A lot of time has passed and many things have changed for the image of Jeremy Jacksonwho was Hobie, the son of David Hasselhoff in Baywatch during the 1990s. The former actor, who later participated in reality shows, has participated in a recently released docuseries in the United States to talk about how precocious stardom led to addiction problems at an early age.
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After Baywatch: Moment in the Sunfrom Hulu, serves as a place for Jackson to share disturbing details about his time in the entertainment world, which he collects PeopleIt wasn’t until his final year on the show that he started using drugs, to the point where Hasselhoff tried to warn him of the dangers he was taking with that attitude. “I remember him asking me if I was smoking weed. And I was like, ‘God, do they think I’m smoking? I couldn’t tell them the truth. What would they think? When you haven’t slept for five days and you’ve been smoking crystal“For someone to come, look you in the eyes and ask if you’re okay was the worst thing that could happen to you.”
However, as he admits, going through puberty on a set like that Baywatch It was “painful.” In fact, in the television documentary he recounts inappropriate behavior at a young age. For example, he admits that he would sneak into the trailers of the cast members to “take their dirty bathing suits” to smell them.
A history full of scandals and arrests
The scandals followed Jackson over the years. Not only the addictions to alcohol, methamphetamines and steroids, which he revealed on television. In 2017, Jackson went to prison to serve a 90-day sentence for having stabbed a woman in Los Angeles in 2015. Also in 2015, in April, he was arrested for another stabbingin this case a man, and was also accused of assault and threats against his ex-partner, the former fitness model Lonnie Willison.
But his attitudes were also the subject of public condemnation after his participation in the British GH VIP, in January of that same year: the organization decided to expel him from the house after having undressed a companion.
“I was spiralling down. My life was slipping through my fingers like sand,” he says. Now, with his addictions behind him and focused on getting a new life back on track as a personal trainer, this documentary serves as a way for him to publicly atone for his sins, with the support of several former castmates.
Among them, Nicole Eggert: The actress, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, is part of the production of this docuseries, which follows the trail of Jackson and other stars of the remembered series, such as Pamela Anderson y Carmen Electra.
