'America's Next Top Model' Jael Strauss' Meth Addiction Revealed on 'Dr. Phil' (Video)

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Jael Strauss, who competed on the eighth cycle of America's Next Top Model, reveals a stunning physical transformation on Thursday's installment of Dr. Phil, where her family attempts an intervention over her crippling meth addiction.

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"Do the drugs get her and take her life, or do we get her and save her life?" asks Dr. Phil McGraw in a promo for the episode, which shows Strauss running off the set and into the Paramount studio lot.

Strauss' parents reached out to the TV self-help guru to help the 28-year-old former aspiring model, who appeared on Top Model in 2007 as a fresh-faced beauty; she was shown on camera mourning the death of a friend who had died of an overdose.

Watch the teaser below.