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I was doing 11 grams of cocaine a day when I went on Big Brother – my family were terrified, says EastEnders legend
A TOP EastEnders actress has opened up on the extent of her cocaine battle in 2016 for the first time.
The former EastEnders favourite, 49, told how she was doing "11 bags a day" until she stepped foot in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
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Danniella Westbrook has been hooked on drugs since she was 14 after shooting to fame as Sam Mitchell in the BBC One soap.
The soap star, who has wasted £250,000 on cocaine, was so badly addicted to the drug that she took 5g a day while pregnant with her son Kai.
Danniella abused the drug so badly that her septum - the cartilage that separates the two nostrils - fell out.
Now she has opened up to the podcast and confessed "no one" previously knew the extent of her addiction at the time.
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The mum-of-two admitted: "I do feel for my kids.
"When I went on Big Brother my kids were thinking 'oh my God how's she going to be?'
"Because I went on there doing 11 grams of gear [cocaine] a day.
"I ain't going to lie, no one knows that.
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"I was doing 11 bags of gear a day then they walked me through that f**king door and I went ..."
She added: "And my son and everyone went 'oh God.'"
Just a year after her Channel 4 stint in 2017, Danniella revealed how she had again relapsed on cocaine.
She had been using cocaine to try and numb the constant pain of her botched dental implants.
In a candid interview with , Danniella said: “I’m an addict and the wheels fell off. I was dabbing cocaine in my mouth and rubbing it around my gums to numb the pain.
“People think I was hoovering cocaine up my nose again but I wasn’t. I was wiping it around my gums.”
She also faced a drug setback in 2019 but got clean after fearing that just one more line could kill her.
Just two years ago, in 2021, she faced another relapse and told how she was seeking help.
She admitted she was searching for a natural high and had quit champagne and cocaine.
Danniella went on to say she wanted a “natural buzz” as she revealed she was going back to narcotic anonymous in a bid to get back on track, before offering support to anyone else going through the same thing.
This year, she has undergone surgery to fix her face after years of drug abuse.
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She has also opted for a glam makeover and looked almost unrecognisable as she revealed her new hair-do on social media.
Earlier this month, Danniella also flashed the results of her new boob job on a sun-soaked holiday.
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