The National Enquirer and The Globe ae owned by the same company. Having read both over a period of many years (hey, what can I say?) it has seemed that if a story appears in the Enquirer it is true - meaning the person giving the story has passed a polygraph or provided solid proof of the story to the Enquirer investigators. And the phrase "our source for this story has passed a polygraph" is often inlcuded in the text of the story.
On the other hand, stories in the Globe seem to be the ones that are not as solidly verified. I don't think the Globe makes things up out of whole cloth, but I think they are less sure about the verification of the facts when they choose to put it into the Globe rather than the Enquirer.
Both of these publications pay people for stories, so that must be kept in mind. However, this being a capitalistic society, it is legal for people to "sell a story" and it certainly has allowed the Enquirer to break several legitimate stories (John Edwards' love child) that the mainline newspapers missed.
Didn't Leonard Padilla say a while back that LE already knows who the father is? In among Leonard's BS there has been quite a bit of early knowledge of things that came out later to be true.
Also, FWIW I've known plenty of people who are in chronic pain who have a sex life. (sometimes they just take an extra dose of their pain medication and "go for it") I have personally encountered people who were bedridden with casts on appendages having sex in their hospital bed! So don't ever think that because someone has a chronic pain condition that they can't or don't have sex. They do have a high rate of suicide though and that is well known in the medical community.