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Star of the infamous SBS series Struggle Street, Billie Jo Wilkie is behind bars after being caught shoplifting.
The 26-year-old pleaded guilty to shoplifting from a Mount Druitt retail centre, where she stole denture cleaners, travel padlocks, toiletries, fishing equipment and groceries.
WATCH: Pregnant Billie smoking bong on Struggle Street
The Mount Druitt Local Court heard that the Struggle Street star has battled addiction to both heroin and ice since appearing on the show.
Wilkie is also facing court on Monday for separate knife, stealing and assault charges, all of which she has pleaded not guilty.
The court heard that Wilkie had lost two siblings in recent years and has a ‘background of trauma’.
‘Her current focus is to get off drugs,’ her solicitor Sarah Salman told the court.
‘She has been struggling with drugs since the age of 13.
‘She uses drugs to cope. She has never had a job but she would like to [work].’
Wilkie made headlines in the SBS series after she was seen smoking a bong while heavily pregnant.
