Struggle Street famous pregnant bong smoker Billie Jo Wilkie is back behind bars after a violent daylight hammer attack on another woman earlier this year.
Wilkie, 32, who made international headlines in 2014 after smoking a pipe while sitting on the toilet while pregnant, attacked the woman outside the Meriton Suites Broadbeach in March following an arranged meeting.
CCTV footage showed Wilkie repeatedly punching and kicking the woman before pulling out the hammer and hitting her several times on the body and then on the head.
The woman fell to the ground as Wilkie fled the scene.
Appearing at Southport Magistrates Court via video link on Friday, Wilkie pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm while armed, 9News reports.
His defense lawyer told the court he suffered a sad upbringing, which contributed to his behavior.
Wilkie was sentenced to a year and a half in prison and will be eligible for parole in January.
Struggle Street star Billie Jo Wilkie, 32, has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison after attacking another woman at the Meriton Suites hotel in Broadbeach in March.
The two had previously agreed to meet, but as soon as they met, Jo Wilkie launched a sudden attack.
Wilkie originally gained notoriety in the first season of the controversial SBS television documentary ‘Struggle Street’, where she was filmed smoking a hookah while pregnant.
He appeared alongside his partner Bob Quinn, who died in June 2024.
Wilkie originally gained notoriety in the first season of the controversial SBS TV documentary ‘Struggle Street’ alongside her partner Bob Quinn.
The couple later told Daily Mail Australia after filming wrapped that they were both “crushed” on the ice during production.
Wilkie caused huge outrage when she was filmed smoking a pipe in the bathroom while pregnant. She was also seen lighting a cigarette when she went into labor later in the series.
Wilkie went to prison in 2015 after she was caught driving while disqualified four times, and twice in one day.
She was jailed again in 2018 on multiple charges relating to a robbery spree with another friend, who was not Quinn, in Westfield Mt Druitt.
Wilkie and Quinn managed to stay out of the public eye for the next four years before Quinn died on June 26 and Wilkie moved to Queensland.