Brooke Mueller in 2014.Photo: JB Lacroix/WireImage
Brooke Muelleris seeking professional help amid her ongoing battle with substance abuse.
The actress “has voluntarily checked herself into a trauma center on the East Coast and is under the care of professionals,” a rep for the star tells PEOPLE.
“Like millions of others battling this disease will tell you, staying sober is a daily challenge,” the rep says, “but Brooke is committed to getting better and working hard to overcome this and get well.”
Mueller sought help asPage Six, which first reported the news, released footage of her preparing to smoke what appears to be crystal meth inside of a van.
“Just how am I gonna wake up tomorrow, and who’s gonna drive me?” she asks the person filming her. “That’s why it had to be you guys. That’s why I thought you guys were doing it. I’m not gonna be able to wake up with — this is what you don’t get. I’m not gonna be able to get on the plane.”
As she turns to face the camera, she asks, “What are you doing right now?”
Last month,a source told PEOPLEthat Mueller, who has long battled substance abuse, had relapsed.
In July, the 41-year-old actress and ex-wife ofCharlie Sheenwas the subject of anotherPage Sixreport that claimed she had been seen with “bags of drugs” while in the Hamptons over the weekend, though the source told PEOPLE “most of the story is highly exaggerated.”
On Thursday,Page Sixalso released alleged audio of Mueller asking someone during her July Hamptons trip for “cocaine and meth, crystal and coke, and, if it’s even possible, it would have to be the tar, black tar.”
At the time, Mueller declined to comment on the situation.
“Her family wants her to go to rehab but can’t force her,” the source told PEOPLE in July of her relapse. “If it were up to family, she would go back.”
The actress sharestwins Bob and Max, 10, with ex-husband Sheen.
“Both boys live with Brooke in Beverly Hills,” the source explained. “When Brooke is traveling, her mother and her mother’s husband take care of the twins together in the same house.”
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The source said that one of her sons was with Mueller’s mother and attends day camp in California, while the other recently returned from a trip to London with Mueller’s brother and his family.
A source said Sheen does see the children, too.
Mueller and Sheenfiled for divorcein 2010 followinghis arrest for domestic violencein 2009.
Sheen’s other ex-wife,Denise Richards,briefly held temporary custodyof Bob and Max while Mueller was in rehab in 2013. Mueller regained full custody in 2014. (Last summer, Sheen claimed that he isunable to pay Mueller child supportbecause he’s “been unable to find steady work, and [has] been blacklisted from many aspects of the entertainment industry.”)
Mueller most recentlychecked out of inpatient rehabin January 2017.
source: people.com
