Baywatch star Jeremy Jackson’s ex-wife Loni Willison has been spotted in Los Angeles foraging around in a dumpster in a quest for food.
The former glamorous swimsuit model has been living in homeless encampments in California for almost seven years.
She was recently spotted in Santa Monica looking dishevelled as she pushed along a shopping cart through the back streets.
Willison is best known for her role as Kira Michaels on the hit TV series Expose.
She was married to Baywatch actor Jeremy Jackson, but their stormy relationship ended in 2014 after Jackson allegedly tried to strangle Willison during a drunken brawl.
Since their parting, Willison has reportedly struggled with addiction and mental health problems. She took something of a downward turn and can frequently be seen roaming the streets, pushing an overflowing shopping cart, and searching through dumpsters in search of food.
The images, acquired exclusively by a newspaper outlet, are a stark difference from Willison’s once glamorous life.
Only eight years ago, she was living the Hollywood dream, modelling and appearing on the red carpet at glittering occasions alongside TV hunk Jeremy Jackson, whom she married in 2012, but after developing a drug habit, she’s fallen on tough times and has been sleeping rough for the last six years in Venice, where the homelessness problem has reached a crisis point in current years.
Willison was seen on the streets for the first time in two years in October 2020, having been homeless since about 2016.
She’s reportedly suffered from an addiction to crystal meth and various mental health problems.
Soon after she was discovered she told a newspaper outlet that she was doing just fine and had not had any contact with Jackson in recent years.
She said that she hadn’t spoken to Jeremy and that she didn’t want to speak to her friends and that she was just doing fine and that she didn’t want anyone to help her.
Loni was married to Jeremy from 2012 until their tumultuous divorce in 2014. She once accused the actor of attempting to strangle her in a fierce rage.
She insisted that she could live on her own and that she had everything she needed right there in Venice due to the area’s affluent nature.
She said that she hasn’t got a cell phone, but that she does have food and a place to sleep and that she gets money here and there and there’s food in the bins and near the stores.
However, we shouldn’t be shaming this woman, we should just let her be because you just never know what’s around the corner, and some homeless people do manage to crawl out of the abyss, and one thing is extremely transparent, she’s a survivor.
But it looks like the paparazzi are making money and newspaper outlets are buying the pictures to humiliate her. Did they at least buy her a meal and a drink after exploiting her without her consent?
Remember every homeless person had a normal life at one point! And in reality, every person is just one paycheck away from being homeless, and people should remember that.
Tons of people battle addiction for years and it’s heartache all around, but they will get clean either when they’ve had enough or die, and there’s nothing anyone can do about that, but hopefully she will have the strength to pull herself out of her situation.
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