{"id":18479,"date":"2025-07-24T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18479\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:16:12","slug":"jackie-o-henderson-reveals-her-drug-addiction-started-when-she-was-prescribed-endone-for-her-endometriosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18479\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie O Henderson reveals her drug addiction started when she was prescribed Endone for her endometriosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

O\ufeffn Thursday morning Jackie O Henderson<\/a> revealed the truth behind her painkiller addiction.<\/p>\n

Back in November, the radio host revealed she had privately battled with a drug addiction\ufeff<\/a>, admitting that she “was in a really, really dark place”.<\/p>\n

Now, Henderson has shared how it all started.<\/p>\n

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\"DrugJackie O Henderson has opened up about how her drug addiction started. (KIIS FM)<\/p>\n

“I got addicted because I got prescribed Endone [an oxycodone]. That’s why,” she told co-host Kyle Sandilands and guest Dr Dam Hay during The Kyle & Jackie O Show.<\/p>\n

The conversation came about during the show’s regular Dr KIIS segment after she asked Dr Hay \ufeffwhat the “strongest” painkiller he would subscribe is.<\/p>\n

After sharing that she was prescribed Endone, Sandilands was shocked asking if she had “conned” doctors into it.<\/p>\n

“T\ufeffhat was different… that’s a dodgy thing,” she said.<\/p>\n

“But originally, I was prescribed for a true pain that I was experiencing because I was going to the hospital every month with my endometriosis.<\/p>\n

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“It just got so out of control, I had to go to the hospital to get morphine. And then so they prescribed the Endone as a way to manage it.”<\/p>\n

Henderson said that the doctors had warned her about how addictive the painkiller can be, adding that at first she had thought, “I’ll be fine”.<\/p>\n

“It is dangerous,” she explained.<\/p>\n

\"JackieShe shared she was first prescribed Endone for her endometriosis. (Instagram\/Jackie O)<\/p>\n

“When they handed me the drug they said, it’s so addictive. Be really careful. And it really, really is.<\/p>\n

“I took those pills and thought, I’ll be fine. And I realised you’re not fine because they are so addictive.”<\/p>\n

Back in October the radio star had shared that she had been taking painkillers, sleeping pills and alcohol in a three-year addiction battle that ended with a month-long stay in a rehabilitation centre in November 2022.<\/p>\n

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\"JackieHenderson said doctors warned her about how addictive the drug can be. (Instagram \/ Kyle and Jackie O)<\/p>\n

She shared that only a handful of people knew and that even Sandilands had been kept in the dark.<\/p>\n

\ufeff\ufeff”Where do you draw the line?” Henderson said of her decision to keep her health battle private.<\/p>\n

“I just didn’t want anyone to know until I had at least gotten a year or more of sobriety under my belt.”\ufeff<\/p>\n

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