Major blow for Struggle Street’s famous pregnant bong smoker – just months after her ex-partner died
Struggle Street’s famous pregnant bong smoker Billie Jo Wilkie is back behind bars after a violent daylight hammer attack on another woman earlier this year.
Wilkie, 32, who made international news in 2014 after smoking a bong while sitting on the toilet when she was pregnant, assaulted the woman outside the Meriton Suites Broadbeach in March following an arranged meet-up.
CCTV footage showed Wilkie repeatedly punching and kicking the woman before pulling out the hammer and striking her multiple times on the body and then the head.
The woman collapsed to the ground as Wilkie fled the scene.
Appearing at the Southport Magistrates Court via video link on Friday, Wilkie pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm while armed, 9News reports.
Her defence lawyer told the court she endured a sad upbringing, which contributed to her behaviour.
Wilkie was sentenced to a year and a half in prison and will be eligible for parole in January.
Struggle Street star Billie Jo Wilkie, 32, has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison after she attacked another woman Broadbeach’s Meriton Suites hotel in March
The two had previously agreed to meet, but as soon as they met, Jo Wilkie launched a sudden attack.
Wilkie originally gained notoriety on the first season of controversial SBS TV documentary ‘Struggle Street’ where she was filmed smoking a bong while pregnant
She appeared alongside her partner Bob Quinn who died in June 2024
Wilkie originally gained notoriety on the first season of controversial SBS TV documentary ‘Struggle Street’ alongside her partner Bob Quinn.
The pair later told Daily Mail Australia after filming had wrapped that they were both ‘smashed’ on ice during production.
Wilkie caused an enormous outcry when she was filmed smoking a bong on the toilet while she was pregnant. She was also seen lighting a cigarette as she entered into labour later in the series.
Wilkie went to prison in 2015 after she was caught driving while disqualified four times, and twice in one day.
She was jailed again in 2018 for multiple charges relating to a shoplifting spree with another male friend, who was not Quinn, at Westfield Mt Druitt.
Wilkie and Quinn both managed to stay out of the public eye for the next four years before Quinn died on June 26 and Wilkie moved to Queensland.
