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(Photo: Supplied)Richard Taiteaddiction specialist and owner of Carrara Treatment Spa & Wellness Center – a luxury rehab facility in California – gives Us an inside look at where some celebrities go to rehab and what it would look like to stay in Carrara.
“They all have 1000 thread count sheets, all Egyptian cotton sheets,” Taite said recently Us Weekly in an exclusive interview. “You’ll walk in and you’ll see their Carrara chocolate on top of their uniform. And it’s not like the outfit you get at a lame spa.”
Carrara’s $165,000 a month price tag includes many exercise class options such as tai chi, special types of yoga, pilates, as well as several pools, a spa, flowers from French Florist – and let’s not forget the $600 candles! Also, you can even bring your dog.
There is also no shortage of skin care treatments at the health centre. “You know you could be in Carrara for 30 days and get treated every day and not get the same treatment? I’m talking facials, scrubs, wraps, massages, different variations of it all,” he said.
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Taite said he received about 2,000 resumes to be a chef, but after he saw a woman who used to work as Stevie Wonder’s personal chef, he hired her “on the spot.” He then told the “amazing” woman that he wanted the food to focus on a blue zone diet because “part of self-care is what we put into our bodies.”
A “blue zone diet” is primarily plant-based, focusing on unprocessed foods designed to improve overall health. Carrara follows this by incorporating many fresh ingredients into its menu.
“It’s Mediterranean food … (the chef) has done boiled salmon and Chilean sea bass with lotus root and kale and all these different delicious exotic vegetables,” he said of the food served at Carrara. “It’s organic, and it’s prepared fresh every day, and it’s prepared with love every day, (by) someone (that) cares.”
Taite also noted that the treatment center is not all luxury.
“People come to treatment, and they’re completely broken, they’re shame-based. They feel they have left their whole life behind,” he said. “When people come into treatment, they need to be loved, nurtured and respected and supported, empathised, (given) compassion and familiar with someone’s needs before they know they have a need . That’s the important thing. Now, Carrara is built for people who, absolutely positively, have to have the best experience under these difficult circumstances.”
He continued, “This isn’t just for people who have to have the best of everything … it’s for people who have to have the single most comfortable experience they can humanly have under the these difficult circumstances.”
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Taite is the former owner of Cliffside Malibu, where he worked with celebrities such as Scott Disick a Oscar De La Hoya. Taite’s passion for help people with addiction derived from his own understanding and experience of what it was like to be a drug addict for two decades. (Taite has now celebrated over 20 years of sobriety.)
Taite also claims that a major difference between Carrara and other treatment centers is that they “don’t leak” inpatient information. “We would never even consider it… Their identity is going to be protected for sure,” he said.
Carrara Treatment Spa & Wellness Center offers three locations in LA and one in Malibu.
With reports from Amanda Williams
