Heather Thomas started using cocaine, but it wasn’t until her casting in “ The Fall Guy ” in 1981 that her drug problem escalated. She said “At first I was in a honeymoon stage with the drug. I felt that I was getting a lot for my money. It enabled me to stay up all night and then work all the next day,” she said . Right after the final episode of the last season of “The Fall Guy” got taped in 1985, her family faked news that her father got hospitalized to get her to St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica where they staged an intervention. Even though Heather had been in denial about her drug addiction for four years, she agreed to enter the hospital’s drug program. “It was a big relief to me, I’d been on a roller coaster, and I wanted to get off. If my family hadn’t intervened, I probably would have gone on my merry way until I lost my job or I died,” she said . Before Heather became an actress, she had aspirations to write and direct, which led to her attending UCLA Film School from