Heather Locklear ex says ‘time will tell’ if she’ll overcome struggles

Jack Wagner and Heather Locklear were briefly engaged in 2011. 

And the 58-year-old Melrose Place actor has spoken to Entertainment Tonight to sympathize with his 56-year-old ex-fiancee after her recent legal and mental health woes.

‘We all have our struggles. We all do and some of us handle them in different ways,’ the veteran actor told ET on Friday. 

Wagner added: ‘We either really work at getting well, you know, and it’s just about when you make that decision to do it… Time will tell.’

The pair began dating in real life in 2007 after playing onscreen love interests on Melrose Place, before ultimately splitting in 2011. 

Locklear was arrested on Sunday night after downing a bottle of tequila and crashing her Porsche into a pylon on the grounds of her Californian mansion, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The troubled actress then attacked the cops when they arrived to calm her down and was arrested and booked into Ventura County Jail on police battery charges.

She was released on Monday morning but was rushed to hospital a little over six hours later after allegedly taking an overdose. 

Happier times: The 58-year-old Melrose Place actor has spoken to Entertainment Tonight to sympathize with his 56-year-old ex-fiancee after her recent legal and mental health woes. Seen together in 2009

Rough night: Locklear was arrested on Sunday night after downing a bottle of tequila and crashing her Porsche into a pylon on the grounds of her Californian mansion. Seen here leaving jail this week

Locklear is now believed to be inside a psychiatric ward at Los Angeles’s UCLA medical center and has been placed on a 5250 psychiatric hold, which lasts for up to 14 days and includes a five-day detox as well as mental evaluation.

A source close to the actress told DailyMail.com: ‘The night [of the arrest], she was so hammered. The police came Sunday at six and then left.

‘When they came back at midnight, it was because she tried leaving, she tried driving out in her Porsche. She smashed her Porsche into a pylon in her gate.’

The source said Locklear couldn’t make it off the grounds because ‘she was so wasted.’

Then and now: The troubled actress then attacked the cops when they arrived to calm her down and was arrested and booked into Ventura County Jail on police battery charges. Seen here in 1995 [L] and this week [R]

Ventura County Sheriff’s Office sources confirmed to DailyMail.com that the 911 callout came as a result of a ‘disturbance’ at Locklear’s lavish Thousand Oaks mansion.

Sunday’s arrest comes exactly a week after Locklear was cuffed and taken to hospital after choking her mother Diane, 85, and threatening to shoot herself.

After being released from hospital on Tuesday June 19, the troubled Melrose Place star allegedly checked into a detox center but checked herself out again after completing just two days of a five-day program.

On the way home from the detox center on Sunday morning, she purchased a bottle of tequila which she drank before later attempting to drive off in her Porsche. 

Off the rails: Sunday’s arrest comes exactly a week after Locklear was cuffed and taken to hospital after choking her mother Diane, 85, and threatening to shoot herself