'Grace Under Fire' Star Reveals She Was Homeless At One Point

Once in a while we overlook that renowned artists, on-screen characters, and different superstars in the spotlight don't generally have the most straightforward lives. Some battle as much as we do, possibly more - simply ask performer Brett Butler.

In the vicinity of 1993 and 1998, Butler was on top the world, featuring in the ABC sitcom, "Beauty Under Fire" for a long time. She was even named for a Golden Globe grant twice for her part in the arrangement. However, amid that time, she was battling with significant compulsion, which prompted the show's cancelation in 1998.

"I did everything except for split and needles basically," she said in a meeting with Entertainment Tonight. "I had an assortment of things given to me by specialist, and different things. I'm not doing it to be shy, but rather I'm not going to experience what I did. I did it 'til the wheels fell off."

"I nearly kicked the bucket like Michael Jackson ... I was kicking the bucket of fixation," Butler included. Things got so terrible that makers chose to end the show, persuaded she couldn't work any more.

After the cancelation, the on-screen character moved from her L.A. house to a homestead in Georgia. She was in and out of recovery. In 2011, a Hollywood Reporter article uncovered that when she came up short on cash, she swung to a destitute safe house.

"It's stunning, not only that I didn't pass on, but rather that some individual didn't slaughter me," she said. "The Hollywood experience is so dreamlike in any case, to add medications to it, it resembles you're inside a kaleidoscope. Also, when I began feeling assaulted, it was much more regrettable than I knew."