Danniella Westbrook shows a close-up of her ravaged nose after confessing to cocaine relapse while suffering from septicaemia
DANNIELLA Westbrook shows a close-up of her ravaged nose — after she confessed to a cocaine relapse while suffering from septicaemia.
The actress, 43, now has extensive scarring under her left nostril, as well as several teeth held in place by screws following a botched implant.
Danniella this week revealed an agonising battle with a mouth infection led her to fall off the wagon again.
She was left with her face badly “caving in” after the teeth implant last year and said: “I’m an addict and the wheels fell off.
“I was dabbing cocaine around my mouth and rubbing it in to numb the pain. I was hospitalised, I could have died. I had three operations in seven weeks.”
The ex-EastEnder’s admission comes after she was seen with a prominent bandage under her nose in November.
Pictures printed in The Sun on Sunday led to rumours her nose had collapsed again — 16 years after drug abuse caused her septum to cave in.
At the time, a spokeswoman insisted the recent damage was caused by the Celebrity Big Brother star’s battle with septicaemia.
But in an interview with Now magazine, Danniella admitted to using cocaine in October.
And she went on to reveal how the agony she suffered this year also led her to self-harm, confessing to “eight or nine” suicide bids in the course of 12 months.
Danniella now says her recovery is “hour by hour” but insists she is back on track.
Ten years after she joined Enders aged 16 she became Britain’s most shocking drug addict in 2000.
Photos revealed cocaine abuse had caused her septum — which separates the nostrils — to rot.
Told by doctors the habit would kill her, she got clean after a rehab stint in Arizona.
But in 2014, she tearfully confessed to The Sun on Sunday that she had relapsed and even had sex with a cocaine dealer in Magaluf.
Last year her son, Kai, 20, broke his silence to reveal he found his mum near death after a cocaine overdose when he was just four years old.
READ the full interview in this week’s issue of Now magazine, which is out now.