{"id":442088,"date":"2023-11-06T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/?p=442088"},"modified":"2023-11-06T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:45:05","slug":"playboy-models-urine-turned-to-acid-and-ate-away-at-her-skin-after-downing-vodka-every-day-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/playboy-models-urine-turned-to-acid-and-ate-away-at-her-skin-after-downing-vodka-every-day-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Playboy model's urine turned to acid and ate away at her skin after downing vodka every day | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A FORMER Playboy model and actress said she downed so much vodka that her urine turned to acid and started eating away at her skin. <\/p>\n

Jessica Landon, 37, moved to LA when she was 19 with dreams of becoming an actress and seemed to be living the dream. <\/p>\n


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Originally from Rancho Cucamonga, California, she forged a successful modelling and acting career where she appeared on Nickelodeon, NBC, Comedy Central and featured in\u00a0Playboy<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Perfect 10.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the time, Jessica regularly hung out and partied at the Playboy mansion with Hugh Hefner. <\/p>\n

But behind her glitzy lifestyle, Jessica hid a spiralling alcohol addiction, which slowly took over her life. <\/p>\n

By the time she was 26, she was a "twenty-four hour a day vodka drinker" and would always ensure she had a water bottle filled with vodka with her. <\/p>\n

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At rock bottom – homeless after spending time in prison – Jessica found someone who said she could sleep on their floor.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI lay on his floor and nearly drank myself to death. I was incapable of getting up to use the restroom because I was too weak and atrophied, so I laid there urinating and defecating on myself for over a month in one spot."<\/p>\n

The acidity of Jessica's urine ate away at her skin and she was admitted to hospital in January 2014 with a blood staph infection and her failing organs.<\/p>\n

She stayed for over a month to safely detox and has been sober since January 3, 2014, now working as a recovery coach helping people to get sober.<\/p>\n

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Jessica also wrote a memoir, Human on Fire,\u00a0<\/em>detailing her life and recovery from alcoholism, and she and her partner Matthew had their first child together in December 2019.<\/p>\n

'I had created my own prison'<\/h2>\n

Jessica says her self-destructive behaviour and alcoholism stemmed from being molested by a babysitter when she was just five years old, which lead to her to harbour "a lot of guilt and shame". <\/p>\n

She described thinking she was living the dream while "modelling and acting and hanging out a lot at the Playboy mansion" in LA. <\/p>\n

"However, there was always an emptiness, and now looking back I see that I was perpetually trying to fill that void with things like alcohol, love, food," Jessica recalled. <\/p>\n

"I was an \u2018in the closet\u2019 drinker – sometimes literally – from the very start, rarely drinking in public or at parties but rather surreptitiously. <\/p>\n

"Liquor was the magic medication I had been searching for, the only thing that could relieve me from my anxiety, panic and shame I felt on the inside."<\/p>\n

Jessica said she ended up in her "own prison" feeling like she had no way out or anyone to speak to.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time I was 26 years old I was a 24-hour-a-day vodka drinker. I\u2019d pass out at night and wake up in a panic, shaking violently, so I kept vodka in a water bottle next<\/span> to my bed to chug if I accidentally slept too long and hit withdrawals. <\/p>\n

"I was vomiting blood on a regular basis. It became a living hell.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that point I knew I couldn\u2019t continue living like this or I would die but I also knew I would die trying to come off of it alone without a medical detox. <\/p>\n

"I had created my own prison. Nobody in my life knew how bad it was, I was afraid to get honest about the severity of my drinking so I kept it a secret for a very long time."<\/p>\n

Jessica went through nine treatment and rehab centres and managed to cling to sobriety for eight months, but she sadly relapsed in early 2013. <\/p>\n

She said: "I met a woman that let me stay in her attic temporarily, I stayed in the attic drinking 24 hours a day. <\/p>\n

"I had become so weak and frail from living on strictly vodka for so long I ended up falling over the railing of a staircase and landed on my head, resulting in a massive brain haemorrhage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI slowly started to become paralysed on one side, my face started drooping and my speech was slurred. <\/p>\n

"When I went to the hospital, they did a CT scan and discovered a haemorrhage the size of an oblong baseball in the centre of my brain. They needed to surgically drain it before there was permanent damage."<\/p>\n

Jessica had to be detoxed from the alcohol before undergoing surgery and started experiencing seizures five days in. <\/p>\n

After undergoing emergency brain surgery, she was transferred to a rehab facility and "recovered miraculously".<\/p>\n

But just two months later, Jessica sadly relapsed again and this time her return to alcohol was even more life-threatening than before. <\/p>\n

She\u2019d spent a month in prison for accruing several warrants, including for driving under the influence and stealing vodka from grocery stores.<\/p>\n

This was when she ended up almost drinking herself to death on a stranger's floor, saying: \u201cThe acid from my urine was eating away my skin on my hips and tailbone which ultimately caused a blood staph infection.<\/p>\n

"I knew I was dying rapidly and became desperate. I called an ex and begged for help. By the grace of God he showed up the next morning with an ambulance."<\/p>\n

'The memory of pain stayed fresh in my mind'<\/h2>\n

This was the wake up call Jessica needed to stay sober. <\/p>\n

The recovery coach said: "It took a long time to physically recover, which I think was a blessing. <\/p>\n

"The memory of pain stayed fresh in my mind and I did not want to go back to where I was. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy family is just so grateful I survived and am able to impact the lives of others with my experiences."<\/p>\n

Jessica now uses her past to help guide others through alcohol addiction and thinks that alcohol consumption shouldn\u2019t be glamourised.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelping others is profoundly rewarding and it creates a sense of belonging which I think is healthy for the soul," Jessica says.<\/p>\n

"I think sharing our stories with each other is very powerful and healing. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlcohol is ubiquitous and yet it kills more people annually than all other drugs combined. To me it is a true socio-cultural malignancy.<\/p>\n

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"The way it is advertised and glorified everywhere should be banned or at least limited."<\/p>\n

She shared a message of encouragement for people struggling with addiction: "No matter how bad it is or how low you think you are, it is always possible to turn it all around. If I can get sober anyone can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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