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- 0:08Speaker 1: There's no doubt the medicine Ambient can really helping off
- 0:11Speaker 1: a lot of people, but it can also, from all reports,
- 0:14Speaker 1: do some really weird things to folks, from unknowingly eating
- 0:18Speaker 1: and sleeping, to driving to work in their pjas, to
- 0:21Speaker 1: unknowingly attempting to commit suicide. This is Crime Stories with
- 0:27Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. Ambient has been on the market since its
- 0:31Speaker 1: approval in the US. In the company that makes the
- 0:35Speaker 1: drugs hand of the Aventis says Ambience provided twenty years
- 0:38Speaker 1: of use and twenty four billion knights of patient therapy worldwide,
- 0:44Speaker 1: and the drug is very dangerous and it puts everybody
- 0:48Speaker 1: at risk because we don't know how they're going to react.
- 0:50Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen to him, and
- 0:52Speaker 1: we've punished the personal the patient. The superstar workout you're
- 1:00Speaker 1: to on Bravo Fitness has just been arrested for felony
- 1:06Speaker 1: assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer. It's
- 1:11Speaker 1: really hard for me to believe. Jackie Warner. I mean,
- 1:15Speaker 1: I've seen her a million times flipping through the channels.
- 1:18Speaker 1: She's beautiful. She was the star of the Bravo workout series.
- 1:23Speaker 1: What aggravated felony assault with a deadly weapon and on
- 1:29Speaker 1: a cop no list. This is crime Stories. I'mancy Grace,
- 1:33Speaker 1: thank you for being with us, and her defense is
- 1:37Speaker 1: ambient Ambien the sleeping Pill. Cops say that Jackie crashed
- 1:44Speaker 1: her car in West Hollywood. She also hit a pole
- 1:47Speaker 1: where told. When police arrived, she backed into their car,
- 1:51Speaker 1: causing a deputy to jump out of harm's way. She
- 1:54Speaker 1: was arrested and booked and taken to jail. What now.
- 1:58Speaker 1: We're also learning that she says she went to a
- 2:01Speaker 1: lunch that afternoon and had one martini. Okay. Then she
- 2:07Speaker 1: says she took an uber to and from the restaurant.
- 2:11Speaker 1: The source states that when she got home, she took
- 2:14Speaker 1: one Ambien and went to sleep, and that she woke
- 2:19Speaker 1: up surrounded by police in the hospital with no recollection
- 2:26Speaker 1: of driving. To top it all off, in addition to
- 2:29Speaker 1: the sleep driving defense, she wasn't wearing any pants just
- 2:34Speaker 1: Dundee's Now listen, if you believe her story, why would
- 2:38Speaker 1: she we wearing any pants? Okay, so the pants are
- 2:40Speaker 1: not my problem. The running down a cop car is
- 2:43Speaker 1: my problem. Hey, thank you, simply safe for being with
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- 3:19Speaker 1: simply Safe. Thank you. Now back to Jackie Warner, the
- 3:23Speaker 1: workout guru with me. Now the Duke, Alan Douke, what happened.
- 3:28Speaker 1: It's hard for me to believe this woman would knowingly
- 3:30Speaker 1: ram into a police car. I have actually been talking
- 3:33Speaker 1: to Jackie since just hours after she got out of
- 3:36Speaker 1: jail on Saturday. She reached out to me and she
- 3:39Speaker 1: wanted to explain to me what happened to her. And
- 3:42Speaker 1: I believe what she's telling me, Nancy, because I've had
- 3:45Speaker 1: a lot of discussions with her. She says that she
- 3:47Speaker 1: took this one ambient pill. I don't know if you've
- 3:50Speaker 1: ever used ambience ever. I've done it once, and only once. Now.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Ambient the sleeping pill. It's a sleeping pill. It's the
- 3:58Speaker 1: widely used it is very widely used. I don't have
- 4:01Speaker 1: enough toes and fingers to count all of all the
- 4:04Speaker 1: people I know that take an ambient at night and
- 4:07Speaker 1: they think nothing of it. I took it once. I
- 4:09Speaker 1: didn't wake up for twelve hours, which I guess was good,
- 4:12Speaker 1: but it kind of scared me because I didn't remember anything.
- 4:15Speaker 1: You didn't remember anything, Alan, I didn't dream. I don't
- 4:18Speaker 1: remember dreaming. I remember. That kind of scared me. I
- 4:20Speaker 1: loved dreaming. That's very interesting to me that you didn't
- 4:23Speaker 1: remember anything. You know, I was asleep, But she is
- 4:26Speaker 1: saying is that she didn't remember anything. Just I just
- 4:29Speaker 1: want to tell you one thing, Okay, Alan, you and
- 4:32Speaker 1: I were discussing different people that we both knew, and
- 4:36Speaker 1: a woman that was a very very dear friend of mine, Meg,
- 4:41Speaker 1: she had dental surgery the next day. She prosecuted with me.
- 4:45Speaker 1: She was in child support recovery, you know, deadbeat dads,
- 4:49Speaker 1: and she's really into it. It was her mission. She
- 4:52Speaker 1: had dental surgery the next day, and she was taking
- 4:55Speaker 1: something to prep for the dental surgery. You know how
- 4:58Speaker 1: sometimes you take antibiotics or something. Anyway, they all also
- 5:02Speaker 1: told her to take I think it was ambient and
- 5:05Speaker 1: then whatever regular medications she took, alan she died in
- 5:10Speaker 1: her sleep and left two behind. So I'm not saying
- 5:14Speaker 1: ambient is a big health risk, but what I am
- 5:17Speaker 1: saying is when you mix it with something else, you
- 5:20Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen. Google ambient and sleepless
- 5:25Speaker 1: driving and you will see many examples of what happened
- 5:28Speaker 1: Jackie has happened to her. So, she had this very
- 5:31Speaker 1: important meeting. She says she had one martini or one
- 5:34Speaker 1: drink while she was at the meeting. Then she ubered home,
- 5:36Speaker 1: as you said. Then she it was about six o'clock
- 5:39Speaker 1: at night or something like that. She decided to go
- 5:41Speaker 1: to sleep, and she took an ambient and she and
- 5:44Speaker 1: as you say, she woke up and the next thing
- 5:46Speaker 1: she knew, she was in the hospital surrounded by deputies.
- 5:49Speaker 1: But what we know that happened in between that was,
- 5:52Speaker 1: for some reason, somehow she got into a car. It's
- 5:55Speaker 1: a Porsche and it's in West Hollywood. She drove by
- 5:58Speaker 1: a seven eleven. Then she drove into a utility pole.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Fortunately nobody was hurt. But then when the police showed up,
- 6:07Speaker 1: she was somehow drove into the cop car well, of
- 6:11Speaker 1: course that's what got the most serious chart of trying
- 6:15Speaker 1: to attack a cop with a deadly weapon, and that
- 6:17Speaker 1: was of course her car. She says that she just
- 6:20Speaker 1: woke up and that was that she doesn't remember anything. Now,
- 6:23Speaker 1: we don't have blood tests back, and I don't know
- 6:25Speaker 1: how blood tests detect ambient and that sort of thing,
- 6:28Speaker 1: but that'll be interesting. But the point is she called
- 6:31Speaker 1: me on Saturday and basically said that she wanted she
- 6:34Speaker 1: was so upset about this, she wanted other people to
- 6:37Speaker 1: know the dangers of ambient. Then that's how she's dealing
- 6:41Speaker 1: with it, is she wants to let people know what
- 6:44Speaker 1: can happen to you. This is before she hired a
- 6:46Speaker 1: lawyer or anything. She said she wanted to get that
- 6:48Speaker 1: message out there, you know, and to wake up cops
- 6:52Speaker 1: surrounding you and not have any recollection. Wow, no recollection. Now,
- 6:58Speaker 1: if you look up being sleepwalking, it says the disturbing
- 7:03Speaker 1: side effects of ambien, which is the number one prescription
- 7:07Speaker 1: sleep paid, the number one. You know, they're all these
- 7:12Speaker 1: cases of people acting bizarrely on ambient. Is it true?
- 7:17Speaker 1: I don't know, But you know Jackie Warren, you know
- 7:19Speaker 1: her personally. I mean is this characteristic? Un characteristic? What
- 7:24Speaker 1: it is not characteristic? She's very careful about what she
- 7:27Speaker 1: puts in her body. Her body is what you know.
- 7:29Speaker 1: She's a fitness instructor. She actually, I tell you what
- 7:32Speaker 1: has happened with her the last couple of years she's
- 7:35Speaker 1: been she's forty eight years old, and guess what she's
- 7:37Speaker 1: been trying to do. She's been trying to become a mother.
- 7:39Speaker 1: So she's been going through fertility treatments and that sort
- 7:42Speaker 1: of thing. Not been working out so much because of
- 7:44Speaker 1: all the estrogen and hormones and everything that you've got
- 7:47Speaker 1: to do. And she hasn't been drinking much, but she's
- 7:51Speaker 1: I think, stopped that process. But she she's she's not
- 7:54Speaker 1: a big drinker. She will admit that there was a
- 7:56Speaker 1: time in her life that she went through some things,
- 7:58Speaker 1: but she takes care of her body. Her body being
- 8:00Speaker 1: the Temple law enforcement sources state she was point o eight. Yeah,
- 8:04Speaker 1: but that's blowing. That's a breathalyzer, and you know that
- 8:08Speaker 1: a point eight is borderline. And also can you use
- 8:12Speaker 1: a breathalyzer as evidence in court? Really? Absolutely? I thought
- 8:17Speaker 1: that was just to establish the probable cause that they
- 8:20Speaker 1: could then take blood, but they did take blood. No,
- 8:23Speaker 1: you can use a breathalyzer. You don't have to submit
- 8:26Speaker 1: to anything, but you absolutely can use a breathalyzer in court.
- 8:30Speaker 1: And it's not a cut off. O A is driving
- 8:34Speaker 1: under the influence, Yes, legally it is. That's that's the
- 8:37Speaker 1: bottom end of the range, now, right, I mean it
- 8:40Speaker 1: is the very bottom because the cut off is O eight.
- 8:43Speaker 1: If you are O A or above, you're considered d
- 8:47Speaker 1: u I. But then that the breathalyzer, of course, can
- 8:50Speaker 1: be challenging. But really the big thing is it's going
- 8:52Speaker 1: to be the blood test that's gonna be the best evidence. Right, Well,
- 8:55Speaker 1: here's the problem, and I want her to be telling
- 8:58Speaker 1: the truth. I'm open and set authetic to hearing what
- 9:01Speaker 1: she has to say because I think that she is
- 9:04Speaker 1: into physical fitness. I don't believe she has an alcohol
- 9:08Speaker 1: drinking problem. But I'm telling you this. If you have
- 9:11Speaker 1: one martini and you go home and take an ambien
- 9:15Speaker 1: and go to sleep. However, many hours later, if you're
- 9:19Speaker 1: still a point oh eight, that could suggest to some
- 9:23Speaker 1: experts you had more than one martini, because that one
- 9:26Speaker 1: drink should dissipate in your body over the hours, right,
- 9:29Speaker 1: now again, thank you Simply Safe for making our podcast possible.
- 9:33Speaker 1: In today, we're talking about fitness guru Jackie Warner, who
- 9:38Speaker 1: has now been charged with d u I and assault
- 9:42Speaker 1: with a deadly weapon on a police officer, that weapon
- 9:45Speaker 1: being her car. Now we all know that Jackie Warner
- 9:49Speaker 1: if you've ever seen Reality TV and the series on Bravo.
- 9:54Speaker 1: She left, she came back and did the intervention. After
- 9:59Speaker 1: she did that, she wrote several best selling fitness and
- 10:03Speaker 1: diet books. She's released an album of dance music. Long
- 10:07Speaker 1: story short, She's incredibly talented, incredibly about health and fitness. Now,
- 10:13Speaker 1: one thing that, according to sources, she is mortified that
- 10:19Speaker 1: she was driving in her underwear. Yeah, I gotta tell
- 10:21Speaker 1: you something, if you look at some of her promo shots,
- 10:24Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a whole lot less than what she
- 10:26Speaker 1: wears and some of her promo shots. And I am
- 10:28Speaker 1: not judging because if I had a body like that,
- 10:31Speaker 1: I would totally be doing workout videos all the time
- 10:33Speaker 1: and saying, you know, look at my body. Okay, she
- 10:36Speaker 1: looks awesome. So I wouldn't be too worried about the
- 10:38Speaker 1: underwear part, because if you look at her promos, just
- 10:43Speaker 1: basically wearing that in the promo. She is mortified. I
- 10:46Speaker 1: don't think she wanted people to know that she didn't
- 10:48Speaker 1: have pants on, but it's really a relevant piece of
- 10:50Speaker 1: evidence to support her belief. She she doesn't even know
- 10:54Speaker 1: what the police arrest report says, and she is still
- 10:59Speaker 1: in shock, and she's just finding some of these details out.
- 11:01Speaker 1: I don't think until until today she even knew that
- 11:05Speaker 1: she was given a breathalyzer. She told me that she
- 11:08Speaker 1: doesn't even remember taking it. That you are talking to
- 11:10Speaker 1: believe it or not. A sleepwalker as a young girl,
- 11:14Speaker 1: I would actually try to get out the front door sleepwalking,
- 11:18Speaker 1: had all sorts of night terrors, sleepwalking, the works. Then
- 11:23Speaker 1: after my fiance was murdered, it retriggered it all. I
- 11:27Speaker 1: kind of grown out of it. Then it went on
- 11:29Speaker 1: for years after that. It's kind of dissipated now, although
- 11:33Speaker 1: I get up and down all night long, but people
- 11:35Speaker 1: do sleepwalk, and I mean on no alcohol, no ambient,
- 11:40Speaker 1: no anything. So I don't really know how to take it.
- 11:44Speaker 1: I want to believe her because I like what I
- 11:46Speaker 1: know of her. But you know, come on now, Alan
- 11:50Speaker 1: to say that there was just one martini, but witnesses
- 11:52Speaker 1: apparently back that up. It's not just her saying it.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Then the one martini and the one ambien. You know,
- 12:00Speaker 1: I find it odd, not just unbelievable, but it's funny
- 12:04Speaker 1: what people watch onto. She's looking at an agassault I
- 12:08Speaker 1: guess the cole, and she's worried that she had on
- 12:10Speaker 1: her underwear. I'm like, forget your underwear, lady. You don't
- 12:12Speaker 1: want to go to jail. That's that's that's that's much
- 12:14Speaker 1: you need to worry about. Forget the underwear. Well, she's
- 12:17Speaker 1: got a good lawyer. Sean Holly is her lawyer. The
- 12:19Speaker 1: lady who guided a number of celebrities through their travails,
- 12:22Speaker 1: including Lindsay Lohan. So she's got a really good attorney
- 12:25Speaker 1: who can guide her through the court system on this.
- 12:28Speaker 1: I don't know that I would brag about being Lindsay
- 12:30Speaker 1: Lohan's lawyer. I was there probably thirty court appearances with
- 12:34Speaker 1: Sean Holly and Lindsay Lohan, and I can tell you
- 12:37Speaker 1: that Sean Holly has the patience of job. Yes, job,
- 12:42Speaker 1: The patience of job is gonna boil down to this
- 12:46Speaker 1: is the ambient defense real? Or is it like total
- 12:50Speaker 1: and complete b Yes, that's what This is going to
- 12:53Speaker 1: boil down to you have said in the past to
- 12:56Speaker 1: me that it's no defense if you did something, let's
- 13:00Speaker 1: say you commit a crime, a murder or whatever while
- 13:03Speaker 1: you're under the influence of drugs, because you knew the
- 13:06Speaker 1: drugs could do that to you, Right, it's no defense.
- 13:09Speaker 1: That's not exactly what I said, because that could lead
- 13:13Speaker 1: leave open for the argument I didn't know the drug
- 13:16Speaker 1: could do that. I mean, hey, I took cocaine, but
- 13:18Speaker 1: I didn't know it made me that crazy. No, that
- 13:21Speaker 1: the law is voluntary use of drugs or alcohol. It
- 13:25Speaker 1: is not a defense. Under the law. You can't crash
- 13:28Speaker 1: into a police car and go oops, I had an ambien. Well,
- 13:32Speaker 1: what if you didn't know the ambient had that effect
- 13:35Speaker 1: on people? What if you didn't know that when you
- 13:37Speaker 1: took All she did was taken ambien before bedtime, as
- 13:40Speaker 1: doctor prescribed, I assume prescription medicine. What if she didn't
- 13:44Speaker 1: If she wasn't aware that that was a possible consequence
- 13:48Speaker 1: of taking that drug, then is she's still guilty? Doesn't matter?
- 13:53Speaker 1: I mean under the law it doesn't matter. But a
- 13:56Speaker 1: judge could be sympathetic in a jury, could be sympathetic
- 13:59Speaker 1: if she's believable, Ambien burst onto the scene around and
- 14:05Speaker 1: various destages have emerged to address particular patient needs, such
- 14:12Speaker 1: as for the elderly people with metabolic issues. I mean,
- 14:17Speaker 1: every facet of ambient has been addressed. But whether a
- 14:23Speaker 1: jury would believe that one ambient and one martini would
- 14:28Speaker 1: make you act out like this, it's gonna be that's
- 14:32Speaker 1: a tough one. And that's why I'm saying to you,
- 14:35Speaker 1: Alan Deep, if you know Jackie and this is totally uncharacteristic,
- 14:40Speaker 1: that's really gonna work in her behavior. It's not like
- 14:43Speaker 1: she's a boozer and a druggie and she's out partying
- 14:47Speaker 1: and well, like Lindsey Lohan, that was a good example.
- 14:50Speaker 1: That's that's not her. I don't think she's not Lindsay Lohan.
- 14:54Speaker 1: That's exactly right. And they I think, how does it
- 14:57Speaker 1: work in court? I think I know the answer to
- 14:58Speaker 1: this because I've seen it. But you're the prosecutor. How
- 15:02Speaker 1: how does the court look if you, immediately after you're arrested,
- 15:05Speaker 1: you come out in public and and start this message
- 15:09Speaker 1: of trying to help people avoid what you went through. Well,
- 15:12Speaker 1: I think it's very helpful. And I think that just
- 15:15Speaker 1: being straight, if this is really what happened to her,
- 15:18Speaker 1: the facts are not going to change. She needs to
- 15:21Speaker 1: marshal her evidence, i e. Her witnesses that were with
- 15:25Speaker 1: her when she had the one marteeny possibly even the
- 15:28Speaker 1: bill that goes along with it, to show that's what
- 15:30Speaker 1: she drank. If you can't find the bill, then you've
- 15:32Speaker 1: got a problem, okay. Then to show that she went
- 15:36Speaker 1: to the house and that she did have the prescription
- 15:39Speaker 1: for ambient and why. And I find it very hard
- 15:42Speaker 1: to believe she would be out riding around in her
- 15:44Speaker 1: underwear and ram reverse into a cop car. It's not
- 15:48Speaker 1: something that is I could logically believe she might be
- 15:51Speaker 1: able to win this. But back to your question, I've
- 15:54Speaker 1: always said that if one known a writer had come
- 15:58Speaker 1: clean at the beginning and said, listen, I was drinking.
- 16:02Speaker 1: I was in a depression. I felt like I'm actually
- 16:08Speaker 1: making this up. I felt like I deserve those items.
- 16:11Speaker 1: I know it was wrong. I don't want anyone, any
- 16:14Speaker 1: young girls who look up to me to do this,
- 16:16Speaker 1: because you can go to jail. And I want to
- 16:18Speaker 1: apologize and I want to, you know, pick up trash
- 16:22Speaker 1: or talk to high school students or whatever you want
- 16:25Speaker 1: me to do, because I did this. It was stupid
- 16:27Speaker 1: and I'm sorry and it will never happen again, So
- 16:30Speaker 1: help me God in Heaven. She had done that, there
- 16:33Speaker 1: would not have been that horrible trial. She may not
- 16:36Speaker 1: have been found guilty. She probably could have gotten something
- 16:38Speaker 1: like pre trial intervention, where you go and talk to
- 16:41Speaker 1: students and tell them don't do this. It sounds like
- 16:44Speaker 1: a small thing, but it can mess up your life.
- 16:46Speaker 1: I'll have a conviction for Pete's, like ever, what a
- 16:48Speaker 1: blouse for Macy's. My point is just come clean and
- 16:53Speaker 1: try to get preachril intervention and you don't end up
- 16:56Speaker 1: having a public spectacle of a trial like when Owen
- 16:59Speaker 1: Writer had because we covered it live on Court TV.
- 17:02Speaker 1: And then you're basically blackballed. Remember she didn't do a
- 17:07Speaker 1: movie forever. She she disappeared for a while and then
- 17:10Speaker 1: she came back strong, and I'm glad she did. This
- 17:13Speaker 1: is one of the scary things. I mean, you've got
- 17:15Speaker 1: a good law you're you're in Los Angeles where they
- 17:18Speaker 1: deal with these cases in a certain way, not like
- 17:20Speaker 1: if you were in like say you were in the
- 17:22Speaker 1: real world, not like if you were let's say in
- 17:25Speaker 1: Gwynette County, Georgia. For the rest of us regular people,
- 17:29Speaker 1: is that what you're trying to say exactly? What come clean?
- 17:34Speaker 1: I think it matters. And plus, you know, this could
- 17:37Speaker 1: be a whole turnaround for her. It really could, and
- 17:40Speaker 1: in a good way. I mean, think about it. If
- 17:41Speaker 1: she comes clean, she tells what happens, this could be
- 17:45Speaker 1: a launching point for her to re invigorate her workout career,
- 17:50Speaker 1: her you know, her clean living life style, the whole thing.
- 17:54Speaker 1: If it's really happened the way she says it, she's
- 17:58Speaker 1: going to have to have some experts to prove it. Okay,
- 18:00Speaker 1: we're talking about the guru fitness expert Jackie Warner, busted
- 18:05Speaker 1: on d y and ramming a cop car after one
- 18:09Speaker 1: martinian and ambient final word, don't do it. Okay. I
- 18:14Speaker 1: want this to work for her. I want this to
- 18:16Speaker 1: work for her. I really do. Okay, everybody, Nancy Grace
- 18:20Speaker 1: Crimes Stories with the Duke Alan Deke signing off and
- 18:23Speaker 1: stay tuned. What's gonna happen with Jackie Warner? My friend