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Heather Locklear has been “struggling” along with her sobriety after beforehand battling substance abuse points.
“She has been consuming and informed buddies over a month in the past she needed to return to rehab,” a supply near Locklear, 61, and her fiancé, Chris Heisser, completely tells Us Weekly. “However she isn’t in rehab.”
Whereas the insider shares that Locklear “hasn’t left her dwelling” not too long ago “apart from a couple of sightings,” the Melrose Place alum made headlines earlier this week when she was photographed wanting distraught and strolling alongside the ledge of a constructing in Malibu, California.
“It was very unusual conduct to make certain, sort of surprising,” an eyewitness shared with Us concerning the June 29 incident. “She appeared to be speaking to herself, 100%. God is aware of what was happening. At one level she ran throughout the street making all these humorous faces, then she went again and sat by herself. And why she was strolling alongside the wall with flip-flops on? That was a critically steep drop. If she’d fallen it could have been critically harmful.”
Locklear has sought remedy a number of instances as she’s struggled along with her sobriety and psychological well being. She accomplished her most up-to-date stint in rehab in October 2019 and was ordered by a court docket to proceed looking for remedy via an outpatient program. She was additionally positioned on a 5150 psychiatric maintain in November 2018 after experiences that she assaulted Heisser, 61.
Locklear has additionally confronted a number of run-ins with the legislation. She was arrested twice in 2018 for battering cops, which nearly despatched her to jail for 120 days. She as an alternative reached a plea deal that required her to finish a remedy program and stay on probation for 3 years.
Whereas Locklear seemingly celebrated one 12 months of sobriety in April 2020 — “Hugs will come later! 1 12 months sober right this moment!!!” she wrote by way of Instagram on the time — the supply tells Us that her issues have been ongoing.
“Mates say she could by no means have stop consuming after a decide ordered unsupervised probation in 2019,” the insider says, including, “She didn’t have any oversight so nobody is aware of if she ever stopped consuming, even again then.”
Locklear has additionally confronted private losses because of her substance abuse points. Two extra sources inform Us that the actress has fallen out with many buddies over current years.
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“Heather’s family members are critically nervous about her and hoping this serves as a wake-up name to get assist,” a fourth supply provides. “Everybody’s making an attempt to resolve precisely what’s happening – not simply on the day these images have been taken however generally, as a result of it’s very clear one thing’s not proper.”
Locklear, nevertheless, does have household in her nook. That features 25-year-old daughter Ava, whom the Locklear shares with ex-husband Richie Sambora. An insider informed Us completely in 2018 that the mother-daughter duo have “all the time been extremely shut” amid all of Locklear’s private woes. (Locklear and Sambora, 63, have been married from 1994 to 2007.)
Ava, for her half, echoed the sentiment one 12 months later, telling Wingman journal in February 2019: “I’d like to comply with in my mom’s footsteps.”
Locklear and Heisser, in the meantime, have been highschool sweethearts within the ’70s. They rekindled their romance in 2017, however their relationship has not been with out its tough patches. After police responded to Locklear’s dwelling a number of instances in 2018 attributable to fights between the pair, she was arrested for home violence. Us later confirmed that the twosome known as it quits in 2019. Nevertheless, they later reunited and introduced their engagement in June 2020.