NJ Actress Says Her Addiction 'Killed Someone,' Faces More Jail

A New Jersey actress told a gathering at a candlelight vigil for substance abuse victims this week that she's paying the ultimate price for her addiction – just as her punishment for vehicular homicide could get worse.

"My addiction killed someone,"Amy Locane, a former actress from "Melrose Place," told the gathering on a video recorded Tuesday night by NJ Advance Media in Trenton. The video is posted below.

Her admission comes just as Somerset County prosecutors are fighting to have her return to jail because her 3-year prison sentence, they say, was too lenient after she was convicted in 2013.

"That's a very difficult thing to think about," Locane said. "It just reiterates to me how ugly addiction is."

The crash occurred on June 27, 2010 when Locane's SUV hit a Mercury Milan turning into a driveway in Montgomery Township. Her blood-alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit and she was driving 53 mph in a 35 mph zone, authorities said.

Helene Seeman of Montgomery, a passenger in the car, was killed and her husband, who was driving, was critically injured.

A little over a month ago, the state Supreme Court decided not to hear Locane's appeal as she faces sentencing for a third time on charges of vehicular homicide and assault by auto, accordng to mycentraljersey.com.

Locane appealed a March appellate court decision that called her sentence in the case "excessively" lenient, according to the report, and then ordered that she return to Superior Court for a new sentencing.

Here is the video of Locane:

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