Stephanie Seymour?? Getting Alcohol Rehab Treatment After Her DUI

Stephanie Seymour?? is headed to alcohol rehab to receive treatment, following the supermodel’s DUI in Greenwich, Connecticut. Applying for the treatment program could dismiss the 47-year-old’s drunk driving charge, reports NY Daily News.

“This is an ordinary first-offender drunk driving case where our experience is that most first offenders do not drive drunk again,” says the attorney of Stephanie Seymour, Phillip Russell. “Ms. Seymour has been appropriate throughout this whole process and is behaving like a first offender.”

Stephanie Seymour’s DUI was brought on by the mother of three backing her SUV into another vehicle, a white Mercedes, on an Interstate 95 exit ramp, on January 15 in Greenwich. No one was injured, but an officer at the scene said that Seymour’s breath smelled of alcohol, and her eyes were bloodshot. Stephanie was asked to complete field sobriety tests but apparently refused to do so, according to CBS News, which did not help her case. Neither do the additional charges of the former Victoria’s Secret model crashing into a utility pole and fleeing the scene in a separate incident that occurred that day, as well as charges for evading responsibility and failure to drive in a proper lane.

“After six or seven requests for her license, registration and insurance, she finally was able to fumble through her purse as she handed over her Connecticut driver’s license along with a credit card,” according to the police report.

Phillip Russell says that he believes Seymour is not an alcoholic or has a drinking problem. Russell says Stephanie is going to enter an “accelerated alcohol education program,” one that tends to be available for first-time offenders. Stephanie Seymour is due back in court on April 4, where it will be decided whether or not Seymour can enter the alcohol rehab treatment program.

Phillip Russell caught up with the Connecticut Post outside the court, telling them that Seymour felt “embarrassed.”

“Ms. Seymour had a career in fashion, but in this instance she is just like 3,500 other motorists in Connecticut who have made a similar error,” Russell said. “She is not looking for any special treatment or preferential treatment of any kind. Hopefully this will be the most uneventful DWI charge that this court has ever handled. Anyone facing this charge has to look at their personal habits and I think that is exactly what these habits are, they are personal and not something which bears public scrutiny.”

Stephanie Seymour’s Range Rover was damaged, police noticed at the time of her arrest, but they were unable to determine the reason for the dents. Even one hour after the former model was taken into custody by police, patrol officers had stumbled upon the knocked-over utility poll that was nearby, though no one had reported it. Authorities later concluded that the debris at the scene of the crime was from a black Range Rover — much like the one that Seymour owns. The damage was consistent with the damage done to her car, police discovered after three weeks of investigating.

In 2000, Stephanie Seymour was admitted into a luxurious rehab center, Silver Hill Hospital. Ten years later, her husband Peter Brant accused her of drug and alcohol abuse, while they were in the middle of a divorce. The couple originally married in June of 1995 in Paris. Both Seymour and Brant underwent drug testing and it is not currently known whether or not they are still together.

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