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In the new "E! True Hollywood Story" about the reality star, Wilkinson admits dabbling in drugs and self-mutilating during her short 24 years of life.
She said she was "about 13" when she had her first experience with cocaine after her friends introduced her to "this white stuff."
"I started feeling pretty good," Wilkinson said. "That was the start of my drug days."
By the time she was 15, Wilkinson was abusing drugs and was at one point "feeling suicidal" and "cutting myself."
"I had so much pain that I just wanted to die," she revealed. "It wasn't that I was trying to die, it was that the pain took away from my pain inside."
After Wilkinson admitted swallowing a "half-dozen or so medications" while at school, her mother, Patti, checked her into a secured psychiatric facility for two weeks.
"It was crazy in that place," the reality star told "THS." "We didn't see daylight. We weren't allowed outside. It was basically a jail, but it was a hospital."
Despite her family members being "scared to death," Wilkinson said the hospitalization "did not change me at all."
"I think it made me worse because in my heart I didn't want to change," she said. "People were forcing me, and that's something that does not work with me."
Wilkinson credits an instance when she almost died from a cocaine overdose as the moment that made her realize she needed to get her life together.
"I was bleeding from every hole in my body and I really thought I was going to die that night," she said. "But you know what, I survived, and I swear it was a couple of days after that that I had an epiphany. I just stopped drugs, stopped smoking cigarettes, stopped everything, and went home."
Admitting that her "devil years" were "very selfish," Wilkinson's attempt to repair her damaged relationship with her family took time.
"My mom did not take me back with open arms," she said. "I basically had to get on my knees and beg. I looked in her eyes [and said] 'I swear on my life, I am done.'"
Kendra & Husband Hank Baskett
After getting involved in sports and working a part-time job, the reformed teen found her way working at the Playboy mansion, where she ultimately met future boyfriend Hugh Hefner.
Now married to NFL star Hank Baskett and caring for their 3-month-old son, Hank IV, Wilkinson told E! Online that she's just "enjoying time" with her new family.
Source: NY Daily News
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