EX-Jenny Craig spokeswoman Kirstie Alley, who’s piled on the pounds — again — has apologized for reverting to her weighty ways.
“I really am sorry for the people I let down,” Alley, 58, said on yesterday’s “Oprah.”
“I really want to inspire again. The biggest, most painful thing for me is to have all these people I inspired and then I let them down.”
Oprah Winfrey devoted a good chunk of yesterday’s show to Alley, who e-mailed Oprah a few months back lamenting her weight gain.
Oprah devoted several shows to Alley’s original weight loss, during her Jenny Craig days — including a 2006 appearance when Alley strutted out wearing a bikini.
In 2007, she was replaced as the face of Jenny Craig by Valerie Bertinelli.
And that’s when the trouble started, she said.
“I do better when I have some pressure on me, and when I stopped being a spokesperson I wasn’t weighed anymore . . . and when I didn’t have that anymore . . . I didn’t weigh myself for a year and a half and I didn’t work out for a year and a half,” she said.
“I just sort of said, ‘I’m gonna cut myself some slack’ — big mistake.”
Alley said she turned her former workout room into a dining room and proceeded to pack on the pounds.
Alley didn’t say how much weight she’s gained back, but Winfrey asked if she felt disgusted by her appearance.
“I’ve hated myself, I’ve loathed myself and if I had a whip I would probably whip myself,” she said. “You know, you beat yourself up.
“It’s like a toddler. If they don’t have a game, the game becomes you and I’m sort of that way myself,” she said.
“I lost the game. I stopped being the spokesperson for these people . . . I lost the game and when I do that, I get bored and it turns in on me.”
Alley told Winfrey that her “aha” moment came when she was dating a guy who, her friends told her, was very promiscuous.
“That was my epiphany,” she said. “I went, this is me — I’m careless and irresponsible and it’s not like I didn’t know there aren’t consequences.
“Anything you can abuse I’ve sort of abused.”
The talk then turned to Bertinelli, 48, who showed off her dramatic weight loss on a recent cover of People magazine — posing in a bikini.
“I about died. I’m not kidding. It was like I was married to somebody and they left me . . . ” Alley said.
“It was dazzling. It wasn’t just good, it was like I was in ‘All About Eve’ and I’m Margo Channing and she’s Eve only she’s nice,” Alley said of Bertinelli.
“Her body rocks. I was like, oh my God. I stayed in bed for a day and I’ve looked at [the People cover] a thousand times.
“And I’m going, ‘Oh my God.’ But it inspired me.”
Alley also used her appearance to shill a new weight-loss program she’s developing.
“I am setting a goal — by November I have to look ripped,” she said.