Shannen Doherty’s ex-husband Ashley Hamilton hospitalized after ‘apparent overdose’
Actor and singer Ashley Hamilton, ex-husband of the late Shannen Doherty, was reportedly hospitalized last Thursday with an apparent overdose.
It was stated that 51-year-old Hamilton, whose parents are actor George Hamilton and model Alana Stewart, is in the process of recovery and his condition is stable in the hospital.
Insiders claimed he was discovered last week at an Airbnb in the Los Angeles area suffering from a health condition linked to an unidentified substance. TMZ.
He has been candid about his struggle with addiction, saying that by the time he was 22, he had made ‘half a dozen arrests’ and attended ’32 rehabs’.
Doherty and Hamilton exchanged vows in 1993 after two weeks of dating when she was 19 and he was 22, but the relationship collapsed five months later.
Hamilton, who shares nine-year-old daughter Willow with ex-girlfriend Renee Karalian, is currently battling a rare mucosal cancer linked to HPV and shared that he sent “paperwork” to a Swiss clinic that offers assisted suicide weeks ago.
The Daily Mail has contacted Hamilton’s representative for comment.
Actor and singer Ashley Hamilton, ex-husband of the late Shannen Doherty, was reportedly hospitalized after an apparent overdose last Thursday; pictured 2013
Doherty and Hamilton exchanged vows in 1993 after two weeks of dating, when he was 19 and she was 22, but the relationship collapsed five months later; pictured 1993
In addition to having famous parents, Hamilton was Rod Stewart’s stepson for part of his childhood, from 1979 to 1984.
She explained that her substance use began in her teenage years, when she struggled with anorexia and bulimia, and that she “used drugs and alcohol to control it.” People.
He was at the height of television stardom when he met Shannen Doherty on Beverly Hills, 90210, and they were married two weeks after they met.
In January 2024, months before his death from cancer at age 53, he painted a bleak picture of their relationship while speaking with fellow Beverly Hills, 90210 cast member Jason Priestley on the podcast Let’s Be Clear.
‘I had a really terrible marriage, and things were coming up in that marriage that made it really difficult for me to get to work on time,’ she said.
Explaining that she was occasionally afraid to leave the house for fear of her husband taking drugs, she admitted that her late arrival to set ‘became a huge problem for the rest of you, as it should be.’
He said: ‘This was nobody’s responsibility but mine, but I wish I had sat down and looked at me and said: ‘Listen, the outcome will be this; “You’re going to be fired, and none of us want to put up with that any longer.”
He and Hamilton separated in 1994, five months after they were married, and Hamilton subsequently entered into another short-lived marriage to Playboy model Angie Everhart.
He has been candid about his struggle with addiction, saying that by the time he was 22, he had made ‘half a dozen arrests’ and attended ’32 rehabs’.
In 1988, when she was 13, Hamilton was photographed with George Hamilton and his mother, Alana Stewart, who married and divorced Rod Stewart.
This past December, she shared that she had experienced “two failed marriages, two failed careers, 32 rehabs, five overdoses, three flat lines, two comas, paralysis on the left side of my body, brain surgery, spleen surgery, of course, staph infection in the heart, gangrene in the arms, shootouts from drug deals gone bad, of course, and a half-dozen arrests, all at the age of 22.” Soft White Underbelly.
A decade ago, his father, George Hamilton, broke down in tears as he discussed his son’s addiction to the blended family’s reality show, the Stewarts & Hamiltons.
‘I’m so proud of you. “We almost lost you four times in your life,” George told his son when he was sober.
Ashley Hamilton said in her confessional on the same episode: ‘I had a hard time with drugs and alcohol, it was so stupid. ‘I’ve ruined everything but I’ve got a second chance and I’ll give it everything I’ve got.’
Hamilton with his parents, Alana Stewart and George Hamilton, and his brother, George Hamilton Jr., at the 2015 premiere of a documentary about Evel Knievel. Photographed with.
According to TMZ, he was arrested in August 2024 and accused of waving a pocket knife at a Beverly Hills hotel employee who asked him to leave the property after waking him up on a lobby couch around 5 a.m.
She revealed during an interview on the podcast last year that she was battling a rare mucosal HPV-related cancer. Punk Rock Sober.
As a result of the follow-up, the treatment of the disease continued Soft White Underbelly This time, he appears alongside a death doula in the interview published three weeks ago.
Hamilton described her harrowing experience with the disease and noted that she had no idea her daughter, now nine, had cancer.
During this conversation, he explained that he had ‘sent all my papers to Switzerland to a ‘clinic’ where patients undergo ‘assisted suicide’.
“What I don’t want to do is die in a motel with a needle in my neck, leave that stain on my daughter, and I don’t want to leave that stain on the people around me,” Hamilton said. I don’t want to do this. ‘As easy as it is for me to do this, I don’t want to do this to people.’
