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  • Jennifer Westfeldt Kept ‘Mad Men’s’ Jon Hamm in Line

    Jennifer Westfeldt has long been Mad Men star Jon Hamm’s girlfriend. What many likely didn’t know, however, is that she has long kept the actor in line as well.

    A source recently told People magazine how Jennifer Westfeldt has brought him much stability.

    “He needs [Jennifer],” the source explained. “He has to have that in his life.”

    Westfeldt recently weighed in during a GQ interview about Jon Hamm with regard to the price a character like Don Draper has cost the actor.

    “It’s a confusing juxtaposition,” Jennifer Westfeldt said. “I think the darkness of Don has weighed heavily on Jon, despite it being the role of a lifetime and the opportunity that gave him the career of his dreams.”

    Jon Hamm, as most people know by now, sought treatment last month for alcoholism. His issues can’t all be blamed on Don Draper, however, and no doubt include losing his mom at the age of ten and his estranged father when he was just 20. And although people survive far worse than what Jon Hamm has experienced in his lifetime, some succumb more easily to the lure of drugs or drink than others.

    Annett Wolf is Hamm’s publicist. She issued a statement earlier this week explaining the actor’s rehab stint, and saying that Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt have asked “for privacy and sensitivity going forward.”

    Do you suppose watching his character drink so frequently prompted Jon Hamm to tip the bottle more often than he would have had he not played the Mad Men role?

    Hamm has definitely been blessed with the presence of Jennifer Westfeldt in his life. Without someone to keep him in line, who knows how much farther down the road of despair he might have traveled?

  • Jennifer Westfeldt Is Jon Hamm’s Rock

    Jennifer Westfeldt has been Jon Hamm’s greatest supporter after completing a stint in rehab for alcohol addiction.

    As the longtime girlfriend of the Mad Men star, Jennifer Westfeldt knows better than anyone the struggles that have plagued Jon Hamm through the years.

    According to a source for People magazine, Jennifer Westfeldt, 45, has also helped “keep him in line.”

    “He needs [Jennifer],” said the source. “He has to have that in his life.”

    The source of many of Jon Hamm’s struggles stem from the loss of his parents, who divorced when he was a toddler.

    His mother died when he was only 10 and his father when he was 20.

    “He lost his mother at a really young age and grew up without that type of figure in his life,” said the source.

    In 2010, Jon Hamm opened up about the loss of his father.

    “I was … unmoored by that,” he told The Observer about his father’s death. Left “in bad shape,” Hamm turned to therapy and antidepressants to beat the illness.

    “It gives you another perspective when you are so lost in your own spiral,” he said. “It helps.”

    Jennifer Westfeldt claims the dark character Jon Hamm plays on Mad Men, Don Draper, has affected real life.

    “It’s a confusing juxtaposition,” Jennifer Westfeldt told GQ in the magazine’s latest cover story, which features Hamm. “I think the darkness of Don has weighed heavily on Jon, despite it being the role of a lifetime and the opportunity that gave him the career of his dreams.”

    Mad Men‘s seventh season concludes April 5 on AMC.

  • Jennifer Westfeldt On Jon Hamm’s Demons

    Jennifer Westfeldt On Jon Hamm’s Demons

    Jennifer Westfeldt may be one of the few people who knows firsthand how much Jon Hamm struggles everyday.

    In fact, Jennifer Westfeldt, as Hamm’s longtime girlfriend, was one of only a handful who knew ahead of time that Jon Hamm was going into rehab last month.

    Hamm’s publicist, Annett Wolf, said in a statement on Tuesday that Jon Hamm, with the support of Jennifer Westfeldt, had quietly completed a 30-day stint in rehab.

    The statement went on to say that Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt have asked “for privacy and sensitivity going forward.”

    Jon Hamm is a lucky man to have an undertanding woman like Jennifer Westfeldt by his side as he battles his demons.

    Jennifer Westfeldt seems to think that Jon Hamm has a lot in common with his on-screen persona, Don Draper.

    She said, “It’s a confusing juxtaposition. I think the darkness of Don has weighed heavily on Jon, despite it being the role of a lifetime and the opportunity that gave him the career of his dreams.”

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    Jennifer Westfeldt also likely understands where Jon Hamm’s struggles come from.

    Jon Hamm, who lost his mother at age 10 to stomach cancer, again suffered an extreme loss when he was just 20 and his father passed away.

    “I was … unmoored by that. I struggled with chronic depression. I was in bad shape,” he said.

    Jon Hamm managed to get through the crisis with a little help from his friends.

    He said he “was very fortunate to have really good friends in my life whose parents sort of rallied.”

    The help he received from them, as well as antidepressants, therapy, and the love and support of Jennifer Westfeldt, proved invaluable.

    He said, “You can change your brain chemistry enough to think: ‘I want to get up in the morning; I don’t want to sleep until four in the afternoon. I want to get up and … go to work and …’ Reset the auto-meter, kick-start the engine!”

    Hopefully Jon Hamm got the help he needs and can get a new start with Jennifer Westfeldt by his side.