I'm A Celeb's Tulisa Contostavlos reveals prescription drug dependency 'I thought I was going to die'
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Tulisa Contostavlos has told how she became hooked on prescription drugs during the covid lockdown - and felt like "she was going to die" when she tried to kick the habit. In one of her most revealing interviews ever, the singer and former X Factor judge, laid bare the problems she had for several Yeats until January this year and also revealed what really happened to her in the I'm A Celebrity jungle.
But before she entered the ITV show she has been fighting a secret dependency which threatened to take over her life. Tulisa said: "I was dependent without realising... I just went cold turkey for five days and I ended up in hospital because I didn't know, but my body had become dependent on it. I felt like I was having a heart attack. I had pains in my chest.... I just literally felt like I was going to die.".
The 36-year-old decided to speak out about the issue with podcaster Paul C Brunson for an in-depth discussion where she is given time to put her ups and downs in context. In the second part of the conversation which listeners can hear tomorrow, Tulisa says: "Sometimes you don't want to draw attention to things that people don't know about, but one thing I've found off the back of coming off of I’m A Celeb, that I'm sure about, is maybe so much the showbiz world isn't for me in the commercial sense, and the tits and teeth.
"But authenticity is and if I'm going to be in this industry and remain in it, I want to be really authentic and I want to speak words and do things that will make some kind of a difference. So I will tell you that running up to I'm A Celeb, during lockdown, I unfortunately became dependent on benzodiazepine. So we're talking zopiclones and diazepam(pills which help with sleep and anxiety).
