'I took every pill I had in the house': White Dee reveals she was almost driven to suicide as work dried up after her stint on Benefits Street

She shot to fame as the happy-go-lucky star of Benefits Street.

But despite stints on Celebrity Big Brother and a reported £1m fortune, reality star White Dee reveals she has since been pushed to the brink by a lack of work.

Dee - real name Deirdre Kelly - says her financial woes left her struggling to support her family and even drove her to attempt suicide.

'After Benefits Street everyone thought I was a millionaire,' she told the Sun. 'But the reality was very different.'

The 44-year-old told how the work started 'drying up' but, reluctant to go back on benefits, she was forced to ask friends if they had any work going.

She added that despite being 'constantly' worried about work she was reluctant to go back to the job centre and sign on.

'So I took out every pill I had in the house and got a bottle of vodka,' Dee recalled. 'I took one tablet and washed it down with a shot, then another one.'

After drinking different spirits, the star said she woke up and was immediately sick.

Dee, who says she is now on the road to recovery, added: 'I’ll never let myself get low enough to do something so stupid again.' 

Earlier this year the mother-of-two, originally from Winston Green, Birmingham, revealed she was on the verge of losing her house and going back to 'square one'

In a statement released to a local paper the star, who shot to fame in 2014, said she had found herself back at square one - but vowed she would not be going back to her roots with the lifestyle which made her famous when she appeared on the Channel 4 documentary.





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