SingaporeThe country is wondering whats next for DJ Tenashar, who was not long ago seemingly on top of the world, and now, the latest news about her has been her arrest early last month for attempting to break into a house on Edgware Road.
The DJ and model, now age 33, received an 18-month jail sentence after she pleaded guilty to consuming benzoylecgonine. This metabolite of cocaine and psilocin can be found in most psychedelic mushrooms. She also admitted to possessing another drug, psilocin.
Ms Tenashar, whose real name is Debbie Valerie Tenashar Long and who is a mother to a 12-year-old girl, seemed to want to clean up her life after her prison stint.
In an interview with The Straits Times (ST) just last June, she called her imprisonment a blessing in disguise because she met a number of talented musicians while incarcerated, which sparked her own creativity.
She told ST, I started discovering girls who could sing really well. They wrote songs and poems, and created their own beats using the stuff that we had.
So we started making music. It was the last place that I would have thought of looking for talent.
The former DJ even announced her intent of becoming an ambassador against drugs, and said she would go back to help the women in prison who want to be musicians.
I am intending to bring in equipment like guitars and DJ consoles, and train them to become musicians. Many people have a negative stigma when it comes to prisoners, but I think we can turn that around.
However, Ms Tenashars life took a bizarre turn not long after that.
In the early morning hours of July 5 she was found by the staff of the Berjaya Waterfront Hotel at Johor Bahru, who thought Ms Tenashar was inebriated, asleep on one of the couches in the lobby. She was not registered as a guest at the hotel.
She was then brought to a police station upon her request, because she wanted to file a report, saying she was trying to run and hide from being murdered.
However, at the police station the urine sample she provided tested positive for drugs, and Ms Tenashar was promptly arrested.
After her release and return to Singapore, however, Ms Tenashars fortunes took another turn when she was arrested two days later, on July 7, for criminal trespass and suspected drug-related offences at Edgware Road.
Once on top of the world
Its been quite the roller coaster ride for Ms Tenashar, who was once on the list of the top 100 DJs around the globe in DJ Magazine.
The DJ and model, now age 33, received an 18-month jail sentence after she pleaded guilty to consuming benzoylecgonine. This metabolite of cocaine and psilocin can be found in most psychedelic mushrooms. She also admitted to possessing another drug, psilocin.
Ms Tenashar, whose real name is Debbie Valerie Tenashar Long and who is a mother to a 12-year-old girl, seemed to want to clean up her life after her prison stint.
In an interview with The Straits Times (ST) just last June, she called her imprisonment a blessing in disguise because she met a number of talented musicians while incarcerated, which sparked her own creativity.
She told ST, I started discovering girls who could sing really well. They wrote songs and poems, and created their own beats using the stuff that we had.
So we started making music. It was the last place that I would have thought of looking for talent.
The former DJ even announced her intent of becoming an ambassador against drugs, and said she would go back to help the women in prison who want to be musicians.
I am intending to bring in equipment like guitars and DJ consoles, and train them to become musicians. Many people have a negative stigma when it comes to prisoners, but I think we can turn that around.
However, Ms Tenashars life took a bizarre turn not long after that.
In the early morning hours of July 5 she was found by the staff of the Berjaya Waterfront Hotel at Johor Bahru, who thought Ms Tenashar was inebriated, asleep on one of the couches in the lobby. She was not registered as a guest at the hotel.
She was then brought to a police station upon her request, because she wanted to file a report, saying she was trying to run and hide from being murdered.
However, at the police station the urine sample she provided tested positive for drugs, and Ms Tenashar was promptly arrested.
After her release and return to Singapore, however, Ms Tenashars fortunes took another turn when she was arrested two days later, on July 7, for criminal trespass and suspected drug-related offences at Edgware Road.
Once on top of the world
Its been quite the roller coaster ride for Ms Tenashar, who was once on the list of the top 100 DJs around the globe in DJ Magazine.