Reality star Kendra Wilkinson opens up about her teenage drug problem and a stint in a psychiatric ward on the latest installment of E!’s celebrity documentary series True Hollywood Story.
Wilkinson struggled with drug addiction as a teenager and was briefly locked up for “feeling suicidal,” the ex-Girl Next Door and new mom, 24, has revealed. In the interview, airing Wednesday night at 10 PM on E!, Kendra says her “drug days” began at 13 when a friend offered her cocaine. But the time she was a sophomore in high school, she was using drugs “every day, every minute” and would often cut herself. After swallowing “a half dozen or so” pills at school at age 15, her mother checked her in a psychiatric facility.
“It was crazy in that place,” Wilkinson says in the expose, obtained by Us Weekly. “We didn’t see daylight. We weren’t allowed outside. It was basically a jail, but it was a hospital. I think it made me worse because in my heart I didn’t want to change. People were forcing me, and that’s something that does not work with me.”