Overview
- Phillips, who spoke to Fox News Digital on Sunday, said she and co-star Valerie Bertinelli drove to her house during lunch breaks to swim, drink wine, and snort cocaine and that they also used cocaine in dressing rooms on set.
- She said she was the one who "got caught," a detail linked in past coverage to her firing from the CBS sitcom and to the long-term consequences she has described in memoirs.
- Phillips emphasized that Bertinelli has publicly acknowledged past cocaine use and said Bertinelli did not develop the same level of addiction that Phillips experienced.
- Phillips has been open about her recovery in books such as High on Arrival and Hopeful Healing and has worked in addiction treatment, including roles at Breathe Life Healing Centers.
- Reporters note these remarks fit a broader picture of widespread substance use in 1970s–80s Hollywood and that outlets republished the Fox interview with no new public rebuttal from Bertinelli reported.