She’s had some problems and Heather Locklear showed that she is very happy to help someone who is down on their luck.
The Melrose Place alum rolled down her window and handed over some bills as she and her fiancé Chris Heisser drove through their Los Angeles neighborhood this week to help a panhandler asking for money.
He also gave her some words of support when the couple stopped at the traffic light.
Perhaps it was its pink neon sign with the words “Only God will save his people” scrawled in capital letters that attracted the actress.
Makeup-free and looking healthy and trim, Heather was dressed for comfort in a soft pink suit and matching hat and carried a Louis Vuitton bag.
Heather hands the money to the beggar while her fiancé Chris Heisser stops at a traffic light in Thousand Oaks, California.
She had some words of comfort for the boy as she handed him the money.
Locklear and Heisser, both 62, were on their way home from visiting friends Tuesday when they made an unscheduled stop to help.
Makeup-free and looking healthy and trim, Heather was dressed for comfort in a soft pink suit and matching hat and carried a Louis Vuitton bag.
The stop at the traffic light in Thousand Oaks was the first time in more than six months that the former high school sweethearts were seen together.
Heather, who has admitted to problems with alcohol and pills, has been to rehab at least 20 times over the years and so recognizes when someone might need a little help.
He had been doing better since reconnecting with former motocross racer Heisser. The couple got engaged just as the Covid pandemic lockdown began in April 2020.
But concern about Heather, who also starred in TV classics Dynasty and TJ Hooker, increased last July when, looking disheveled, she was seen climbing a narrow ledge of a Malibu office building, wearing flip-flops and having to hold on to a pillar. for support.
The video showed her bewildered as she sat at the top of the stairs reading her personal diary and talking to herself.
At one point she was seen angrily pointing at something written in the diary and gesticulating wildly before stuffing it firmly back into her bag.
She sat for a long period of self-reflection at the top of the stairs before running toward Heisser, who was waiting for her in his car.
Heather has had her own problems during about 20 stints in rehab, so she sympathizes with anyone down on their luck.
Locklear and Heisser, both 62, were high school sweethearts but lost touch for 40 years, during which time she married rockers Tommy Lee and Richie Sambora.
The beggar was carrying a large pink neon sign that said “Only God will save his people.”
A source confirmed to DailyMail.com that he had relapsed and returned to drinking his favorite tequila and
But since that alarming incident, Heather has been seen looking healthy, and this is what she looked like when she handed the cash to the homeless man.
Locklear and Heisser, also 62, first dated in the late 1970s, when they were both students at Newbury Park High School.
But they lost touch for 40 years and Heather married rockers Tommy Lee from 1986 to 1993 and Richie Sambora from 1994 to 2007, with whom she has a daughter, Ava, now 26.
Ava got engaged to Tyler Farrar, her boyfriend of four years, last weekend.
It has been the strong support of her lover and daughter that has helped Heather overcome problems that were first reported after she was pulled over for suspicion of DUI shortly after her split from Bon Jovi guitarist Sambora.
Although tests confirmed that his blood alcohol level was below the legal limit, authorities believed that the prescription medications he was taking for his anxiety and depression had caused his erratic driving.
The actress displayed erratic behavior and was seen walking along a ledge and talking to herself while appearing distressed during a visit to an office building last summer.
The Melrose Place alum opted to keep her fiancé Chris Heisser waiting in her car and was seen swinging on the edge of the building last year.
Heather has had the support of her fiancé Heisser and her daughter Avas, 26, who got engaged last weekend to her boyfriend of four years Tyler Farrar.
Heather first found attention with her role as Sammy Jo Carrington on the ’80s soap opera Dynasty (left). The following decade she played Amanda on Melrose Place.
Over the next decade, police were called to Heather’s home on multiple occasions, and she would rack up eight different charges after allegedly attacking law enforcement officers who were trying to calm her down.
She ultimately pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to three years of probation.
In February 2018, she was arrested for domestic violence and assault on a police officer after she allegedly kicked three law enforcement officers as they tried to calm her down during an argument between her and Heisser.
Then, in April of the following year, she crashed her Porsche and, after being convicted of nine misdemeanors, was ordered by the court to go to rehab.
Locklear was a television staple during the 1980s and 1990s. She first had major success as Sammy Jo, Blake Carrington’s daughter-in-law on Dynasty. She then played Officer Stacy Sheridan on the police drama TJ Hooker before landing her signature role as the manipulative Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place.
She was later cast in the sitcom Spin City as campaign manager for Barry Bostwick’s New York mayor character when he decided to run for senator.
She was nominated for six Golden Globes (four for Melrose Place and two for Spin City) without winning any.