Generous Heather Locklear, 62, hands out cash to panhandler as she and her fiancé Chris Heisser drive home in Los Angeles

She’s had her share of troubles and Heather Locklear has proven that she’s more than happy to help anyone else in trouble.

The Melrose Place alum rolled down her window and handed over a few bills as she and fiancé Chris Heisser drove through her Los Angeles neighborhood this week to help a beggar begging for money.

She also gave him a few supportive words as the couple stopped at the traffic lights.

Possibly it was his neon pink sign with the words “Only God will save his people” scrawled on it in capital letters that attracted the actress.

Heather hands the beggar the money as her fiancé Chris Heisser stopped at a traffic light in Thousand Oaks, California

She had some comforting words for the man as she handed him the money

Locklear and Heisser, both 62, were on their way home after visiting friends Tuesday when they made the unscheduled stop to help.

Without make-up and looks healthy and well-groomed. Heather was comfortably dressed in a soft pink lounge suit and matching hat and carried a Louis Vuitton bag.

The stop at traffic lights in Thousand Oaks marked the first time the former high school sweethearts were seen together in more than six months.

Heather, who has admitted to having problems with alcohol and pills, has been to rehab at least 20 times over the years so can recognize when someone might need some help.

She has been doing better since she reconnected with former motocross rider Heisser. The couple got engaged just as the coronavirus pandemic began in April 2020.

But concerns about Heather – who also starred in TV classics Dynasty and TJ Hooker – were raised last July when, looking disheveled, she was seen standing on a narrow edge of a Malibu office building wearing flip-flops and holding onto a pillar had to cling. For support.

Video showed her looking bewildered as she sat at the top of the stairs, reading from her personal diary and talking to herself.

At one point she was seen angrily pointing at something in the diary and gesticulating wildly before shoving it firmly back into her bag.

She sat at the top of the stairs for a long period of self-reflection before running over to Heisser, who was waiting for her in their car.

Heather has had her own problems with about twenty stints in rehab, so she has compassion for anyone who is down on their luck

Locklear and Heisser, both 62, were high school sweethearts but lost touch for 40 years. During that time, she married rockers Tommy Lee and Richie Sambora.

The beggar was carrying a large neon pink sign that read ‘Only God will save his people’

A source confirmed to DailyMail.com that she had a relapse and was drinking her favorite tequila again

But since that alarming incident, Heather has looked healthy – and that’s how she looked when she handed the money to the homeless man.

Locklear and Heisser, also 62, first dated in the late 1970s when they were both students at Newbury Park High School.

But they lost touch for 40 years and Heather subsequently married rockers Tommy Lee from 1986-1993 and Richie Sambora from 1994-2007, with whom she has a daughter, Ava, now 26.

Ava got engaged to Tyler Farrar, her boyfriend of four years, last weekend.

It’s the steadfast support of her lover and daughter that has helped Heather overcome her problems, which were first reported after she was arrested for suspected drunk driving shortly after her divorce from Bon Jovi guitarist Sambora.

Although tests confirmed her blood alcohol level was below the legal limit, authorities believed that prescription medications she was taking for her anxiety and depression had caused her erratic driving.

The actress exhibited erratic behavior and was seen walking along a ledge and talking to herself while appearing in distress during a visit to an office building last summer

The Melrose Place alum opted to have fiancé Chris Heisser wait in his car and was spotted balancing along the edge of the building last year

Heather has had the support of fiancé Heisser and her daughter Avas, 26, who got engaged to boyfriend of four years, Tyler Farrar, last weekend

Heather first came into the spotlight with her role as Sammy Jo Carrington in the 1980s soap Dynasty (left). The following decade she played the role of Amanda in Melrose Place

Over the next decade, police were called to Heather’s home several times, and she would face eight different charges after allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers who tried to calm her down.

She ultimately pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to three years’ probation.

In February 2018, she was arrested for domestic violence and assault on a police officer after she allegedly kicked three law enforcement officers as they tried to calm her down during an argument between her and Heisser.

In April the following year she crashed her Porsche and after being convicted of nine crimes, the court ordered her to undergo rehabilitation.

Locklear was a major TV product in the 1980s and 1990s. She first made it big as Sammy Jo, Blake Carrington’s daughter-in-law on Dynasty. She then played Officer Stacy Sheridan in the police drama TJ Hooker before landing her signature role as manipulative Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place.

She was later involved in the sitcom Spin City as a campaign manager for Barry Bostwick’s mayor of New York when he decided to run for senator.

She was nominated for six Golden Globes – four for Melrose Place and two for Spin City – without winning a single one.