Radio queen Jackie ‘O’ Henderson says she feared for her daughter Kitty’s reaction to her recent public admission of her battle with pill addiction, during a raw interview with Nat Barr on Sunrise. Henderson made the tearful admission on KIIS FM’s The Kyle and Jackie O Show last month, confessing she was “badly addicted,” to painkillers, sleeping pills and alcohol for three years. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Nat Barr’s raw interview with radio star Jackie ‘O’ Henderson.
In November 2022 she checked into rehab for a month-long stay at the Betty Ford Centre in Palm Springs, California. Although the public was unaware of her struggle at the time, Henderson wrote extensively about it in her new memoir, Jackie O: The Whole Truth. On Wednesday, Henderson sat down with Barr, who asked her about her fears of going public with the debilitating addiction, and the effect on her 13-year-old daughter 13.
“I noticed you dedicated the book to Kitty. Was there a point where you thought: ‘I don’t want to write this book because my daughter will have to read all this?’” Barr asked. “That was my number one concern,” Henderson replied, clearly emotional.
“When you write a book, it affects people you’re writing about and it affects, obviously, my daughter’s life. She has to go to school every day. It was really important that we discussed that, and I got a gauge on how she felt.
” At the height of her addiction, Henderson said she was using half tablets to stop h.
