We often try to keep things light here at The Hollywood Gossip.
But we don’t even have a joke to make about the following story.
We have no snarky comments at all.
We just sincerely hope Heather Locklear finds the professional help she so clearly needs.
The veteran actress was arrested on Sunday night after a family member called 911 from Locklear’s home because Locklear was allegedly drunk and beligerant.
According to TMZ, the former Melrose Place, Dynasty and Spin City star then punched a responding police officer who was trying to separate her from an unnamed relative.
Paramedics evnetually arrived as well — and, while being placed on a gurney, Locklear is accusing of kicking an EMT.
The incidents took place just before midnight and Locklear was prompted booked for two counts of misdemeanor battery upon an officer and emergency personnel.
Authorities confirm that the star was taken to a hospital near her residence get checked out and then was taken to jail, where she was booked.
She’s being held on $ 20,000 bail.
This would obviously be a disturbing story based on the facts listed above alone.
But the alleged attacks took place less than one week after Locklear was hospitalized after another drunken assault, this time one against her parents.
Reports at that time indicated that the actress choked her mother and hit her father.
She also threatened to find a gun and kill herself, which is why she was placed under psychiatric evaluation.
And even that was not some kind of isolated encounter/run-in with the law.
The sadly troubled actress previously pleaded not guilty to four counts of battery on an officer and one count of resisting arrest in April, following her February arrest in which she apparently told officers:
“If you ever come back to my house I will shoot you.”
This arrest caused Locklear to check into a rehabilitation, with sources close to her saying that she was “spiraling out of control.”
Said former Melrose Place co-star Josie Bissett to Entertainment Tonight in the wake of last weekend’s suicide threat:
“[It’s] just sad. You know, it’s just heartbreaking. We just pray for her and hope she gets through this time.”
And Jack Wagner, who also appeared on this Fox soap opera opposite Locklear and also dated her for a number of years, added in this same interview:
“I just will stand by what I have said for a while and that is that we all have our struggles.
“We all do and some of us handle them in different ways.
“We either really work at getting well, you know, and it’s just about when you make that decision to do it…
“I love Heather and I know Josie feels the same way, so nothing but loving thoughts and prayers for her and her family and her daughter, Ava.”
We echo this sentiment.