Ladette Bianca Stevens has revealed the Nine Network paid for her to get drunk so they could film her during a night out in Wollongong.The flashback scene was used to introduce a plastered Stevens during the Aussie Ladette to Lady series which premiered in February.Stevens, who signed a contract agreeing not to talk to the media for three months after the show aired, said she was willing to speak out now because she wanted people to know what it was really like behind the scenes.
Ladette to Lady's Bianca Stevens in Zoo lingerie shoot Ladette to Lady topless romp drawns complaints Bianca Stevens expelled from Ladette to LadyThe 23-year-old said producers of the reality television show bought her eight litres of "goon'' cask wine to share among five friends at home and then later gave her at least $100 to buy more alcohol for herself and one other person at the North Gong Hotel."I've never been that drunk in my life,'' Stevens said. "I woke up the next morning at my friend's house with texta written all over my chest. I was still so drunk a few hours later I couldn't go to work.''The Nine Network confirmed it had purchased the alcohol."We asked the girls to show us a typical night out for their back stories, and if this involved a situation in a location where alcohol was required, of course we paid for it,'' a spokesperson said.Stevens said she could only recall the earlier half of the evening and had to contact the film crew the next morning to find out what happened."They told me that I got kicked out of the pub for standing on a table trying to fight three chicks,'' she said. "I can usually polish off a fair bit (of alcohol), but not that much. I'm not the type of person to get up on a table saying 'look at me'.''The footage was aired in the show's third episode, the same week Stevens was expelled from UK etiquette school Eggleston Hall.University of Wollongong academic Professor Sandra Jones estimated Stevens had consumed about 30 standard drinks. It is recommended that an adult woman drink no more than two standard drinks on any one day."That is a massive amount of alcohol,'' Prof Jones said. "We're talking about a huge risk of immediate harm. She would have had virtually no awareness of what she was doing. The risk of alcohol poisoning and the physical consequences such as falling and injuring herself or being hit by a car was huge.''Five young Australians die each week from the consequences of consuming alcohol. "I think the television show was completely irresponsible for providing the money for her to purchase that amount of alcohol,'' Prof Jones said. "I would have thought that if anything had happened to her they would have been directly responsible.''Nine had no further comment.Stevens said she was not an alcoholic and had curbed her drinking considerably since being on the show."I only drink now when I go out with friends and that's about once a week,'' she said."I don't drink every day. I don't wake up in the morning and need a drink.''In Saturday's Weekender: Stevens reveals her fight with depression since appearing on the show.
