Yasmine Bleeth: My battle with drugs (or, how my nose almost fell off - WOD Alert!)

Yahoo! News ^ | 1.23.03

[hole_n_one]

[Trajan88]

Keep up the tough fight Ms. Bleeth... I'm pulling for you.


Trajan88

[SandfleaCSC]

Three months later, she made her first call to a dealer. "It was like ordering Chinese food," she says. "I made one phone call and they delivered it to my front door."

I may be out of "the scene" for a long time, but I find it difficult to believe that a girl who looks like that actually bought her own drugs.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Keep up the tough fight Ms. Bleeth... I'm pulling for you.

Careful. You could go blind...:-)...JFK

[martin_fierro]

From thesmokinggun.com:

Former "Baywatch" star Yasmine Bleeth was arrested in September 2001 by Michigan police and charged with cocaine possession. The actress pleaded guilty to one criminal count and was sentenced in January 2002 to two years probation and 100 hours of community service.

[hole_n_one]

3 words......

OMG!

[martin_fierro]

[gracex7]

thank you for showing the reality, and not just the "Hollywood Glamour", although if you could put that picture next to hole_in_one's it would say even more!!

[philman_36]

"But once I started doing coke, I lost control, and it took over my life again."
Read carefully and notice the reversal
I started...I lost control...it took over my life...
Coke is an inanimate object with no inherent "power" or abilities. "It" didn't climb up her nose on its own.

Another of those fitting "images" for public consumption.
Yes, it's all about "image". Right, Dane?

[lainie]

[philman_36]

BTW...this is another one of those "public confessions" so highly esteemed by reeducation advocates and suchlike. You should feel some remorse for not even realizing that you're playing right into the hands of those who value such things. Then again maybe you know exactly what you're doing.
Brainwashing, reeducation, coercive persuasion, thought reform, mind control...whatever, it's all pretty much the same. Somebody trying to condition people to think and act a certain way.
Cocaine is bad/evil and here is an example. This will happen to you if you use it.
You're a practitioner of those arts with articles like this one.
She lost control...she had emotional problems and tried to resolve them with drugs...she did it to herself and she couldn't hold her liquor (a euphemism in this instance) and barfed all over her shoes.
What happened to her doesn't happen to everyone.

[FastCoyote]

Wait a minute. Aren't drugs illegal? So how did this happen to this poor girl, when the WOD is everywhere?

[philman_36]

Yeah, those cosmetics people do great work don't they. A whole new look in less than thirty minutes.
Do you look different without your makeup on? (if you wear any that is)

[lainie]

What I love is that the husband was her boyfriend -- and was with her the night she drove her rental car off a Michigan road in a coke-induced frenzy. She met him in rehab. So romantic!

If she truly had her head on straight she'd be keeping to herself now.

[philman_36]

What I love...
What I love is that she had prior dealings with cocaine, or other drugs, as evidenced by her statement...
"I just wanted to feel good again," she confides. "And I knew an easy way to get that feeling."
If she hadn't done drugs of some kind before her breakup how would she know an easy way to get that feel good feeling?
This story is merely a hype piece and the suckerfish are going to fall for it hook, line and sinker!
Do you wear makeup and if so do you look different without it?

[lainie]

I don't really wear any. But I think people look different with/without makeup on.. by definition.

[philman_36]

I don't really wear any.
YB wasn't wearing any either in her mug shot from the looks of things.
But I think people look different with/without makeup on.. by definition.
Quite a difference it makes too.

[goldstategop]

I think the drugs changed her and her near death experience made her take a second look at what she was doing. At least she's married now and after all this is the country of second chances. If any one deserves one more round in this life its Yasmine Bleeth. Anyway, I think looks are overrated and for a man there's a lot more to a woman than how she does her face and if she's more obssessed about looks than a guy, she's not someone a man would want to go out with. The most beautiful women in the world shine from the inside and that's where a compliment to their beauty is truly sincere.

[Eagle Eye]

Why is this a WoD alert?

This is about an idiot that messed with drugs and got addicted. Oh, yeah, that can't happen since drugs are illegal and there is strict federal/state/county/municipal/school crossing guard zero-tolerance enforcement.

Maybe she should sue the government for not preventing her from using coke? Surely they sould have been more intrusive, watched her more carefully, monitored her finances, surveilled her acquaintences, and intervened before she got messed up.

What's that you say? It's not the government's role to baby sit citizens? Oh.....