Why this photo of Jackie ‘O’ Henderson sitting outside of rehab before she checks in for drug and alcohol addiction is infuriating Aussies

A photo of Jackie ‘O’ Henderson taken before her rehab stint for drug and alcohol addiction in 2022 has infuriated her Australian fans.

In the image, the radio star, 49, is seen smoking her last cigarette while awaiting the results of a Covid test before checking in the Betty Ford Clinic.

Jackie’s Chanel handbag lay face down next to her as she lit the cigarette while sitting in the gutter of a car park outside the admissions office.

However, many fans weren’t impressed to see the radio star had placed her designer handbag, which retails for $17,260, on the floor.

‘The Chanel handbag on the floor as she sits on the curb too, your heart bleeds,’ one person commented.

‘Is that her little Chanel handbag on the road…,’ another fan questioned.

The never-before-seen picture has been unveiled in her new memoir, The Whole Truth, which chronicles the radio star’s extensive drug use.

In the memoir, Jackie explains she started taking ‘codeine pills with a glass of wine’ in a bid to escape reality.

‘It was casual at first, until it wasn’t. Truth be told, while over the years when times got tough, I’d go to the chemist and grab myself some Nurofen Plus to take the edge off, now it was different,’ she wrote.

‘To experience any kind of high, I had been taking roughly ten Nurofen Plus tablets at once for years. Now that I was deeper into my addiction, I was taking that much three or four times a day.’

Jackie admitted her addiction began taking a turn for the worse following her divorce from Lee Henderson, to whom she married from 2003 until 2018.

The divorce saw her spending less time with daughter Kitty, now 13, which made her suffer with excruciating bouts of sadness and loss.

‘In an attempt to cope with the loneliness and guilt I was feeling, I made another bad decision. I began taking sleeping pills — Stilnox — on the days I was alone, as a way to numb the loneliness,’ she continued.

Many fans were less than impressed to see the radio star had placed her designer handbag on the floor

The small Chanel classic handbag retails for $17,260

‘It was a coward’s way of dealing with my pain, finding comfort in what was slowly becoming an addiction.’

At the time, in 2018, the Australian government began cracking down on purchasing over-the-counter painkillers — putting a stop to codeine being purchased without a prescription.

It wasn’t long before Jackie managed to get her hands on a ‘stronger codeine painkiller’, Panadeine Forte, through a contact and began taking ‘fewer tablets for the same high’.

The former Masked Singer judge began tapering her use on days she would have her daughter, but her body had already become reliant on the drugs.

‘If I went several hours without them, my hands would begin to tremble and shake. I’d get chills and stomach cramps, and nausea and diarrhoea would set in far quicker than you’d imagine,’ Jackie said.

‘If I didn’t want to feel dizzy and faint, I needed something to get me through.’

The never-before-seen pictures have been unveiled in her new memoir, The Whole Truth, which chronicles the radio star’s extensive drug use 

Elsewhere in her memoir, the radio star details the great lengths she would go to conceal her addiction from friends and explained how she would hide and dispose of the empty pill packets kept in her home.

‘I didn’t want to put them in a bin… I kept them all in a white plastic bag instead, and then at the end of two weeks I would dump my disgrace into a random bin on the way to work,’ she added.

The media star went on to open up about her rapid weight gain during the peak of her addiction, which she says was brought on by drinking ‘a bottle of wine’ or a gin and tonic, all while taking Stilnox, then ordering UberEats ‘every day’ during Covid.

One Sunday morning, where Jackie woke up to remnants of her UberEats order from the night before on the floor beside her bed along with a half-empty glass of gin and tonic and cigarettes in an ashtray, her supplier called to tell her they’d been ‘busted’ and could no longer supply her with painkillers.

She confided in her best friend, Gemma O’Neill, who quickly checked Jackie into the Betty Ford Clinic, located two hours from Los Angeles.

Jackie announced her break from the Kyle & Jackie show before she and Gemma flew to California together, with the radio host wearing a cap, glasses and a face mask to conceal her identity for the long-haul flight.