The 'Straight Outta Compton' actor has reportedly checked into rehab to also treat his substance abuse issues after his friends staged an intervention.

• Oct 16, 2018

AceShowbiz - Former Disney star Orlando Brown has checked into a rehab facility following his brief stint behind bars.

The troubled "That's So Raven" actor spent most of September in prison after pleading no contest in two cases.

In the first case, for a drug possession count relating to a June arrest, he was handed a 15-day prison sentence, and for the second, he was ordered to serve 45 days in jail for allegedly changing the locks on his friend Danny Boy's Las Vegas restaurant without permission in early September. He was allowed to serve both sentences concurrently, and his release was set for 1 October.

Shortly after his release, his friends staged an intervention calling for him to go to rehab, and he is now in a facility seeking treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues, according to TMZ.com.

Danny Boy reportedly contacted Wendy Wheaton and Tommy Red, Hollywood producers with contacts in the rehab world, to get the plan in place. Brown's pals waited a few days after his erratic behavior at a San Fernando Valley hotel last week before staging the intervention.

In early September, Danny Boy called the police on Brown after allegedly catching him on surveillance cameras changing the locks on his restaurant. He had been letting the actor sleep there following his release from hospital.

Brown previously had a warrant out for his arrest in March, after he failed to appear in court to answer to domestic violence claims following a fight with his girlfriend in Torrance, California last year. As a result, bounty hunters orchestrated a raid on his Las Vegas home and dragged him outside in his underwear.

He was also arrested in 2011 for driving under the influence (DUI), and jailed for six months in 2013 after failing to show proof of his enrolment in an alcohol education programme and attendance at 10 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings as part of his DUI sentence.