While some have compassion for Bleeth in light of this, others have been less than kind.
To the point where she’s so out of the business now.
But Bleeth was also honest about her substance use, notably in an essay she penned forGlamourin February 2003.
But I’m happy to do what I have to do."
On cocaine, I didn’t think about the problems.
I had no pain."
The difficulties of this caused Bleeth to start questioning her belief in love.
“I was tired of feeling hurt.
I was losing faith in love.
I just wanted to feel good again.
And I knew an easy way to get that feeling.”
For Bleeth, this meant falling back on cocaine.
“It was like ordering Chinese food.
I made one phone call, and they delivered it to my front door,” Bleeth revealed.
However, the two would eventually get back together.
But in some ways, this is unsurprising.
In her essay, she also detailed how drugs had taken a toll on her body.
A doctor discovered that her drug use had led to gangrene.
While she would attempt to become sober after learning this, her habit would resume just six weeks later.
I’m a very lucky woman."
“[H]e took one look at me and started to cry.
He said I looked like a shell of myself,” she recalled.
She noted how her appearance had changed, including losing weight and appearing swollen.
“By the end of 1999, I’d stopped looking like myself,” she admitted.
“I’m a fleshy girl, very curvy and round, but I’d lost my softness.
My friends said I looked like an alien, that my eyes were bulging out of my face.
“And at the time, when I knew her, there was none of that going on.”
In 2020, she caught the media’s attention again when she was photographedwalking her dog in Southern California.
Her name also made headlines in 2017 whenTMZclaimed her husband intended to sue Disney for causing him injury.
This also included activities like rearranging her linen closet, poring over photo albums, and dancing to music.
“But mostly,” Bleeth wrote, “I’d shop on the internet.
I’d order from Saks Fifth Avenue or Neiman Marcus or Bluefly.
It was the biggest joke I bought all these beautiful things, but I never went out.
Shopping was instant gratification.
Just like the drugs.”
As a result of the incident, Bleeth was arrested for cocaine possession, which made headlines.
Though the couple had attended rehab together, it wasn’t long before Bleeth relapsed afterward.
She commented on this in her Glamour essay, noting that she “lost control.”
Drugs become your best friend, your lover, your parents they become everything to you.
Bleeth and Cerrito are still married more than two decades later.
“Yasmine basically retired,” Berk said.
I know she gets offers that she turns down.
If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available.
Visit theSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration websiteor contact SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
