Jackie O Henderson appeared relieved as she left the KIIS FM studios after revealing her previous drug and alcohol dependancy for the primary time stay on her radio present.
The radio host, 49, shared harrowing particulars of her lengthy battle with drug dependancy whereas talking to her co-host Kyle Sandilands on their radio present on Thursday.
She shared that she checked into rehab facility the Betty Ford Clinic in California in November 2022, when she took an prolonged break from The Kyle and Jackie O Present that she beforehand claimed was as a result of lengthy Covid.
After holding her dependancy a secret for over two years, Jackie regarded as if a weight had been lifted off her shoulders as she left the North Sydney studio for her Clovelly mansion on Thursday morning.
She was seen leaving the studio’s underground automotive park in her black Vary Rover alongside her greatest good friend Gemma O’Neill – who she revealed was the one who persuaded her to examine into rehab in 2022.
Jackie hid her eyes behind a pair of black Ray-Ban Wayfarer sun shades after breaking down in tears stay on-air whereas making her dependancy admission simply hours earlier than.
Driving out the studios, Jackie saved it informal in a white Miu Miu T-shirt with purple element across the sleeves and crew neck and waved at onlookers.
She regarded relieved as she flashed a smile whereas heading dwelling alongside her supportive good friend Gemma, who has lengthy recognized of Jackie’s dependancy battle.
Jackie O Henderson appeared relieved as she left the KIIS FM studios after revealing her previous drug and alcohol dependancy for the primary time stay on her radio present
The radio host, 49, admitted she checked into the Betty Ford Clinic in California in November 2022, when she took an prolonged break from The Kyle and Jackie O Present
And Jackie regarded as if a weight had been lifted off her shoulders as she left the North Sydney studio for her Clovelly mansion on Thursday morning
Gemma sported a pair of darkish sun shades and had a stoic expression on her face as she regarded out the window from the passenger seat.
After a pit-stop at Jackie’s Clovelly mansion, the pair then headed out for a chunk to eat.
Their alternative of nosh-spot was the swanky Double Bay eatery Margaret which presents mains from $42 to $340.
Bearing no indicators of the emotion she displayed earlier on-air, Jackie beamed broadly and was even completely happy to wave at onlookers as she exited the automotive park
Jackie hid her eyes behind a pair of black Ray-Ban Wayfarer sun shades after breaking down in tears stay on-air whereas making her dependancy admission simply hours earlier than
She was seen leaving the studio’s automotive park in her black Vary Rover alongside her greatest good friend Gemma O’Neill – who she revealed was the one who persuaded her to examine into rehab in 2022
Jackie reduce fairly the breezy determine for her lunch date, sporting a white Miu Miu graphic T-Shirt with a purple trim on the crew neck and sleeves.
Whereas the shirt gave off an effortlessly informal vibe, it might have set Jackie again an eyebrow elevating $890.
Jackie additionally hid her svelte body underneath a pair of dishevelled Dion Lee harness flight low rise pants, that may have value the radio queen $990.
After a pit-stop at Jackie’s Clovelly mansion, the pair then headed out for a chunk to eat at swanky Double bay eatery Margaret
Jackie reduce fairly the breezy determine for her lunch date, sporting a white Miu Miu graphic T-Shirt with a purple trim on the crew neck and sleeves
Whereas the shirt gave off an effortlessly informal vibe, it might have set Jackie again an eyebrow elevating $890.
Carrying the identical sun shades as she did in her automotive journey, Jackie additionally accessorised with a big gentle brown suede bag and a pair of white strappy heels.
She completed her ‘lunch look’ with a pair of black and silver Fendi hoop earrings.
Jackie had revealed on-air that Gemma had been instrumental into getting Jackie into rehab.
Jackie emotionally credited Gemma with saving her life by persuading her to examine into the Betty Ford Clinic.
Jackie additionally hid her svelte body underneath a pair of dishevelled Dion Lee harness flight low rise pants, that may have value the radio queen $990
She recalled: ‘It got here to a head and [Gemma] was such a fantastic good friend. She stated ”I am sorry Jackie, however you are not going to taper off this, it is going to by no means work. I am checking you into rehab on the finish of the week and we’re going”.
‘I stated ”do not be ridiculous, Gemma like that’s such overkill. I haven’t got an issue that unhealthy that I must go to Betty Ford”.’
‘And he or she stated no, we’re going and we’re doing it and I thank God she did that,’ Jackie admitted.
‘Thank God there was somebody on the market like her as a result of I imagine she saved my life.’
She stated they caught an evening flight out of Australia and boarded on the ‘final second’ to keep away from being seen after which jetted over to LA, the place Gemma stayed along with her for 2 days earlier than she checked into the Betty Ford Clinic.
Identified for treating Hollywood stars together with Keith City, Robert Downey Jr. and Lindsay Lohan, Betty Ford prices wherever from $45,000 to $90,000 AUD for a month-long keep, relying on this system.
Carrying the identical sun shades as she did in her automotive journey, Jackie additionally accessorised with a big gentle brown suede bag and a pair of white strappy heels
She completed her ‘lunch look’ with a pair of black and silver Fendi hoop earrings
She stated Gemma accompanied her to LA and helped her to get on the airplane ‘undetected’ as she mentioned holding her dependancy a secret for 2 ‘lengthy and painful years’.
On the time, Kyle – who was unaware of Jackie’s drug dependancy – instructed their listeners Jackie was taking a break to ‘concentrate on her well being’ after contracting Covid.
As a substitute, 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 capsules and alcohol.
On the peak of her dependancy, Jackie took round 10-12 Stilnox/Zolpidem sleeping capsules and 24 Panadeine Forte a day and would take them whereas consuming alcohol.
Stilnox customers are warned to not drink alcohol as it could possibly sluggish the respiratory system and make it tough to get up.
Jackie stated Betty Ford instructed her to not change ‘something’ about her utilization earlier than arriving because it might be ‘harmful’ so she was nonetheless taking the capsules the day she flew out to the US.
Jackie additionally stated she went ‘backwards and forwards’ deciding whether or not to share the information publicly earlier than detailing the extent of her dependancy in her upcoming memoir The Entire Reality, slated for launch on October 29.
Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has emotionally revealed she went to rehab for drug and alcohol dependancy on the Kyle and Jackie O Present on Thursday
‘I used to be scared to inform folks and say this out loud, I do know folks will take a look at me otherwise and love me,’ she instructed listeners on The Kyle and Jackie O Present.
‘I used to be in a extremely, actually darkish place.’
‘That is what the dependancy to your mind, it adjustments your mind-set, it does not need you to get assist, it is so highly effective,’ she continued by tears.
‘It takes a all-time low second to chop your self off.’
She stated her struggles first started greater than 15 years in the past when she was prescribed a robust opioid painkiller for endometriosis – a illness by which tissue much like the liner of the uterus grows outdoors the uterus, inflicting extreme ache.
‘I received prescribed that and I discovered myself on the time taking it greater than I wanted and I recognised that this is likely to be a little bit of an issue, so I ended on the time,’ she stated.
Nonetheless, Jackie then went again to the remedy after her 2018 cut up from UK photographer Lee Henderson, who she shares her daughter Kitty, 13, with.
She checked into the Betty Ford Clinic in California in November 2022, when she took an prolonged break from The Kyle and Jackie O Present (she is pictured in October 2022 with Kyle)
On the time, Kyle instructed their listeners Jackie was taking a break to ‘concentrate on her well being’ after contracting Covid. She is pictured simply weeks earlier than she went to rehab on October 2022 on the Australian Industrial Radio Awards along with her daughter Kitty
As a substitute, she was secretly flown out of Australia to be handled for 28 days on the world well-known Betty Ford rehab facility (pictured) for a dependancy to painkillers, sleeping capsules and alcohol
‘I went again to it as a approach to type of go to some completely happy please, and it was a means of escaping and it was so the mistaken factor to do,’ she confessed.
Jackie stated she began taking a couple of codeine ‘right here and there’ and one Stilnox at night time with a glass of wine, which she described as a ‘blackout’ state of affairs.
‘You possibly can nonetheless be awake and don’t know what is going on on,’ Jackie shared.
‘It is such as you’re type of functioning however you haven’t any reminiscence.’
Nonetheless, what actually ‘kickstarted’ Jackie’s dependancy was isolating at dwelling in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, when she stated she was ‘struggling’ and felt ‘so unhappy’.
‘The dosage began to creep up an increasing number of and it received excessive and I used to be averaging about 24 Panadeine Forte a day after which I used to be averaging about 10 to 12 Stilnox,’ she shared.
‘Somebody was watching over me as a result of I do not understand how I wakened most days with that type of dosage.’
The radio host, 49, made the tearful revelation whereas talking to her co-host Kyle Sandilands on their KIIS FM radio present on Thursday morning
Jackie (pictured in July 2023) admitted she lied by ‘omission’ when she made her 2022 announcement that her absence from the present was as a result of she was affected by Covid
Jackie stated none of her KIIS FM colleagues had been even conscious of the explanation behind her extended absence from her radio present on the time, when she stated she was stepping away to battle lengthy Covid.
Studying out an extract from her memoir’s prologue, she shared: ‘The entire staff needs me effectively, I am certain they’re interested by my short-term depart of absence, however none of them actually is aware of why I am stepping again.
‘But it surely needs to be this manner.’
Her co-host Kyle sounded shocked as he revealed he had ‘no thought’ about her dependancy battle whereas studying about it for the primary time stay on-air.
‘You are simply so anti-drug, that is the shock of it, you’ve by no means been the social gathering lady, you had been by no means that,’ he stated.
Jackie stated her struggles first started 15 years in the past when she was prescribed a painkiller for endometriosis, which she began taking once more after her 2018 cut up from Lee Henderson (above)
On the peak of her dependancy, she took round 10-12 Stilnox sleeping capsules and 24 Panadeine Forte a day. She is pictured with Kyle on the ACRAs in October 2022, days earlier than she checked into rehab
‘I did not know you had been a giant drinker, I do know you want a wine from time to time. I really feel embarrassed that I sit right here on daily basis of my life and had no clue.’
‘I am in shock, I am in shock and feeling like a s**t good friend for not realising,’ he added.
Jackie broke down in tears in the course of the emotional radio phase and stated it wasn’t as a result of she is ‘ashamed’ however as a result of it felt ‘scary’ to lastly share the information publicly.
Of her determination to talk out, Jackie additionally revealed she requested permission from her daughter Kitty to share her story and praised her for treating her with ‘compassion’.
‘I could not be extra pleased with my daughter, the best way she has been about it has been zero judgement, simply compassionate and assist,’ she shared.
She stated Kitty had ‘no thought’ she was battling dependancy on the time as she detailed a current dialog that they had when Jackie opened up about her struggles.
Jackie stated Kitty knew she wished to publicly discuss her dependancy battle to cut back the ‘stigma’ round drug dependence and ‘normalise’ it for others.
‘I stated to Kitty, I really feel there are such a lot of folks on the market who’ve completely different sorts of addictions which are caught on this place they cannot get out of,’ she went on.
Jackie stated she warned Kitty that her schoolmates may attempt to discuss to her about it, however her daughter bravely stated she did not need ‘judgemental’ folks in her life.
The presenter bravely apologised to listeners for hiding her dependancy struggles earlier than and revealed she will likely be marking two years of sobriety in a 3 weeks time.
Jackie is pictured in a publish shared to Instagram by her KIIS FM colleague Pete Deppeler (proper in an orange prime) in April 2022
‘I need to apologise to our listeners and everybody in my life the place I have never kind of been forthcoming with this, I simply wanted to focus on that half first, that restoration for the primary 12 months notably,’ she stated.
Simply weeks earlier than Jackie’s public assertion, Kyle spoke about Jackie’s mysterious two-month absence from their KIIS FM present in November 2022.
Not understanding about her dependancy battle, Kylie jokingly claimed earlier this month that Jackie had really taken time without work to concentrate on her look, referencing her weight reduction on the time.
The radio hosts had been talking to Abbie Chatfield stay on-air about ‘slut-shaming’ feedback Kyle made on the air throughout Jackie’s absence.
‘If Jackie wasn’t away worrying about her personal picture, then this is able to by no means have occurred,’ Kyle stated.
On the time, Jackie introduced she was stepping down from her KIIS radio present for well being causes, however has now revealed she was at Betty Ford.
Jackie, who had been coughing and sounding unwell on air for weeks, stated on the time she had been affected by poor well being since contracting Covid-19 a couple of months prior and wanted correct relaxation to get well.
‘I have been not very effectively ever since I’ve had Covid… I have been battling this fatigue,’ she instructed listeners.
‘I simply should take a while off,’ she added. ‘I am ending the present as we speak. As in now.’
She reassured listeners she wasn’t ‘dying’ and stated her physician instructed her ‘if I hold doing this, it will get a lot worse and I’ve taken his recommendation’.
She later opened up concerning the poor state of her psychological and bodily well being.
Jackie’s co-host Kyle shared his assist along with her throughout her on-air assertion and appeared to haven’t been beforehand privy to her rehab stint
‘It was laborious to take that point off. I used to be pushing by however I ought to have taken it off earlier,’ she instructed Information.com.au in January 2023.
‘I simply couldn’t push myself any additional. I am glad I took care of my well being first as a result of I really feel like 1,000,000 instances higher.’
She stated a tropical vacation in Fiji along with her daughter Kitty noticed her develop a wholesome consuming and sleeping routine, which helped along with her return to work in January 2023.
‘I began to get into completely different sorts of train like tennis and water aerobics. It’s the most superb train and works each muscle in your physique,’ she stated.
Jackie added it was essential for everybody to recognise their limits and take a break when wanted to stop the danger of burn out.
‘No matter place you are in, I promise you will really feel higher about your self once you begin making steps in the direction of that more healthy way of life.’
Betty Ford is a nonprofit residential therapy clinic for folks battling substance dependence situated in Rancho Mirage, California.
It has been a favorite rehab facility for a lot of Hollywood stars over time, together with Elizabeth Taylor, Gary Busey, Johnny Money, Lindsay Lohan and Kelsey Grammer.
David Hasselhoff, Mickey Mantle, Liza Minnelli, Ozzy Osbourne, Keith City, Chevy Chase, Jerry Lee Lewis and Anna Nicole Smith are additionally among the many well-known names to have attended.
The clinic was based by former First Girl Betty Ford in 1982 and is located in Rancho Mirage, close to Palm Springs in California.
It’s world well-known for its robust angle in the direction of rehabilitation in addition to its strict regime.
It presents inpatient, outpatient and residential day therapy for alcohol and drug dependancy and has 100 inpatient beds accessible on their website.
In 2014, the Betty Ford Heart merged with Hazelden Basis to kind the Hazelden Betty Ford Basis, and it opened an extra outpatient therapy clinic in West Los Angeles the next 12 months.
Betty Ford is a residential rehab for folks battling substance dependence in Rancho Mirage, California and has been visited by Hollywood stars together with Johnny Money, Lindsay Lohan and Kelsey Grammer
