Danniella Westbrook seen in bandages after surgeons use cartilage from her rib to fix her nose in life changing op
DANNIELLA Westbrook has undergone surgery to rebuild her face - with surgeons using cartilage from her rib to fix her nose.
The former EastEnders actress was seen with a bandage over her nose following the procedure.
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Danniella, 51, was supported by her boyfriend, bare knuckle fighter, Charlie Symonds after the op.
The surgery saw doctors removing cartilage from her rib to help perform a bone graft across the bridge of her nose.
She underwent the procedure on Thursday and told her fans: 'Big day for me heading down for a very long surgery right now to rebuild my face.
'Then I can get back to work.'
A source said: 'Danniella is recovering after the surgery and is being supported by Charlie.
'She is so grateful for the support from her fan base.'
Danniella got hooked on drugs aged 14 after shooting to fame as Sam Mitchell in the BBC One soap.
She said she wasted £250,000 on cocaine, was so badly addicted to the drug that she took five grams a day while pregnant with her son Kai.
Danniella abused the drug so badly that her septum - the cartilage that separates the two nostrils - fell out.
Former EastEnders star Danniella Westbrook in Turkey as she prepares to go under the knife for boob job
In 2023, Danniella opened up about her stint on Celebrity Big Brother in 2017 and said she was struggling with her addiction then.
She said: 'When I went on Big Brother my kids were thinking 'oh my God how's she going to be?'
'Because I went on there doing 11 grams of gear [cocaine] a day.'
She got clean before relapsing again a year later and said: 'I'm an addict and the wheels fell off. I was dabbing cocaine in my mouth and rubbing it around my gums to numb the pain.
'People think I was hoovering cocaine up my nose again but I wasn't. I was wiping it around my gums.'
In 2021, she faced another relapse but got clean again.
Since then Danniella has spent over £500,000 rebuilding her face and in 2023 travelled to Turkey for her fifth facial reconstruction surgery, undergoing a surgical thread lift.
The procedure involved them putting 1,200 threads into her face, and then liposuction to remove fat from her body and put it into her cheeks and lips to make her face more symmetrical.
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