Yasmine Bleeth eventually decided to get help and entered a now-defunct rehabilitation facility named Promises, per Entertainment Weekly. In an essay for Glamour in 2003, she wrote that it was there that she met her husband, Paul Cerrito, who was the main catalyst in her decision to get and stay sober. “They say you shouldn’t get into any relationship within the first year of sobriety… But what can I say? We fell in love immediately,” she penned. “And because of him, I’m sober today. Nothing used to make me feel as good as cocaine until I fell in love. Now the feeling I have when I’m with Paul is better than how I felt on cocaine” (via Baywatch Luver Proboard).
It’s unclear whether it was a deliberate choice to quit acting for good, but Bleeth had not been part of the scene since tying the knot with Cerrito in 2002. As noted on IMDb, her last acting credit was the straight-to-TV film “Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding,” which was so far off the original series in terms of quality that you can’t exactly call it a fan favorite.
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Still, it’s probably for the best. In her Glamour essay, Bleeth said that, while it’s still a struggle to veer away from drugs, she re-acquainted herself with things that make her happy. “I’m enjoying the simple things again: being social, sleeping in, curling up in a big down comforter,” she wrote (via Baywatch Luver Proboard).Â
