No new episodes will be shot. No more Home Delivery camera crews documenting
Jillian Stevens' every move.
The 26-year-old has battled bulimia half her life. "I go through a dozen eggs
when I binge," Stevens says in the show.
Producers of the show Home Delivery flew Jillian Stevens here five weeks ago
from Minnesota.
"I want help!" she says in the show.
Weighing in at 68 pounds, Jillian would be profiled week after week. Home
Delivery promised to deliver.
"I want you to get better," the reporter in the show tells her. "We're
heading to the treatment center to get better once and for all," the reporter
says.
In theory? Sounds great. The reality? Jillian Stevens felt abandoned.
"Yeah. Oh yeah," she tells Komo 4 News.
Jillian tells me when the show got cancelled a few days ago, she got no
explanation, just an airline ticket to go back to Minnesota. Friday night.
"I told Dr. Jantz, 'I'm scared to go home now. I know I would die,' " says
Jillian.
Jillian was getting treatment in Edmonds at The Center for Counseling and
Health Resources. It's one of the leading centers for eating disorders in the
country.
Dr. Gregg Jantz runs the clinic. He's in limbo too.
"Still haven't heard anything. Still," says Dr. Jantz. But Dr. Jantz promises
to donate his expertise and continue treating Jillian, show or no show.
"That's our goal. We want to see her through," says Dr. Jantz.
Many bulimia patients lose their teeth. And Jillian is no exception. Seattle
dentist Brian McKay also promises to continue to treat Jillian.
These doctors won't give up on her. And Jillian promises she won't give up on
herself.
"I know I can get back to health," says Jillian.
From now on, there won't be any cameras pointed at her watching her get
better.
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