Stardom was not all glitz and glamour for Jason Wahler, and a lot of his inner battles worsened. Wahler stated he previously used substances before joining the cast of “Laguna Beach.” However, the MTV alum admitted to the “Behind the Velvet Rope” podcast that the show and sudden rise in fame “added fuel to the fire” due to “being paid to party and travel the world.” He continued, “It was one of those things that you get so caught up into it and there was no one you could really talk to, or relate to, for advice or suggestions.”
It wasn’t until a session with Dr. Drew Pinski on “Celebrity Rehab” in 2010 (via E! News), that Wahler embarked on the journey to living a sober lifestyle with the help of his parents. “My dad in a therapy session just looked at me, and I had never seen him breakdown except for when his mom died, and he just looked across and he goes, ‘Look, Jason, I don’t know what we’re going to do… our marriage is suffering. There is just no intimacy. There is nothing there, we’re like two planks of wood waiting for the phone call that you’re dead,'” he later disclosed.
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It wasn’t only his parents who hoped the star would recover from addiction. His wife, Ashley Slack, whom he married in October 2013, hoped rehab would be a success for the future of their marriage.
