Story highlights London wrote an essay for Refinery 29She had financial issues after surgery(CNN) It turns out 2017 was a rough one for Stacy London. London said it all began when she was without a job, following the end of her show "Love, Lust or Run." "That year was always intended to be a kind of sabbatical," she wrote. "But by the end of it, it was clear that after four years of chronic back pain, staved off with steroid shots, I was going to need surgery. And not just any surgery, very expensive spinal surgery."

Source: CNN February 07, 2018 17:53 UTC