The decision to seek treatment comes just days before her interview with Dr. Phil McGraw is scheduled to air. In a sneak preview that debuted last week, the former child actress star admitted to struggling with her sobriety, reports E! News.
"I poured a drink of vodka, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?'" she told Phil. "I'm beating myself up over this." Things turn from emotional to heated, however, when the host delves deeper into Kim's issues.
"Are you living a lie telling everybody, ‘I've been sober for three years?'" he asks before adding, "You are drunk in a bar fighting with a cop. That is not good mothering."
With her kids nearby watching the interview, Kim finds the situation to be too much. "Is this an intervention?" she asks before storming out of the interview. "I'm sorry, I can't."
Earlier this month, Richards was arrested and later charged with public intoxication, trespassing, resisting an officer and battery on a police officer.
Richards is due to appear at LAX Superior Court in early June.
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