'Girlfriends' star Reggie Hayes was on top of the world. Now the actor is struggling to find work and battling congestive heart failure
Twenty years ago "Girlfriends" premiered on UPN (which later became The CW) and earlier this month the sitcom became available to stream on Netflix, inspiring an enthusiastic rewatch of the classic show. What most people didn't know is that one of its stars, Reggie Hayes, had just experienced a serious health scare.
The show that put Tracee Ellis Ross on the map, "Girlfriends" ran from 2000-2008 and it centers around the lives and loves of four Black women, played by Ross, Golden Brooks, Jill Marie Jones and Persia White. Playing their steadfast pal (who would occasionally become a bit more) is Hayes as William Jerrowme Dent, Esq.
On Sept. 18, Hayes was admitted to the hospital. "We're still not sure what's going on, I gotta take more tests," he said by phone earlier this week. "But I have congestive heart failure and it was difficult to breathe. Here in LA, the sky has been orange with smoke (because of wildfires) and it was just really terrible. So I was in the hospital
