A photo of Jackie ‘O’ Henderson taken before her 2022 stint in rehab for drug and alcohol addiction has infuriated her Australian fans.
The radio star, 49, is pictured smoking her last cigarette as she awaits the results of a Covid test before heading to the Betty Ford Clinic.
Jackie’s Chanel handbag lay face down next to her as she lit the cigarette while sitting in the gutter of a parking lot outside the admissions office.
However, many fans were unimpressed when they saw that the radio star had put her designer handbag, which retails for $17,260, on the floor.
“Chanel’s handbag on the floor while she also sits on the sidewalk, your heart bleeds,” one person commented.
“Is that her little Chanel purse on the way…” another fan wondered.
The never-before-seen photo has been revealed in her new memoir, The Whole Truth, which details 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 her 2022 drug and alcohol rehab stint has infuriated her Australian fans
“It was informal at first, until it wasn’t anymore. “Honestly, while over the years when times got tough I would go to the pharmacy and grab some Nurofen Plus to take the edge off, now things were different,” she wrote.
‘To experience any kind of high, I had to take about ten Nurofen Plus tablets at a time for years. Now that I was deeper in my addiction, I was taking that much three or four times a day.’
Jackie admitted that her addiction began to take a turn after her divorce from Lee Henderson, whom she married from 2003 to 2018.
The divorce meant she spent less time with daughter Kitty, now 13, causing her to suffer excruciating periods of grief 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 the days I was alone, as a way to numb the loneliness,” she continued.
Many fans were unimpressed when they saw that the radio star had placed her designer handbag on the floor
Chanel’s small classic handbag retails for $17,260
“It was a cowardly way to deal with my pain and find comfort in what was slowly becoming an addiction.”
At the time, in 2018, the Australian government began a crackdown on the purchase of over-the-counter painkillers, putting an end to the purchase of codeine without a prescription.
It wasn’t long before Jackie got her hands on a ‘stronger codeine painkiller’, Panadeine Forte, through a contact and started ‘taking fewer tablets for the same high’.
The former Masked Singer judge began tapering off her use on the days she was due to have her daughter, but her body had already become dependent on the drugs.
“If I went a few hours without it, my hands would start shaking and shaking. I started getting chills and stomach cramps, and nausea and diarrhea came on much quicker than you would think,” Jackie said.
“If I didn’t want to feel dizzy and faint, I needed something to get me through it.”
The never-before-seen photos have been revealed in her new memoir, The Whole Truth, which details the radio star’s extensive drug use.
Elsewhere in her memoir, the radio star describes the lengths she would go to hide her addiction from friends and explained how she would hide and throw away the empty pill packets kept in her home.
“I didn’t want to put them in a trash can… I kept them all in a white plastic bag, and after two weeks I threw my shame in a random trash can on the way to work,” she added.
The media star went on to talk about her rapid weight gain during the peak of her addiction, which she said was caused by drinking “a bottle of wine” or a gin and tonic while taking Stilnox and then ordering UberEats “every day.” day’ during Covid.
One Sunday morning, when Jackie woke up with 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 to tell her that she was ‘arrested’ and could no longer provide her with painkillers.
She confided in her best friend, Gemma O’Neill, who quickly checked Jackie into the Betty Ford Clinic, a two-hour drive from Los Angeles.
Jackie announced her break from the Kyle & Jackie show before she and Gemma flew to California together, with the radio host wearing a cap, glasses and face mask to conceal her identity for the long-haul flight.
