“I Couldn’t Leave My House for Six Months”
“I’ve been through a rape,” she said, “and electroshock therapy is worse. When it was over, I couldn’t leave my house for six months. I couldn’t drive my car for eight months.” As she described it, she lost her self-confidence, energy and memory to electric shock. With the memory loss came inability to recall lines for acting roles, to play music or to sing. Instead of making $5,000 a day acting or modeling, she was unable to work.
She attempted suicide and a friend kept watch over her 24 hours a day to keep her alive. Eventually she moved to Houston to live with relatives, and applied for disability payments from Social Security, which provided $525 a month.
Some time later, she began to research the possibility of taking action against those who had drugged and shocked her in hopes of preventing others from similarly becoming victims. She found a newspaper article describing harm caused by electric shock which quoted Jerry Boswell, executive director of the Texas chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an organization established by the Church of Scientology in 1969 to investigate and expose criminal and abusive practices by psychiatrists. With her father, she contacted Boswell’s office in Austin.
After being informed of Holliday’s situation, Boswell accompanied her to Los Angeles, where they discussed her case with DEA officials investigating the practice of Nomi Fredrick following the overdose deaths of Don Simpson and Steven Ammerman. Holliday was also interviewed by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, the Los Angeles Police Department and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Hardiman, who heads the prescription drug probe of Fredrick.
DEA Special Agent Abel Reynoso said, “The investigation is still on course. My people are still looking at it.” According to a source, Holliday’s case is part of the federal probe.
In October 1996, Holliday’s lawsuit was filed against psychiatrists Nomi Fredrick and Timothy Hayes, gynecologist Rodney Francis and St. John’s Hospital for professional negligence and battery. The case has not yet gone to trial.
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