Danniella Westbrook

Danniella Westbrook

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderFemale
BirthdayNov. 5, 1973
BiographyDanniella Westbrook (born 5 November 1973) is an English actress and television personality. She is best known for playing Sam Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

Westbrook has also presented various television shows and was a contestant on the ITV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2003. She competed in the fifth series of Dancing on Ice in 2010, with US Pairs Skater Matthew Gonzalez, and finished fourth in the competition. In 2013 Westbrook appeared in the soap opera Hollyoaks as Trudy Ryan. In 2016 she took part in the seventeenth series of the reality show Celebrity Big Brother, in which she reached the final and finished in fifth place.

Westbrook had a much publicised cocaine addiction throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, which caused the complete erosion of her nasal septum. She has stated she began taking drugs at the age of 14 after suffering from child abuse. During her adult addiction to cocaine she was kidnapped and gang-raped by drug dealers. In 2016 she was sectioned by doctors after a suicide attempt. She has released two autobiographies, The Other Side of Nowhere (2006) and Faith, Hope and Clarity (2013).

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