Danniella Westbrook reveals she relapsed on cocaine and tried to kill herself NINE times last year due to the agony of her botched dental implants
Former EastEnders actress Danniella admits she’s used cocaine to numb her tooth pain
DANNIELLA Westbrook has opened up about her shocking drugs relapse and admitted she tried to commit suicide nine times last year.
The actress 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.”
Danniella – whose cocaine addiction once saw her taking up to 11 packets of the Class A drug a day – admits using itwould make her body “go rigid” and left her unable to speak.
She added: “I feel trapped in my own body. If you’re a cocaine addict you’re sweaty, you’re jumpy, you’re paranoid, you’re horrible.
“[I was taking] nowhere near what I was doing before, but it was enough. It could have killed me."
The pain of her teeth, coupled with the relapse and the breakdown of her relationship with her toyboy boyfriend George Arnold, led Danniella to try and take her own life on a number of occasions.
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She said: “I didn’t want to live, I hated myself. Last year I tried to kill myself eight or nine times. It was after George and I broke up.
“Each time I’ve [tried] I’ve been high on drugs – it’s the sh***est place to be.”
The former EastEnders star, 43, hasn’t taken the drug since October but says every day is a struggle to stay clean.
She added: “I think, ‘All I’ve got to do is get up and I’ll stay alive. I don’t want my kids to lose me.’
“But other days I think: ‘I can’t get up, I can’t face the day.'”
Danniella has been trying to turn her life around this year after being made homeless at Christmas.
And things are already looking up, as The Sun Online revealed earlier this week she could be making a return to to the BBC1 soap.
A source told The Sun Online: “Danniella would be overjoyed to return to EastEnders and reprise her role as Sam Mitchell. It feels the perfect time.
“After Ronnie and Roxie’s deaths, Jack is at rock bottom on the show, so Sam returning would be the support he really needs to help him look after their son.”
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