According to Us Weekly, the only reason Nicole Richie was on the painkiller Vicodin during her recent arrest was to treat her menstruation cramps.
Richie, 25, was arrested early Monday morning for driving under the influence of marijuana and Vicodin, after she was seen driving the wrong way down a California highway.
"She knows she made a mistake, but overall she's in a better place," says a close friend of Richie.
"She has come a long way from her heroin days."
She says she isn't addicted to pills, and is insisting to friends that she only "occasionally" takes Vicodin once a month at the start of her menstruation cycle.
Richie is also unhappy that California cops listed her weight at 85 pounds on the police report because "she's so proud of her weight gain," says the source, who adds that Richie has gained about ten pounds in the last two months and actually weighs around 95 pounds.
"She doesn't know where the cops came up with 85 pounds and it's annoying to her."
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Here's Nicole leaving her boyfriend Joel Madden's house (Hilary Duff's ex) yesterday.
According to Page Six, Joel dumped Hilary Duff because she refused to sleep with him. Even rhough Madden and Richie have only been dating a few weeks she listed him as her "emergency contact person" at her booking.
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