Danniella Westbrook Opens Up About Her Journey: 18 Months and Several Surgeries for Complete Facial Reconstruction

DANNIELLA Westbrook has revealed how many surgeries she needs to fully reconstruct her face.

, 52, has been undergoing a series of reconstructive surgeries after a decades-long battle with cocaine addiction left her face distorted.

Danniella Westbrook has revealed how many surgeries she needs to fully reconstruct her face Credit: Channel 5 Danniella will undergo more surgeries over the next 18 months Credit: Shutterstock

Speaking to on the show Vanessa on Monday, Danniella got candid about her the amount of surgery she needs over the next 18 months.

“Well, I’ve been through umpteen surgeries. I think I’m coming up to surgery number six at the moment.

“Five or six will be this Thursday. So it’s quite scary,” she explained to the host.

Danniella added: “I’ve had quite a few surgeries to rebuild and refix my face.

“I think since I got older, the osteoporosis has set in on my bones,” she noted, revealing how on one side of her face, she doesn’t have “any bone at all”.

“So they’ve got to rebuild all my bones. At the moment it’s filler, but they’ve really got to do a metal bone,” she explained.

Danniella said how at some point she will get a metal cheek bone fitted into her face, which will connect further inside to where the bone isn’t corroding away.

Vanessa was shocked, asking: “Oh goodness me. And how many different procedures is it going to take?”

Danniella revealed: “About another six to go I think after this one.”

Vanessa exclaimed: “Wow, you poor thing.”

“The next one they’re doing is like a hair lip reversal because my lip’s so far up now where it’s pulling up that way.

“So I’ve got to do that from the inside, cut a flap from the inside of my cheek, flip it round and over and then bring it in from there and put it through because I don’t want the scarring on the outside of my face,” Danniella explained.

She then revealed: “It’s another 18 months of surgery after surgery after surgery.

“About every two and a half, three months I’m in surgery.”

Elsewhere, Danniella heartbreakingly admitted that she “hates” looking in the mirror.

“I hate it. I hate looking in the mirror. I hate it. I hate looking,” she confessed on the show.

“Even now, I’ve just recently had to have a facelift to realign both sides of my face because they were so wonky.

“Just to get this nose in a certain position so we can start working on that, not for anything cosmetically beautifying, but no, I still hate looking in the mirror,” Danniella explained.

In February, Danniella flew out to Dubai for including a full £45,000 neck and face lift.

It followed a she’d had in the summer, with cartilage from her rib being taken out to fix her nose.

At the time, the star admitted she was hoping to rebuild her face so that she can kick start her acting career once again.

On the day of her surgery, she said: “Big day for me heading down for a very long surgery right now to rebuild my face.

“Then I can get back to work.”

Danniella played the role of Sam Mitchell on for eight non-consecutive years, with actress Kim Medcalf replacing her while she was off-screen.

She left the popular soap back in 2016 while trying to work on her mental health.

Danniella has since opened up about one day when she looks “like she’s supposed to” after her cosmetic work has finished.