Yasmine Bleeth's own words vividly reveal how much her addiction affected her. As The Sydney Morning Herald quotes the February 2003 issue of Glamour, she said that she would sit at home and call her drug dealer "like ordering Chinese food" delivered to her house. By 1999, two years after she got fired from Baywatch, she'd lost so much weight from drug use that she dropped from a size 8 to a size 0 and "looked like an alien."
The turning point, Bleeth said, came when she stopped using cocaine socially and started using it alone. "Once I started doing drugs alone," The New York Post quotes her, "I stopped seeing friends, then stopped answering the phone altogether. I just listened to my messages once a day to make sure there were no emergencies. Eventually I stopped doing even that." After finishing her rehab, Bleeth said (via The Sydney Morning Herald), "Consciously trying to stay off drugs is now part of my life and always will be."
For the most part, Bleeth has kept far out of the limelight in the two decades since that Glamour article was written. And yet there are candid snapshots of her everyday life here and there on sites like The Sun, The New York Post, and the Daily Mail, and they reveal that she just might have stuck to her commitment.
If you or anyone you know needs help with addiction issues, help is available. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
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