A photo of Jackie ‘O’ Henderson taken before his rehab stint for drug and alcohol addiction in 2022 has angered his Australian fans.
In the image, the radio star, 49, is seen smoking her last cigarette as she awaits the results of a Covid test before checking in at the Betty Ford Clinic.
Jackie’s Chanel bag lay face down next to her as she lit her cigarette while sitting on the shoulder of a parking lot in front of the admissions office.
However, many fans were unimpressed to see that the radio star had placed her designer bag, which retails for $17,260, on the floor.
“Chanel bag on the ground while she sits on the sidewalk too, makes your heart bleed,” one person commented.
‘Is that her little Chanel bag on the way…?’ another fan questioned.
The never-before-seen image has been revealed in his new memoir, The Whole Truth, which chronicles the radio star’s extensive drug use.
In the memoir, Jackie explains that she began taking “codeine pills with a glass of wine” in an attempt to escape reality.
A photo of Jackie ‘O’ Henderson taken before his rehab stint for drug and alcohol addiction in 2022 has angered his Australian fans.
“At first it was casual, until it wasn’t. “To tell the truth, while over the years when times got tough I would go to the pharmacy and buy Nurofen Plus for relief, it was different now,” he wrote.
‘To experience any kind of effect, I have been taking approximately ten Nurofen Plus tablets at a time for years. Now that I was deeper into my addiction, I was taking that amount three or four times a day.’
Jackie admitted that her addiction began to worsen after her divorce from Lee Henderson, to whom she was married from 2003 to 2018.
The divorce caused her to spend less time with her daughter Kitty, now 13, causing her to suffer unbearable bouts of sadness and loss.
‘In an attempt to cope with the loneliness and guilt I felt, I made another bad decision. “I started taking sleeping pills (Stilnox) on days I was alone, as a way to numb the loneliness,” she continued.
Many fans were not very impressed to see that the radio star had placed her designer bag on the floor.
The small classic Chanel bag sells for $17,260.
“It was a cowardly way of facing my pain, of finding solace in what was slowly becoming an addiction.”
At that time, in 2018, the Australian government began cracking down on the purchase of painkillers without a prescription, ending the purchase of codeine without a prescription.
It wasn’t long before Jackie managed to get a “stronger codeine painkiller”, Panadeine Forte, through a contact and started taking “fewer tablets for the same effect”.
The former Masked Singer judge began cutting back on her use on the days she was having her daughter, but her body had already become dependent on the drugs.
‘If I went several hours without them, my hands would start to shake and shake. I would get chills and stomach cramps, and the nausea and diarrhea would come on much faster than you would imagine,” Jackie said.
“If I didn’t want to feel dizzy and faint, I needed something to help me.”
The never-before-seen footage has been revealed in his new memoir, The Whole Truth, which chronicles the radio star’s extensive drug use.
Elsewhere in his memoir, the radio star details the great lengths he would go to to hide his addiction from his friends and explained how he would hide and dispose of the empty pill packets he kept in his house.
“I didn’t want to throw them in the trash… I would put them all in a white plastic bag and then, after two weeks, I would throw my misfortune into a random container on the way to work.” he added.
The media star opened up about her rapid weight gain during the peak of her addiction, which she claims was triggered by drinking “a bottle of wine” or a gin and tonic, all while taking Stilnox and then ordering UberEats “every day.” . day’ during Covid.
One Sunday morning, when Jackie woke up to the remains of her UberEats order from the night before on the floor next to her bed along with a half-empty glass of gin and tonic and cigarettes in an ashtray, her supplier called her to tell her that she was “arrested” and could no longer provide pain medication.
She confided in her best friend, Gemma O’Neill, who quickly admitted Jackie to the Betty Ford Clinic, located two hours from Los Angeles.
Jackie announced her break from the Kyle & Jackie show before she and Gemma flew to California together, with the radio presenter wearing a cap, glasses and a face mask to conceal her identity during the long-haul flight.