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September 27, 2001 - The Globe reports an insider revealed to them she's been 'shooting up' liquid cocaine telling them, "Long-term cocaine addicts sometimes resort to injecting the drug to give them a new high. It's a tragedy. Once, she was the most beautiful girl in the business. Now, she looks like a total junkie heading for disaster."

September 27, 2001 - A heartbreaking mug shot of Yasmine Bleeth is in this week's National Enquirer as the disheveled star has dark bags under her eyes, blotchy skin, and hair that is a mess as a stunned insider told the tabloid, "Yasmine looked like hell... like a crack addict just off the street. When the police approached her vehicle, Yasmine told the officers that she had stornted cocaine within the last hour." A friend of Bleeth admits, "Her cocaine use has gotten really serious. Yasmine has finally hit rock bottom."

September 25, 2001 - The Chicago Sun Times Bill Zwecker reports Yasmine Bleeth's Hollywood career may be over after her repeated cocaine abuse. An top TV exec told him, "It's not like she has Robert Downey Jr.'s talent to fall back on--and look how hard it is for him to get work these days." Zwecker says Bleeth has struggled with drugs for a long time, has thrown temper tantrums because of it, and has been subject to gossip in Hollywood.

September 23, 2001 - The New York Post reports Yasmine Bleeth was on a 36-hour coke binge with boyfriend Paul Cerrito before she was busted in Romulus last week. The paper also reports the two met at Bleeth's drug rehab Promises in Malibu. Cerrito's mother runs a strip club in Warren, Michigan... Real winner, Yaz =(

September 15, 2001 - Heartbreaking news for Yasmine Bleeth fans as the actress was arrested after crashing her car into a median Wednesday night. Yasmine was visiting her boyfriend's parents and failed sobriety tests after the crash. Yasmine's rental car had four syringes in her purse, and a substance in at least one of the syringes tested positive for cocaine according to police. Yasmine was released after a 12 hour jail stay but could face criminal drug charges. For a video clip on the arrest as more information, click here. As we'd reported earlier, Yasmine had sought help for her drug problem but apparently has relapsed... And if report of her being pregnant are true, then this truly is more disgraceful than it already is.

August 21, 2001 - E! Online reports Carmen Electra and Yasmine Bleeth are among those who have signed on for Baywatch Blast, a two-hour TV movie that will reunite many of the show's original stars and will be broadcast on Fox. Pamela Anderson has yet to commit to the project.

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