Danniella Westbrook has revealed she is ‘going back’ to her original doctor in the UK and will pay £500,000 for corrective surgery after her ‘nightmare’ surgery in Turkey.
The former EastEnders star, 49, recently revealed she was left screaming in pain during a terrifying operation on her face by a doctor in the Middle Eastern country.
She underwent the facial reconstruction surgery to save her collapsing face and has since admitted that she hates the results.
But now she’s back to square one, having previously received half a million pounds worth of corrective surgery on the NHS.
While the former Celebrity Big Brother star turned down treatment to go abroad, she’s now going back to her original plan – only this time she’s promised to foot the bill herself.
No choice: Danniella Westbrook has revealed that after her ‘nightmare’ surgery in Turkey, she’s ‘going back’ to her original doctor in the UK and paying £500,000 for corrective surgery
Speak against The sun, she revealed: ‘I did it in Liverpool with a professor there. I should have stayed with him, but a friend convinced me to go to Turkey. It’s my own stupid fault.
“I’ll go back to him, but I’m going to pay for it this time. I quoted £500,000 before, I don’t care what it is. If I don’t have it done, the palate collapses in the back of my mouth and I choke to death.
‘When I went to Turkey, I could have died. I could have died if someone messed it up even more. I’m not the youngest person in the world, nor have I been the healthiest.’
Danniella – whose wounds have been sutured with non-dissolvable fishing thread – previously described the gruesome procedure.
She claimed that the painful operation she had waited years for was performed without anesthesia.
Danniella claimed that the surgeon even slapped her during the operation, and that her phone was confiscated by an assistant when she begged him to stop.
She said, “He went to me, “Stop crying, stop crying.” I said, “I’m in a lot of pain. Please, please. I’m scared. I’m in a lot of pain. I didn’t know this was going to happen.” It was really frightening’
Terrifying: The former EastEnders star, 49, recently revealed she was left screaming in pain during a terrifying operation on her face by a doctor in the Middle Eastern country
She then began to panic and kept telling the rogue doctor that she was in severe pain, but she said he told her, “Stop moving, I’m telling you, stop moving.”
Danniella claimed the surgeon “punched me on the other side of the face during surgery.”
Feeling let down, the star admitted she was looking for a surgeon who can perform the “right surgery.”
She added, “My gums are receding. Eventually I will choke. I don’t need a thread lift, this isn’t cosmetic, I need a medical procedure.’
Despite undergoing another procedure in Turkey to save her collapsed face, Danniella has since admitted that she hates her new face.
Danniella had a thread lift, liposuction in her cheeks and lips, fat grafting on her chin and her jawline etched after her septum collapsed from excessive drug use in 2002.
On Instagram, the actress shared a photo of herself taken before surgery and said she couldn’t believe what was done to her.
She wrote, “Three months ago I looked like this and thought I looked awful. I’d give my world to look like this again…
“I can’t believe what was done to me by this operation.”
Since her procedure, Danniella wore thick bandages around her head and nose.
Former self: At the height of her use, she was reported to use up to five grams of cocaine a day, wasting nearly £250,000 on the drug (pictured in 1996)
The television personality is shocked after she was hospitalized again hours after landing in Portugal due to a health hazard.
She wrote on her Instagram Stories: “Only I could land back in Portugal after surgery and then end up in hospital.
“The pain I have experienced is unreal, the most terrifying few days. Literally need it like a hole in your head.”
When Danniella first woke up after the lengthy procedure, she said she looked “like she’d done 10 rounds with Tyson Fury.”
She had wanted the reconstruction for seven years, but couldn’t find a surgeon who would operate because her septum had completely collapsed.
She told The Sun: ‘I was very scared. My mother and my son Kai were constantly on the phone – I made a will before I left and my son is the executor of it.
‘But luckily I’m still here and I came through the other side. Someone is looking over me. I looked like I went 10 rounds with Tyson Fury.
“But the swelling actually subsided very quickly. I am already happy with the result’
Danniella previously underwent a rib insertion procedure in 2018 after osteoporosis rotted away her cheekbones and gums and, having received lip filler and Botox for the past year, in addition to surgery on her face, she hopes to get back to her best.
The actress’s struggles with drugs have been widely publicized and her nose was famously reconstructed after her septum collapsed from excessive cocaine use in 2002.
At the height of her use, she reportedly used up to five grams of cocaine a day, wasting nearly £250,000 on the drug.