clubs and everyone was doing coke and it was glamorous – except obviously, it wasn't at all. I was just very young, very stupid and very easily led...I think there should be someone at EastEnders to say to young people when they come in, 'Look, your life is about to change, you're going to be invited places, and you'll be offered drugs.' Someone who can tell them what sort of people are about, and what sort of papers, and how quickly what you've worked for all those years can be gone.' Westbrook has estimated that she has spent over £250,000 on drugs, used five grams of cocaine every day throughout her first pregnancy, and has admitted that during her lowest ebb she attempted suicide several times. In May 2000, Westbrook was photographed at the British Soap Awards, where an image of her missing columella (the skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils) was given to a series of tabloid newspapers, unveiling her secret and highlighting her improper drug use. Westbrook was checked into rehab and, six months later, she appeared on the Channel 4 programme The Priory with the claim that she was clean and had been free from drugs for months. However, hosts Jamie Theakston and Zoë Ball struggled to get coherent answers from Westbrook, who was clearly under the influence of drugs despite her claims of abstinence. Reflecting back on the event in 2002, Westbrook commented "I said I was clean, but it was obvious I wasn't. I looked about 50, and my voice was shaky. I should never have been allowed on. They wanted to laugh at me, rip me apart. I despise that sort of thing, but it did me the world of good because watching it I realised, 'I'm so ill.' When it came to the crunch I thought, 'Hang on. I don't want to die.'" She re-entered rehab to try to kick her drug habit. Westbrook has since undergone reconstructive surgery on her nose, to replace her eroded septum and columella. In 2013, Westbrook revealed in an interview that she had been kidnapped and gang-raped by drug dealers during the period she was addicted. In 2019, Westbrook appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show to talk about her continued drug use, and it was arranged for her to enter drug rehabilitation. Westbrook said on Channel 5's Jeremy Vine that Kyle's intervention