By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

A former America’s Next Top Model contestant’s battle with crystal meth addiction is the subject of an explosive new episode of Dr. Phil, and Breaking Celebrity News has video of the reality doc's intervention.

Six years ago, striking beauty Jael Strauss was a finalist on the Tyra Banks hosted show; expected to go on and achieve great things - a career in fashion beckoned and the world was her oyster.

However, after becoming hooked on methamphetamine, Strauss, 28, soon became a helpless addict and in an episode airing on September 13, her family turns to Dr. Phil McGraw for an intervention.

Ravaged in appearance and living on the streets, Strauss is hunted down by interventionists Brandon and Debbie, who ask her to travel to Los Angeles to see Dr. Phil.

Reluctantly she agrees. But after she finds herself on the stage, she runs out of the studio and into the Paramou