Doctor Debi Thomas, who is a former Olympic figure skater that became famous after she was recognized as the first African-American athlete to receive a medal at the Winter Olympics, admitted that her life turned upside down and she's now penniless and living in bug infested trailer park.
In 1988, Thomas competed for the figure skating championship at the Winter Olympics in Calgary and took home the bronze medal while studying engineering at Stanford University. At the latter years she then went on to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to complete a medical degree and became an orthopedic surgeon.
But after how many years, after a series of subsequent mistakes Thomas has now revealed in an episode of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' aired Saturday on the Oprah Winfrey Network, she had two failed marriage, she's now broke and currently sleeping in a bed bug infested place with her fiancé and his sons.
Thomas revealed after she retired from skating, she became a board-certified orthopedic surgeon but was fired from two jobs after getting involved in a dispute with her colleagues. She also underwent two divorces and lost custody of her 13-year-old son, Christopher Jules Bequette, from her second husband. Now, she's living in a trailer park with her fiancé, Jaime Looner, who she admitted is having an alcohol and anger issues.
"You got to a point where you couldn't afford to do anything other than live in a trailer. Is that what I'm hearing you say?" life coach Iyanla Vanzant asked Thomas in a preview for the heart breaking episode as the former athlete broke in tears.
After what Thomas been through, she insisted that she was not sad nor angry with her life and "frustration" was the only feeling she has.
"Not guilty that you've got a man, two kids and a bedbug infestation in a trailer," Vanzant asked. "Frustration is what you feel? Nothing else?"
'Iyanla: Fix My Life' airs on Saturdays at 9 p.m.
