Troubled former reality TV star Jordan Finlayson in rehab ahead of sentencing for drug charge

A troubled former reality TV star and model is spending time in rehabilitation after a meth-fuelled fall from grace.

A disgraced former reality TV personality is being treated in a residential rehabilitation facility as she awaits sentencing for driving under the influence of drugs and fraud offences.

Jordan Ray Finlayson was due to be sentenced in Sydney Downing Centre Local Court on Friday after she pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle with drugs in her system and four counts of using a false document to influence exercise of public duty.

But her lawyer Matthew Wade told the court the 32-year-old was unable to attend court because she was residing in a rehabilitation facility.

He asked the court to adjourn the sentencing until next month, which was granted by Deputy Chief Magistrate Theo Tsavdaridis.

Former reality TV star and model Jordan Finlayson has admitted to drug and fraud charges. Picture: Instagram

Finlayson was a contestant on reality TV show Beauty and the Geek in 2011 before she turned to drugs and accrued convictions for drug supply and possession.

In the court documents, police assert she has a “lengthy” criminal record resulting from “her involvement with drug use”.

Last year, the former NRL cheerleader was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and released on bail under strict conditions which required her to report to police three times a week.

Yet police discovered she had falsified four medical certificates in order to avoid her reporting obligations.

The documents were accepted as legitimate until police were granted access to her phone and discovered different font sizes on the fabricated documents.

The court heard she is in rehabilitation. Picture: Instagram

She has struggled with drug use. Picture: Instagram

Doctors and staff who were named on the documents confirmed they had only provided certificates for some of Finlayson’s absences.

Months later, the model was busted by police driving under the influence of drugs for a second time.

Just days after Christmas, the agreed facts state she was driving a black Honda Accord through Mascot, in Sydney’s south, when police signalled her to stop for a random breath test.

Finlayson continued driving and attempted to avoid the roadside test, but police managed to stop her.

She returned a positive result for methamphetamine.

Finlayson appeared on Beauty and the Geek in 2011. Picture: Melvyn Knipe

According to the court documents, the 32-year-old committed all five offences while she was on parole for possessing meth in May 2023.

She was arrested by police after she passed out in the back of an Uber and the driver couldn’t wake her.

Officers found an ice pipe and a bottle of a party drug known as GHB.

When the former reality TV personality returns to court, the magistrate will have to decide whether to re-sentence her for the breach of her parole over the drug charge.

Originally published as Troubled former reality TV star Jordan Finlayson in rehab ahead of sentencing for drug charge