Jackie ‘O’ Henderson made headlines in 2023 when she offered her Sydney ‘dream house’ for $13million.
On the time, the 49-year-old radio star defined that paparazzi had influenced her resolution to dump the lavish japanese suburbs property.
However in her new memoir The Complete Reality, Jackie reveals a darker twist to the sale, saying she linked the house to her dependancy to alcohol and prescription drugs.
Jackie mentioned it was when she was residing within the lavish Woollahra house that she began abusing alcohol.
She additionally turned hooked on prescription treatment, together with codeine.
‘On my own, at night time particularly, it was hell on earth,’ she explains within the ebook.
Purchased as a ‘ceaselessly house’ in June 2022 for $ 11 million, Jackie describes the four-bedroom, three-bathroom luxurious unfold as a ‘fortress’ in her new tome.
‘On one facet the timber went miles up — it felt like being in a rainforest, fully reduce off from the world — whereas on the opposite facet it was like concrete ramparts with a gate,’ she writes.
Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has revealed the darkish and disturbing cause she determined to promote her flashy ‘ceaselessly house’ in Sydney’s japanese suburbs
Jackie ‘O’ Henderson made headlines in 2023 when she offered her ‘dream house’ in Woollahra for $13million
‘I used to be shocked it didn’t have a moat. Inside, this palace was chilly marble and stone. It was like residing inside a Westfield procuring centre — chilly and soulless.’
By November of 2022, Jackie had fled the home to the US for a 28-day keep in well-known rehab clinic, the Betty Ford Middle.
Her buddy Gemma O’Neill, in the meantime, began to organise a sale for what was purported to be Jackie’s ‘ceaselessly house’.
In her new memoir The Complete Reality, Jackie reveals a darker twist to the sale, saying she linked the house to her dependancy to alcohol and prescription drugs
‘I by no means wished to return to the home in Woollahra,’ the radio star writes within the ebook.
‘…Gemma helped me put it up available on the market privately in order that nobody would know I used to be on this state of upheaval.’
Jackie initially purchased the Woollahra property after promoting a stunning mansion in Vaucluse she had constructed along with her ex-husband, Lee Henderson.
The previous couple paid $ 2.7million for the property within the sought-after neighbourhood in 2012.
The pair then constructed what Jackie calls in her ebook a ‘Father of the Bride Home’ – a reference to a 1950 Hollywood movie that celebrates up-scale suburbia.
Jackie initially purchased the Woollahra property after promoting a stunning mansion in Vaucluse she had constructed along with her ex husband, Lee Henderson. The previous couple paid $ 2.7million for the property within the sought-after neighbourhood in 2012. (Pictured)
The palatial house, which options 5 bedrooms, three loos and a white picket fence, was offered in 2020 for $6.5 million.
Earlier than forking out on the Woollahra pad, Jackie lived in a Bondi rental – however complained about being harassed by paparazzi.
In March this 12 months, it was revealed Jackie splurged $13.25million on a three-storey oceanfront home in Clovelly at an open public sale.
The house is ready again from the highway, providing the privateness she did not have on the slim streets of her Woollahra deal with.
The palatial house, which options 5 bedrooms, three loos, and a white picket fence, was offered in 2020 for $6.5 million. (Pictured)
Earlier this 12 months, Jackie teased followers with particulars about how she plans to switch the two-storey house into her dream pad.
Options embrace huge open-plan residing areas with ocean views, a brand new built-in pool, sculptured gardens and palm timber.
It comes after the svelte magnificence shared her private story of drug and alcohol dependancy for the primary time with listeners throughout The Kyle and Jackie O Present final month.
Combating again tears, Jackie revealed she checked into the Betty Ford Middle in California in November 2022, when she took an prolonged break from The Kyle and Jackie O Present, which she beforehand claimed was on account of lengthy Covid.
In March this 12 months, it was revealed Jackie splurged $13.25million on a three-storey oceanfront home in Clovelly at an open public sale
Identified for treating Hollywood stars together with Keith City, Robert Downey Jr. and Lindsay Lohan, the Betty Ford Middle prices anyplace from $45,000 to $90,000 AUD for a month-long keep, relying on this system.
Jackie revealed her long-time buddy Gemma had been instrumental into getting Jackie into rehab.
She recalled: ‘It got here to a head and [Gemma] was such an amazing buddy. She mentioned ”I am sorry Jackie, however you are not going to taper off this, it would by no means work. I am checking you into rehab on the finish of the week, and we’re going”.
‘I mentioned, ”Do not be ridiculous, Gemma. That’s such overkill. I haven’t got an issue that unhealthy that I have to go to Betty Ford”.’
‘And he or she mentioned no, we’re going, and we’re doing it, and I thank God she did that,’ Jackie added.
‘Thank God there was somebody on the market like her as a result of I imagine she saved my life.’
She mentioned they caught an evening flight out of Australia and boarded on the ‘final second’ to keep away from being seen.
Then, they jetted over to LA, the place Gemma stayed along with her for 2 days earlier than she checked into the Betty Ford Middle.
She mentioned Gemma accompanied her to LA and helped her to get on the airplane ‘undetected’ as she mentioned conserving her dependancy a secret for 2 ‘lengthy and painful years’.
On the time, Kyle – who was unaware of Jackie’s drug dependancy – informed their listeners Jackie was taking a break to ‘deal with her well being’ after contracting Covid.
As an alternative, she was secretly flown out of Australia to be handled for 28 days on the world well-known rehab facility for an dependancy to painkillers, sleeping drugs and alcohol.
On the peak of her dependancy, Jackie took round 10-12 Stilnox/Zolpidem sleeping drugs and 24 Panadeine Forte a day and would take them whereas consuming alcohol.
Stilnox customers are warned to not drink alcohol as it could actually gradual the respiratory system and make it tough to get up.
Jackie mentioned Betty Ford informed her to not change ‘something’ about her utilization earlier than arriving because it may very well be ‘harmful’ so she was nonetheless taking the drugs the day she flew out to the US.
She added that she went ‘forwards and backwards’ in deciding whether or not to share the information publicly earlier than detailing the extent of her dependancy in her memoir, The Complete Reality.
