“I was like, ‘Mom, what’s going on?’
And she was like, ‘Baby, I just heard you committed suicide!'”
When asked point blank if he has sex with his clients, Joyner replies, “Not necessarily.
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Not all the clients have a full session.”
And they would come up to me and say [that] Barney must have molested us or something.
“And it was painful, given my history of actually going through that.
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It stung,” she continues.
“I did turn to drugs and alcohol to cope, to deal.”
I’d rather be known for that."
Rickey Carter, who played Derek from ‘90 to ‘95, joined a gang.
“When I left Barney, the streets were calling, and I answered,” he says.
Carter attempted to run and was shot in the spine, becoming paralyzed.
After a year of rehab, he defied his doctor’s belief he’d never walk again.
“It was a miracle,” Carter says.
“I got actual death and dismemberment of my family emails…. That was a terrible time.”
They were very explicit and very violent.
One of them asked, ‘Are you the Barney that I stabbed and shot outside of New Orleans?’
They went on to say that they were going to find me and kill me."
(Ultimately the skits were found to qualify as “parody.”
“I think all of that had to be rough on her marriage to Jim.”
She moved them to Turks and Caicos, opening a restaurant that Patrick worked at for a few years.
The Leaches’ divorce was finalized in 2001.
Shortly after, Jim committed suicide.
“It was beyond what anybody could ever think would happen.”
Leach ultimately pled no contest to assault with a deadly weapon.
“But there’s a good and bad with everything.”
