Heather Locklear is back on the booze and lost 40lbs on Ozempic

After years of sobriety and over a dozen stints in rehab, Heather Locklear is back on the booze, sources tell DailyMail.com. 

‘Heather is drinking,’ a source said. ‘The family is very worried. Everyone feels helpless. Richie [Sambora], her family, especially her daughter Ava who loves her so much.’

This comes after DailyMail.com published photos that showed Locklear acting erratically – balancing on a ledge, sprinting across the street and talking to herself while outside an office building in Malibu last week. 

The insider also revealed that Locklear, whose battles with mental health issues and addiction are well-documented, is taking popular diabetes medication turned weight loss miracle Ozempic and has lost 40lbs. 

‘Tequila has always been her drink. She can’t stay away from it. She’s also on Ozempic and obsesses over her weight. She’s lost 40lbs,’ they said. 

DailyMail.com spotted Locklear last week displaying erratic behavior as she was seen attempting to balance on a ledge and talking to herself 

Video shows the actress looking distressed as she sat at the top of a flight of steps reading from her personal journal

Locklear’s fall from grace kicked off with a DUI after she and ex husband Richie Sambora split in 2006.

The next decade was filled with hospitalizations, several arrests and stints in rehab.  

In February 2018 she was arrested for domestic violence and for battery against a police officer who reported to an incident at her mansion in Thousand Oaks, California.

Locklear is seen in a police booking photo after her arrest on two counts of misdemeanor battery on a police officer and EMT in June 2018 

In June of that year, she was arrested again for allegedly verbally and physically abusing an ambulance EMT who responded to her home following a call for help.

Then in November 2018, she was placed on a 5150 hold – where patients can be hospitalized for 72 hours if it is determined they are a danger to themselves or others – after her therapist determined that she was experiencing a mental breakdown.

In August 2019, Locklear pleaded no contest to eight misdemeanor counts: five counts of battery on a peace officer, one count of battery on an emergency medical personnel, and two counts of resisting, obstructing or delaying a peace officer.

These involved two separate incidents when cops were called to her Thousand Oaks home after complaints of fights with fiancé Chris Heisser. She reportedly bit his nose during the altercation. 

She was ordered to complete a 30-day residential rehab stay in a mental health facility with a 120-day jail sentence suspended.  

The insider now says that it was the lack of harsh punishment that has led Locklear to fall back down a dark road. 

‘Heather got off so easy with no probation or accountability after beating up cops and then threatening EMT ambulance drivers. 

‘The no accountability has allowed her to continue to hide out on top of her mountain estate and drink her tequila body into a much larger unhappier figure,’ they said. 

Heather’s fall from grace kicked off with a DUI after she and Sambora split in 2006. She’s pictured being pulled over and arrested in 2008 after taking a breathalyzer test 

‘Heather’s also on Ozempic and obsesses over her weight. She’s lost 40lbs,’ the source said. She’s pictured with Heisser in 2021 looking bloated 

The actress has had her own experiences with substance abuse and arrests, but had been thought to be on the straight and narrow since 2019

Her fiancé Chris Heisser waited in the car for about an hour, giving Locklear space before she hopped in his SUV and they drove off

The source says that Locklear’s behavior has been ‘unfair’ to her former motocross driver fiancé Heisser because ‘he is battling alcohol too.’ Heather, Ava and Chris are pictured together in a social media snap 

Locklear’s fall from grace kicked off with a DUI after she and ex husband Richie Sambora split in 2006. The couple are pictured with daughter Ava 

The source says that Locklear’s behavior has been ‘unfair’ to her former motocross driver fiancé Heisser because ‘he is battling alcohol too.’ 

‘[Chris] has to drive her for mandatory errands and try to sustain his career while lying to family and friends consistently hiding her alcohol and drug problems.’

‘[The couple] told friends she has been drinking again months ago and would return to rehab to no avail.’ 

The insider says it has been particularly tough for Locklear’s 25-year-old daughter Ava, who reportedly had a front-row seat to her mother’s addictions.  

It’s been Ava’s steadfast support of her mother that was said to have helped the star get sober in 2019.

Last week DailyMail.com spotted Locklear being dropped off by a man believed to be her fiancé at about 1pm for an undisclosed appointment that lasted an hour.

When she emerged from the building, she kept Heisser waiting in his car and was seen making her way along the ledge of the building and sprinting across the street.

Locklear, who wore army fatigue sweatpants and an off-the-shoulder T-shirt, sat at the top of a staircase for a while where she read from a journal and began talking to herself while looking distressed. 

 Locklear looked nervous as she steadied herself by holding on to pillars in order to avoid a steep drop into the parking lot and dumpster below

Video shows the actress looking bewildered as she sat at the top of the steps reading from her personal journal. 

At one point she is seen pointing angrily to something written in the diary and gesticulating in an animated fashion before pushing it firmly back into her purse. 

She sat for a lengthy period of self-reflection at the top of the stairs. 

During her balancing act, Locklear – who People reported in 2019 had been to rehab more than 20 times – looked nervous as she steadied herself by holding on to pillars in order to avoid a steep drop into the parking lot and dumpster below.

Eventually, after well over an hour by herself, Locklear ran over to Heisser, 61, who had waited patiently in the car. 

He appeared happy to give her the space she wanted and the pair drove off together in his SUV.