet paper."


"A good place where people don't pay attention to you eating toilet paper is the movie theater." Good to know! Oh, excuse me, I mean gross to know. Kesha doesn't really sound like she wants to kick this addiction. She sounds like she wants to write a How to Eat Toilet Paper Everywhere Without People Noticing for Dummies. I bet she would have a section on restaurants, and it would be one sentence, and that sentence would be "In the bathroom," and we'd all be like, "Why didn't *I* think of that?!"

Lori: "I'm 31 years old and I'm addicted to sleeping with my blow dryer."


"I am selfish with my blowdryer. It's just part of me. I don't want to go without it." Oh, Lori. You are somehow even farther gone than Kesha. I mean, no you're not. Eating toilet paper is disgusto-bananas. But when you said "it's psychological, it's emotional" about how you require a centralized stream of heat constantly moving on or near your unconscious body at all times, and how that is an emotional need for you that you are completely unwilling to admit is unhealthy and dangerous and terrible for the environment (not to mention your sex life, what!)--yeah, you are.

For real, though: TLC knows this is crazy and funny (that's why they made this show, you can tell) but it's also sad. I hope that the therapists on this show can help these women.

Do you have a strange addiction? Or know anyone with a strange addiction? Sharing is caring is comparing.

(Image courtesy of TLC)