The following article contains references to alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide.
“It was scary,” “Baywatch” star Gena Lee Nolin toldEsquire.
Finally, I just said, ‘Look, this has all got to stop.'"
Thankfully, his relationship with his daughters wasn’t beyond repair.
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Her character is perhaps most memorable for the way she met an unfortunate end.
Sadly, her daughter needed particular medical attention.
“My daughter had had open-heart surgery,” Weatherly toldPopGeeks.
It was a scary time.
Thankfully, Weatherly’s daughter got through the situation and came out the other side.
The proud mom told the outlet that her daughter went on to become an athlete.
She joined the show in Season 3 and changed pop culture forever.
Alexandra Paul credited Anderson’s superstar status to her work ethic.
While she starred on the show, Anderson’s personal life became tabloid fodder.
Her rocky relationship with rocker Tommy Lee, in particular, drove speculation.
Lee was escorted off the set.
you could’t put a monetary number on the amount of pain and suffering it caused."
In 1995, Williams’ character quit the LAPD to open his own detective agency.
He left after the show’s first season.
During Williams' run on “Baywatch,” he experienced a particularly horrific moment during the 1992 L.A. “That wasn’t really a fun time for me.”
Slater revealed toSports Illustratedthat he’d struggled with suicidal ideation.
Additionally, he’s lost friends to suicide.
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available.
She’s snorting cocaine like there’s no tomorrow and it’s catching up to her."
Paul toldEsquirethat she didn’t mind her legacy being so attached to the show.
All of the attention, however, came with some unintended consequences.
In 2013, the TV star took out a restraining order against a woman she said was stalking her.
Her health problems also contributed to intense anxiety about suddenly being a highly scrutinized public figure.
She toldCosmopolitanthat she remembered doubting herself: “Am I good enough for this?
This is so big.
I’m on the cover of four magazines right now.
Am I worthy of this?”
“We had other actors that just couldn’t act,” reasoned creator Doug Schwartz.
However, Electra asserts that she actually quit.
“I had moments where I almost gave up and went home to Cincinnati.
On the show, they called him “Newmie.”
He was also a consultant, advising writers and directors about how the action should be staged believably.
Newman had another duty, too: body double.
“Hasselhoff always had very skinny chicken legs!”
In 2011, he revealed a Parkinson’s diagnosis to LA radio station KPCC-FM (viaE!
“I didn’t get that it was going to be about implants and makeup and hair.”
Two years after leaving “Baywatch,” Eggert was involved in a snowmobile crash.
According to theNational Enquirer, the experience left her with three broken vertebrae.
That’s not the tragedy, though; the tragedy is how she was covered in the press.
“It was my nightly routine,” she toldBrain & Life.
“I didn’t even think about it.
Luckily, Burns hadn’t been swimming alone, or else she might not have made it.
Thankfully, a paramedic friend was there, and he knew not to move her.
“So he saved my life.”
Burns managed to make a full recovery.
These days, she’s an advocate for safe swimming.
Jessie would be proud.
However, Jackson nearly wasn’t cast because producers were interested in another young actor: Leonardo DiCaprio.
He would’ve been on ‘Baywatch.'”
Jackson got the role, however, and he grew up on the show.
He soon began stealing his own money from accounts he wasn’t supposed to access.
Kind of the classic Hollywood teen-idol story.”
Furthermore, it wasn’t his first stabbing.
He now lists himself as a “sober coach” onInstagram.
