How did Stallone's movie star wife Brigitte Nielsen end up as a drunk in the park?

Fall from grace: Actress Brigitte Nielsen was seen rolling around and drinking in a park in Los Angeles, California.

As the vehicle for an unlikely career resurrection, the  inauspiciously titled movie Skinny Dip is hardly likely to catapult Brigitte Nielsen back into the big league.

The upcoming low-budget film — about a woman who goes on a shotgun spree, killing a group of male tormenters — features the equally unpromising tagline: ‘They took her bikini. They took her virginity. She took her revenge.’

Actress Miss Nielsen, who has a minor role, says she defied the threat of kidnap from drugs gangs while filming in crime-torn Colombia.

Perhaps it goes without saying that a Palme d’Or award at the next Cannes Film Festival is hardly on the cards. But then, Brigitte, 49, is  brutally aware that beggars can’t be choosers.

And for now, the Danish-born actress, the ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone, has more pressing concerns than her once glittering, but long since washed-up, movie career.

Her continuing personal disintegration was starkly — and tragically — illustrated this week in pictures of her drunk and confused in broad daylight in a Los Angeles park.