Date and Issue: Number 495, February 7, 1998.

Pages: 1/2 a page.

Pictures: 3 color photos.

Article: Brief article about Lynda's rehab rumours.

Author: Not stated.

Country: UK.

According to reports. which have been denied by her spokesperson, Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has checked herself into a rehab centre in a battle against alcohol addiction. The Seventies TV super heroine and former Miss World USA is said to have turned for help to Father Martin's Ashley Treatment Center in Maryland (above), which once treated the late Michael Kennedy. Checking in under the name Jean R' after New Year, the 46-year­old actress is said to have felt nervous about being recognised, but apparently revealed her true identity when the programme recommended honesty.

Friends say Lynda turned to drink following the death of a close friend at the end of last year, but managed to keep her secret habit hidden from her lawyer husband Robert Altman. 50, and her two children, Jamie, ten, and seven-year-old Jessica. "Now I realise I've been addicted to alcohol for years and I need help," Lynda is alleged to have told a friend. "I can no longer deal with this terrible problem alone."

Making her family a priority, Lynda put her career on hold to raise her children and help her husband weather an international banking scandal in 1993. Friends and family now hope that the treatment will help put her life back on track.

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