Danniella Westbrook is worried she might have septicaemia again, after telling fans shes in unbearable pain.
The 44-year-old has spoken out about her health on social media, and admitted she might need to go into hospital.
Taking to Twitter, the star opened up on her condition telling her followers that she could cry.
The actress wrote: Super poorly face has swollen up so so bad and pain unbearable waiting to hear if I need to go back in hospital and praying its not septicaemia again … could cry [sic]
In 2000 the former soapie lost her septum due to excessive use of cocaine, and since then has been extremely open about sinking into a depression when she developed the bloodstream infection in the roof of her mouth.
She has previously said that the bones in her face are rotting away and claims that she cant bare to look at herself as her left side of her face is sunken due to bones decaying.
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In an interview with The Mirror she said: I just dont look like myself any more. Obviously Im going to age a lot faster anyway because of the drugs but I didnt need this as well. Some days I wake up and Im so swollen and other days it can look really sunken.
She then revealed that she has to drink 12 pints of milk a day in order to improve her bone density.
Talking about future surgery, the former EastEnders star said: They need to take a piece of bone out of my skull and put a plate into my face but theyve got nothing to stick the plate on at the minute because the bones not strong enough.
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They can start to rebuild it but Ill never look the same and it could make me look not very nice, even worse than I look now.
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