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'I HAVE PANIC ATTACKS'
Model Danielle Lloyd says she’s ‘too scared to leave the house’ after Jamie O’ Hara’s Celebrity Big Brother appearance ‘sparks online abuse’
DANIELLE Lloyd has told how she is suffering from panic attacks after her ex Jamie O’Hara’s appearance on Celebrity Big Brother sparked vicious online abuse.
The model said she is now scared to leave the house following attacks on social media — and has dropped its sale price so she can move out quickly.
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Ex-Spurs star Jamie, 30, told host Emma Willis on Channel 5 before entering the house: “I’m best known for my years at Tottenham and being married to Danielle Lloyd . . . didn’t go too well, that one.”
Inside just hours later he claimed he was paying a “fortune” in maintenance which was “draining” — and said he had been stupid with his spending, buying Danielle a Bentley.
But Danielle, 33, told The Sun on Sunday: “I had to stop watching the programme because it was causing me so much anxiety.
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My chest feels tight because of the stress
Danielle on her anxiety
"But then the hate messages towards me from the public started appearing on my social media.
“At first I replied to some of the comments about me being a gold digger to let people know it wasn’t true. But then I stopped because they just kept coming and getting worse.
“Some are really vile, calling me a slag and all sorts of swear words.
"I’m suffering from panic attacks and now I only go out when I have to because I’m frightened someone will recognise me and have a go.
“My chest feels really tight all the time because of the stress and anxiety and sometimes I can’t breathe.
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“Even the school run has become difficult because people are looking at me in the playground. I don’t deserve this kind of abuse. It isn’t fair.”
Danielle says the abuse has made her reduce the price of her family house, which has been up for sale for four years in the West Midlands.
The Liverpool-born ex-Miss England said: “It was on the market for £1.9million before Jamie and I split.
I was happy to stay here until it sold but now I just want to get out so I’ve dropped it to £1.6m.”
She first met Jamie in a gym in London in 2009 when he played for Spurs — and says they “quickly got real close”.
Danielle recalled: “At the time, he was still a successful footballer and I was a successful model.
“I was earning about £25,000 a week compared to Jamie’s £7,000 a week. I had my own house in London and I’d bought myself a Bentley.
“The Range Rover I drive now, I bought with my own money. I’ve always paid my own way.
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Even the school run has become difficult
Danielle talking about the abuse she receives
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"I’ve just enrolled on a course to study interior design and photography. I know the modelling won’t last forever.”
Danielle said of her former hubby: “I thought we’d be together forever.
“We’d always say we’d never cheat on each other. I believed him totally.
"I would get the odd nasty message on Twitter from girls saying he had been unfaithful but I thought they were just being spiteful.”
But Jamie, 30, started to spend time away.
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She said: “We didn’t argue back then but he’d suddenly, totally unprompted, say, ‘I’m going to stay in a hotel for a week to get my head straight’.
I thought I was difficult to live with because I was pregnant and he was stressed being a pro-footballer, but I did still wonder why he was doing it.”
Despite this their relationship stayed strong and they wed at a plush ceremony in London in 2012.
However reports about Jamie’s cheating started to appear.
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Some comments are really vile calling me a slag
Danielle on the backlash she has received
Sarah Bailey, 33, told The Sun how she romped with the Wolves midfielder in LA in February 2014.
Jamie told her he was divorced but she later googled him and found out he was still married.
That June a video appeared to show Jamie push Danielle during a row in Las Vegas.
The following month it was claimed he bedded another woman who said: “He told me they weren’t together.”
That August he was spotted with apparent lipstick marks on his face while Danielle was out of the country.
The Sun on Sunday can reveal that he has admitted cheating on her ten times.
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Danielle also suffered post-natal depression and once said of Jamie: “I think he had a bit of depression too as he had an injured back.”
Jamie himself once admitted: “If I’m not playing, I get depressed.”
We can also reveal Jamie had a non-molestation order placed on him by Danielle in January 2015.
Police were called after a violent row — leading to Jamie being banned from visiting Danielle for six months.
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Shortly after she found love with electrician Michael O’Neill, 29, and the couple are now engaged.
In June last year a fight with Jamie led to Michael being arrested but no charges were brought.
A second non-molestation order was also imposed last August.
Danielle said: “I have always stayed upbeat — until now.
"There have been things over the years that have left me heartbroken, distraught, upset.
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“I started to question everything I was told during my marriage and it unnerved me, it caused me stress.
"But this has really floored me. All the abuse. It is too much.
“Celebrity Big Brother is a game, certain things are picked up and expanded upon.
"People should realise that instead of attacking me for what somebody has said.
“I wished Jamie good luck before he went in there because I want him to succeed.
“I don’t know why everybody is turning on me. I am the one paying the price.
“I wanted to move on from everything. Now it feels as though all my old wounds have been opened up.”
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He revealed he would like to have sex with US model Jasmine Waltz, and kissed her after a few drinks, before she ended up cuddling in bed with Calum Best.
Jamie consoled himself by getting into bed with Bianca Gascoigne, only for Calum to make a play for her as well.
Model Nicola McLean, married to his footie pal Tom Williams, also revealed she once kissed Jamie, recently released by League One side Gillingham.
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