THE death of former Court TV anchor Kristin Jeannette-Meyers revealed how she sunk into darkness plagued by addiction and loneliness.

Jeannette-Meyers rose to fame in the 1990s covering some of the most intriguing and famous cases including the trial of OJ Simpson.

The budding anchor and reporter worked for Court TV and CBS News before her life appeared to take an unexpected turn which has only been fully revealed since her death last summer.

At the age of 57, her remains were found at her home by a neighbor in Larchmont Village, Los Angeles, around six weeks after her death.

The former reporter lived in a run-down Spanish Villa among insects and rats, piles of trash, and animal feces.

Jeannette-Meyers’ bright light in the ’90s which appeared to show a promising television career was entirely extinguished in her later years.

She was “a star” and ” borderline a household name,” ABC’s chief legal affairs correspondent, Dan Abrams told the LA Times.

Abrams was a fellow Court TV colleague who worked with Jeannette-Meyers during the Simpson trial.

“We felt like we were at the center of the universe,” he added.

However, the state of her home and the eventual discovery of her remains reveal how Jeannette-Meyers vanished from view.

“It is unknown the last time the decedent was known to be alive,” a coroner’s investigator wrote in June 2022.

“I’m so horrified she came to such an end,” Cynthia Bowers, her co-host at CBS Morning News told the news outlet.

“Kristin was the most pulled-together person I knew.”

However, a personal caregiver who was hired by Jeannette-Meyers in the last year and a half of her life has revealed more details about the reporter’s demise.

“She was terrified of leaving the house,” said Beatriz Sanchez who applied for a job ad from a woman who lived alone in a five-bed home and rarely left the home other than for medication, cash, or cigarettes.

Sanchez told the LA Times that she would sometimes work her whole shift without seeing Jeannette-Meyers who would stay in her bedroom and routinely “pace, sleep, [and] panic.”

The caregiver revealed that the house was filled with trash and the cats were allowed to defecate indoors.

“I couldn’t be in there without opening the window because I would feel like I would throw up immediately,” Sanchez said.

Meanwhile, the insect infestation inside the house and a rat issue outside led to a complaint to the city calling the house “abandoned” and “left open to the public.”

Former Court TV producer Andy Regal, who worked with and dated her said: “You just know when somebody’s got it…She was just on it.”

This seems to be miles away from the empty shell of a woman residing at the dilapidated home on Gower Street.

Numerous incidents in her life show a slow decline in the former anchor’s mental health, personal life, and career.

According to the LA Times, despite her popularity by the end of the OJ Simpson case, at the Court TV office, Jeannette-Meyers was not so favored.

The anchor had reportedly been a diva behind the scenes which saw a report emerge in the New York Post claiming that money from CBS News to buy out her contract was used to pay staff members compensation for working with her.

“It devastated her,” Regal recalled.

“It’s not the way you want to be portrayed when you’re heading to CBS News.”

Jeannette-Meyers left CBS after a few years to marry her partner Paul Bernstein and relocate to LA.

Bernstein was in the middle of a divorce from his first wife whim whom he had two children and the subsequent fallout and legal proceedings continued for years.

Then in 2007 Jeannette-Meyers alleged in a police report that her father-in-law had pushed her down the front steps to the home when she visited with her husband to announce her pregnancy.

In this fall she allegedly received cuts and bruises and subsequently had a miscarriage.

“For the next 5 days I laid in bed and slowly mis-carried my 15-week, 1-day-old baby girl,” she wrote in an affidavit to the court.

“Nothing in life can prepare one for such sorrow.”

Two years later, Jeannette-Meyers and Bernstein married and later welcomed their first child in 2012 who had to battle cancer in her first months of life.

Their newborn daughter was successfully treated but it seems that these incidents along with her mental health took a toll on Jeannette-Meyers.

A few years after the arrival of her daughter, she was involved in numerous car crashes, according to lawsuits filed against her.

In 2014 she allegedly hit several cars in Hollywood, followed by slamming into a parked vehicle in Larchmont Village in 2015 and then hitting a car at a stop light in Norwalk in 2016.

While two suits were dismissed, David Goodstin who successfully sued for the damage to his car in the 2014 crash said she was “messed up.”

“You don’t fly down Cahuenga at 1 in the afternoon and hit all of the cars — Boom! Boom! Boom! — if you are not [messed] up,” he said.

A few years later in 2019, Jeannette Meyers was involved in another crash when she hit the center median on Pacific Coast Highway while en route to pick up her daughter from day camp.

Despite passing the breathalyzer test, she had a “three-inch sway,” difficulty focusing, and “uncontrollably” shaking hands, according to police officers.

The cops also found “a pill organizer with multiple different types of pills” and she was charged with suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs.

Jeannette-Meyers pleaded not guilty but agreed to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings every week while awaiting trial though she stopped showing up to court in 2020.

The year before the latest crash, Bernstein filed for a legal separation in which he asked the court to sell the house on Gower.

It appears that issues with her living conditions had begun around this time as he added that the judge order his wife to make “the two bedrooms she currently occupies…to be tidy and ‘broom clean,'” the court filing states.

Jeannette-Meyers kept the house and Bernstein moved out in 2021 with his daughter.

Despite her hopes of reconciliation, Bernstein eventually filed for divorce in May last year, just months before her death.

A couple of days after the filing, a process server delivered a copy of the divorce filing to Jenanette-Meyers’ home.

Reportedly, she told the man from the window that she was taking a call and “would pick up after.”

It is believed that this was the last interaction that she had with anyone before her death.

Six weeks later, a concerned neighbor entered the home to find her body.

She was unclothed in bed and had been dead for a long time.

The coroner’s report revealed that Jeannette-Meyers had a history of bipolar disorder, and was seeking medication from multiple doctors.

One of these was an osteopath who prescribed buprenorphine, an opioid often given to addicts to reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

The second doctor prescribed Xanax, antidepressants, and a panic disorder drug. She had other pills for major depressive disorder, nausea, and ADHD, according to a medications inventory.

Due to the level of decomposition of her body, the coroner’s examination was impacted but toxicology reports from her liver saw a deputy medical examiner rule the cause of death as a fatal combination of Xanax and buprenorphine.

He noted that “based on the history and circumstances as I currently know them … the manner of death is an accident.”

Regal, her former boyfriend who discovered the news of her death in her obituary was left shocked.

He told the LA Times that he was left wondering “how somebody who was such a bright light ended up this way.”

Meanwhile, Bowers, her former CBS co-anchor who had fond memories of her ex-collegue said: “There [but] by the grace of God go any of us.”

“I remember her seeming to be a perfect person, having a perfect life,” said Murphy, who had hired her at CBS.

“I assumed … she was going to have a very nice California lifestyle.”