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(Photo: Supplied)Richard Taitaddiction expert and owner of Carrara Treatment Spa & Wellness Center — a luxury rehab facility in California — gives Our view from inside where some famous people go for rehab and what a stay in Carrara would be like.
“They all have 1,000 thread count sheets, all Egyptian cotton sheets,” Taite said recently My Weekly in an exclusive interview. “You walk in and you see their Carrara chocolate on their robes. And it’s not like that robe you get at some lame spa.”
Carrara’s $165,000-a-month price tag includes many exercise options like tai chi, special forms of yoga, pilates, as well as multiple pools, a spa, flowers from a French florist — and we can’t forget the $600 candles! Moreover, you can even bring your dog.
The wellness center also offers skin treatments. “Do you know you could be in Carrara for 30 days and get treatment every day and not get the same treatment? I mean facials, peels, wraps, massages, variations of all of that,” he said.
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Taite said he received about 2,000 resumes as a chef, but once he saw a woman who had previously worked 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 the Blue Zone diet because “part of self-care is what we put into our bodies.”
The “Blue Zone Diet” is mostly plant-based and focuses on unprocessed foods designed to improve overall health. Carrara follows this up by incorporating plenty of fresh ingredients into its menu.
“It’s a Mediterranean dish … (the chef) made cooked salmon and Chilean sea bass with lotus root and cabbage and all these different delicious exotic vegetables,” he said of the food served at Carrara. “It’s organic and it’s made fresh every day and it’s made with love every day, (someone) really cares.”
Taite also noted that the treatment center is not all fancy.
“People come to treatment and they’re completely broken, they’re ashamed. They feel like they’ve screwed up their whole lives,” he said. “When people come into treatment, they need to be loved and nurtured and respected and supported, empathy and compassion and attuned to their own needs before they even know they need it. This is important. Now Carrara is built for people who need to have the best experience in these difficult circumstances.”
He continued, “It’s not just for people who need to have the best of everything… It’s for people who need to have the most comfortable experience that humanly can have under these difficult circumstances.”
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Taite is the former owner of Cliffside Malibu, where he worked with celebrities such as Scott Disick and Oscar De La Hoya. Taite’s passion for to help people with addiction it stems from his own understanding and experience of what it was like to be an addict for two decades. (Taite has now celebrated more than 20 years of sobriety.)
Taite also says that a big difference between Carrara and other treatment centers is that they “don’t leak” information about inpatients. “We would never even consider that… Their identity will be protected for sure,” he said.
Carrara Treatment Spa & Wellness Center offers three locations in LA and one in Malibu.
With reporting by Amanda Williams
