![]() “I feel like those six to seven years of being on TV was because God put me in a position to show how deadly and overbearing addiction can be, and to share the outcome of someone who can get through it.Jason Wahler is an American reality star and social media personality. I’ve overcome my over-inflated ego and underestimated sense of self-worth and I’ve been able to work through that now. Wahler is newly engaged and plans to marry fiancée Ashley Slack in October. “I get to help people on a daily basis I get to see people change their lives.” His duties include offering support to clients and helping them adjust to treatment. Since his stint on “Celebrity Rehab,” Wahler has been sober for three years and now works at Northbound, an Orange County addiction treatment facility, where he oversees client services. “I was just going on that show not to necessarily get help but to have a career change and show the public how I really am,” Wahler said, “but obviously I ended up getting a lot of help from Dr. He says that he appeared on the show as “just a background prop.” “I don’t know how it didn’t.”įrom the ages 17 to 23, he was in and out of nine treatment centers and even appeared on VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. My thought process was completely destroyed.”īesides alcoholism, he battled depression and attempted suicide multiple times over the years. “To any person on the outside, they would have thought getting arrested four times within six months was crazy, but at that particular point, I was like, ‘Whatever.’ And now looking back, I realize that was absolutely absurd. Over the next few years, Wahler had multiple run-ins with the law, many of them drinking-related. “Being really young and having the connections I had and the availability of everything, there was no way I wanted to stop,” he said. As a result, his parents sent him to a wilderness retreat program, which he attended only to appease them. Wahler was arrested for being a minor in possession of alcohol at the age of 17. “It seemed like I was living the dream which eventually became my biggest nightmare.” “I was basically living the dream of any 18-year-old, being paid to party and travel the world at no expense,” he said. It was in Los Angeles where Wahler’s alcoholism began to spiral out of control. At the age of 18, Wahler moved to Los Angeles, where he continued his storyline on “The Hills.” After the conclusion of the show’s second season, MTV commissioned a spinoff. The show received moderately favorable reviews from critics, and millions of viewers tuned in every night to witness the antics of Wahler and his friends. The day after an episode aired, I walked outside and people started running up to me. “‘Laguna Beach’ turned into such a large success and went a totally different route,” said Wahler, 26. Wahler made his first appearance in season two and established a reputation as hard-partying womanizer. Cast members’ interpersonal relationships, dramas, and fights were captured on camera for the entire world to see. “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County” aired on MTV for three years and documented the personal lives of a group of students attending Laguna Beach High School. Jason Wahler’s story starts off simple enough: he grew up in Laguna Beach, attended high school there, and became famous in the most unconventional way. By: Jacqueline Liu | Orange County Register
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