Former EastEnders star Daniella Westbrook has revealed she's been left with a huge one inch hole in her head after gruelling facial reconstruction surgery in Turkey.
As we reported, the actress, 49, underwent an operation last month to fix her nose after her septum famously collapsed following years of abusing drugs.
She was hospitalised in Portugal just days after the "life changing" procedure and she shared pre-and post op snaps at the time, showing her swollen and bandaged face before she suffered another recovery set back that left her in "frightening pain".
Daniella had a surgical thread lift - which uses temporary stitches to lift the skin - and she also had fat transferred, but she claims her nose has been left looking the same despite getting more than 200 threads put into it and she's been left with "big lumps of fluid" all over her stomach, as writes the Mirror.
Daniella said: "I don’t know how it’s gone so wrong," she said. "I think it was a bit of miscommunication. I just wish I had never gone to Turkey to have it done. I will never have surgery abroad ever again.
“They were also supposed to reconstruct my nose, which is what I went there for, but they haven’t done that. They put 200 threads in my nose to straighten it, but it hasn’t worked. So I feel like I’ve wasted my time. The main thing I wanted doing was for my nose to be reconstructed.
"I’ve been waiting for nearly four years. So I’m going back to my surgeon in Liverpool to get my nose fixed. They’re going to rebuild all the bridge in my mouth and build up the front of my nose. I need to wait to heal first, but I’ll be getting it done when I can.”
Daniella went on to explain to OK! magazine that she was rushed to hospital after she landed in Portugal and her stitches burst and she 'lost sight in one eye'.
She said: “It wasn’t until I was washing my hair that I realised the stitches had come undone and I had an open wound.
“I literally have a hole on the side of my head. It’s about an inch long. I could actually put my finger in the hole, which was awful."
Daniella also claimed she feels like she now resembles a Shar Pei because her face was left so swollen, and she admitted she was unable to take any painkillers due to her past addiction issues.
Opening up about the 'unimaginable pain' of the whole ordeal, the star revealed she felt so scared she would die on the operating table, she wrote a will.
Admitting she feels like "curling up and dying", the actress said she now has 'bits of thread sticking out of the top of her head' and a bald patch after her head was shaved during surgery.
Claiming she 'hates what she sees', the mum-of-two admits she's been put off by going under the knife again, but says there is 'one last operation she needs to have'.
Daniella also has plans to get hitched to her boyfriend, revealing: “My fella David is back from jail soon, so I can’t wait to see him and I can’t wait to finally get married this year.
"This year has been so positive for me so far, so it’s a shame I’ve had this blip. But I will continue to be positive."
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