Well – what do you know? That Dr. Drew really can work miracles. Just look at how well-scrubbed and borderline sane Frankie Lavern Lons is after a brief trip to VH1′s Celebrity Rehab!

The former star of the BET’s Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is and Frankie & Neffe has completed a stint at Dr. Drew’s Pasadena Recovery Center, where she worked on her dependency to alcohol. (There’s still no cure for her addictions to tomfoolery and much younger men.) Frankie dropped by Good Day Atlanta Tuesday, where she discussed the rehab experience, rooming with supermodel Janice Dickinson and Rachel Uchitel, estranged relationship with daughter Keyshia Cole, and how she embarrassed her family.

Season Four of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew will premiere on VH1 in early 2011.

A “Man Down Situation” is headed for VH1′s Celebrity Rehab. Everyone’s Favorite Delusional Recovering Crackhead, Frankie — best known for her turns on BET’s The Way It Is and Frankie & Neffe — appeared on The Rickey Smiley Morning Show on Atlanta’s Hot 107.9 Thursday morning, where she revealed that she will appear on the presently-shelved fourth season of VH1′s Celebrity Rehab.

The sometimes-estranged mother of singer Keyshia Cole is enlisting the help of addictiion specialist Dr. Drew in her battle against alcohol.

“I have really started overdoing it with my drinking. It’s taking its toll because sometimes I wake up and don’t remember nothing. I’m hiding stuff from myself and that means that I need help.”

The premiere of Celebrity Rehab 4 was postponed by VH1 in May after producers fail to land enough big name celebs to appear on the program. So far, reality stars Tila Tequila and Jason Wahler, and ’80s R&B singer Bonnie Pointer have signed up for the show.

In a statement to her fans Friday, the “Trust” singer says she has ended communication with her family because she was “at a point in my life where I needed serenity and peace to move forward.”

“To all my friends and fans – It’s time that I clear the air. It’s not a secret that I haven’t been in contact with my mother Frankie, and my sisters Neffe and Elite and I never wanted to air out our differences to the public. While I won’t go into detail here I find it necessary to let you guys know I decided to stop communication with them because I was at a point in my life where I needed serenity and peace to move forward. Please know I love my family very much but it was time to let it go. You guys are a witness to a lot of what was happening from watching on air and online. Now that I am becoming a mom my passion for having a loving and peaceful home for my child is my #1 priority. It’s very important to both Daniel and I. My plate is very full; I have a new baby coming, we are planning our wedding and I am working in the studio on a new album that I am close to completing. The stress that my family is giving me with their constant false reports is not healthy and it’s not what I need at this time in my life. Please understand that there are only a few people that can officially confirm or deny anything that’s happening in my life and that’s me, Daniel, and my publicist, Tresa Sanders. And my girl Monica never lies.”
Love Your Girl,

KC

Watch the coonery unfold below:

Keyshia Cole’s recovering crack addict mother, “Man Down” Frankie, and her twentysomething-year-old boyfriend, Mon, had their names tatted on each other during a recent trip to Atlanta.

A tramp stamp at 50? Lordy….Frankie’s getting a little long in the tooth for this kind of foolishness. Would someone please take this woman to church?

Frankie’s new BET reality series, Frankie & Neffe, premieres next month.

Keyshia Cole’s mother Frankie is on the promo trail for her new BET reality show Frankie and Neffe and had the opportunity to set down with Jamie Foster Brown of Sister 2 Sister Magazine.

The recovering addict and mother of eight advises young women to take care of themselves and always put their children first.

When hoodrats become businesswomen: On The Next Maury!

Frankie and Neffe — the mother and sister respectively of Grammy-nominated singing star Keyshia Cole — won’t be bringing their own brand of tomfoolery back to BET in a new spinoff of Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is — – at least not if Keyshia has anything to say about it.

In this interview with Sister 2 Sister Magazine’s Jamie Foster Brown, the “Love” singer says it’s unlikely she’ll sign off on her family’s new reality show.

Frankie & Neffe is scheduled to debut on BET this August.

Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is has taken its final bow on BET, but the Cole Girls aren’t done with us yet.