Generous Heather Locklear, 62, hands out cash to panhandler as she and her fiancé Chris Heisser drive home in Los Angeles
She’s had her share of troubles and Heather Locklear proved she is only too happy to help someone else down on their luck.
The Melrose Place alum rolled down her window and handed a few banknotes over as she and fiancé Chris Heisser were driving in her Los Angeles neighborhood this week to help a panhandler who was begging for money.
She also gave him a few supportive words as the couple stopped at traffic lights.
Video showed her looking bewildered as she sat at the top of the steps reading from her personal journal and talking to herself.
At one point she was seen pointing angrily at something written in the diary and gesticulating wildly before pushing it firmly back into her purse.
She sat for a lengthy period of self-reflection at the top of the stairs before running over to Heisser, who was waiting for her in their car.
A source confirmed to DailyMail.com that she had relapsed and was back drinking her favorite tequila and
But since that alarming incident Heather has been seen looking healthy – and that is how she appeared when she handed over the cash to the homeless man.
Locklear and Heisser, also 62, first dated in the late 1970s when they were both students at Newbury Park High School.
But they lost contact for 40 years and Heather went on to marry rockers Tommy Lee from 1986-1993 and Richie Sambora from 1994-2007, with whom she has a daughter, Ava, now 26.
Ava got engaged to Tyler Farrar, her boyfriend of four years, last weekend.
It’s been the steadfast support of her lover and daughter that helped Heather get over her problems that were first reported after she was stopped for suspected DUI shortly after her split from Bon Jovi guitarist Sambora.
Although tests confirmed her blood alcohol level was under the legal limit, authorities believed that prescription medication she was taking for her anxiety and depression had caused her erratic driving.
Over the next decade, police were called to Heather’s home on multiple occasions, and she would rack up eight different charges after allegedly attacking law enforcement officials who were trying to calm her down.
She ultimately pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to three years’ probation.
In February 2018, she was arrested for domestic violence and battery against a police officer after she allegedly kicked three law enforcement officials while they were trying to calm her down during an argument between her and Heisser.
Then in April the following year she crashed her Porsche and after being convicted of nine misdemeanors the court ordered her to rehab.
Locklear was a TV staple during the 1980s and 90s. She first hit it big as Sammy Jo, Blake Carrington’s daughter-in-law on Dynasty. She then went on to play Officer Stacy Sheridan on the police drama T.J. Hooker before she landed her signature role as manipulative Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place.
She was later brought in to the sitcom Spin City as the campaign manager for Barry Bostwick’s New York Mayor character as he decided to run for Senator.
She was nominated for six Golden Globes – four for Melrose Place and two for Spin City – without winning any.
