This story blows away all those “Faces of Meth” ads

Jael Strauss was on Cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model  five years ago looking gorgeous, and now her face is ravaged by a six-year meth, cocaine, and painkiller addiction (that’s right, she was using while on the show.) She is unrecognizable now, and her family staged an intervention on Dr. Phil.

FALLING APART WITH DR.PHIL

Consider this your 

“Don’t do drugs” 

PSA for the day.

(Jael’s mother initially believes her daughter is addicted to Vicodin, Oxycontin, 

and possibly meth.  Jael agrees to rehab)

A former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant who we haven’t seen in a long time
is headed back to our television sets, but this time the reason is not so pleasant. Jael Strauss, who participated in the 8th cycle of Tyra Banks’ model competition,
is set to appear on an intervention-style episode of “Dr. Phil” tomorrow when her family confronts her about her addiction to methamphetamine.

Where are the models of ANTM now?

America’s Next Top Model Winner CariDee English 

Describes How Sucky It Is To Win ANTM

FACES OF METH

Stay off the pipe!
Officials said containment of the blaze, which quickly lapped up a hillside during the height of Friday's rush-hour commute and prompted temporary closure of the Getty Center, remained at 40%, a figure reached by Friday night.

Kumari Fulbright

Model Kumari Fulbright...  kidnapping and torturing her ex-boyfriend.  She had been going to law school.  Meth is a devastating drug in our communities worldwide. Meth before and after.       p h o t o   a l b u m      MUG OF THE WEEK  *  KUMARI

Horrorphile:  The Meth Epidemic

A former UA law school student and beauty queen Kumari Fulbright was sentenced to two years in prison plus six years’ probation Thursday for her part in the kidnapping and torture of her former boyfriend.

Kumari Fulbright, 28, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and aggravated assault as part of a plea agreement that stipulated the prison sentence in the case, which also involved another ex-boyfriend.

Kumari Fulbright was dating Joshua Conway in the fall of 2007 when she asked him to sell jewelry she was given by her former boyfriend, Robert Ergonis, according to prosecutors Michael Jette and Kim Ortiz.

When Ergonis came back into Fulbright’s life, she lied and told Ergonis that Conway had stolen and sold the jewelry.

Fulbright lured Conway to her apartment on Dec. 8, 2007, and Ergonis and David Radde jumped him, the prosecutors said. Another man, Larry Hammond, helped to detain him. Conway was beaten, cut with a knife and held at gunpoint for hours until he was able to escape.

Fulbright, Radde and Hammond entered deals with the state and agreed to testify against Ergonis at his trial last month. Fulbright told jurors that the plan was only for Ergonis to talk Conway into telling them where the jewelry was.

Ergonis was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated robbery. Jurors acquitted him on a second count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, choosing instead to convict him of a less serious assault charge. He’s scheduled to be sentenced next week.

In Pima County Superior Court, Judge Michael Miller sentenced Fulbright Thursday. Miller ordered Fulbright to pay $15,000 in restitution.

He also agreed to allow Fulbright to move to Florida when she is released from prison.