Danniella Westbrook looks unrecognisable in old snap with bruised and bloody face taken after she was involved in a terrifying car crash in 1998
Danniella Westbrook has shared an old snap of the horrific facial injuries she sustained after a terrifying car crash in 1998.
The EastEnders’ star, 49, sported painful looking bruises, cuts and a swollen eye after the accident.
She captioned it: ‘Had more lives than ya average Pussy cat #blessed.’
Ouch: Danniella Westbrook has shared an old snap of the horrific facial injuries she sustained after a terrifying car crash in 1998
Danniella was involved in the horrific head-on crash in 1998 when she was just 24 and afterwards had to have an operation to remove glass from her eyes.
The star – who was at the height of her fame as Sam in EastEnders at the time – wasn’t wearing a seatbelt when she hit the windscreen while her then boyfriend Robert Fernandez was driving.
Her son Kai, who was 14 months at the time, had also been in the car but was unhurt.
Scary: Danniella was involved in the horrific head-on crash in 1998 when she was just 24 and afterwards had to have an operation to remove glass from her eyes (pictured the same year before accident)
Tough: The star – who was at the height of her fame as Sam in EastEnders at the time – wasn’t wearing a seatbelt when she hit the windscreen while her then boyfriend Robert Fernandez was driving (pictured now)
It comes after Danniella shared a throwback snap taken many years ago during a trip to Las Vegas, looking worlds away from her usual self.
The actress was joined by her son Kai, now 26, and her daughter Jodie, 21, who were both children in the snap.
Danniella sported darker locks in the throwback photo along with a grey top and dark jeans.
Tagging Ceasar’s Palace in the post, she captioned the photo: ‘The power of 3’.
Family: It comes after Danniella shared a throwback snap taken many years ago during a trip to Las Vegas , looking worlds away from her usual self
It came after Danniella hinted at a split from her jailbird fiancé David after six years together with cryptic comment last Friday.
The soap star raised suspicion during a reading with psychic Louisa Earth Angel on an Instagram Live.
Danniella’s ‘toyboy’ David, 29 – who has never been pictured – is serving time in prison for counterfeit goods and engaging in a ‘fight with someone’, by her own admission.
When the medium mentioned prison during the reading, Danniella refused to talk about her partner, according to The Sun.
Louisa started off by hinted at bad blood as she predicted that Danniella could open up ‘old wounds’ soon.
Louisa said: ‘There is going to be a text from somebody in the next 14 days, which is going to open up old wounds for you. So you must handle that with apprehension. Okay, okay. apprehension, that’s all I’ll say.’
Relationship: It came after Danniella hinted at a split from her jailbird fiancé David after six years together with cryptic comment last Friday
She then went on ‘I keep looking at the programme Porridge. And I don’t know why but I need to give you that as well.’
Danniella then replied: ‘Prison probably, it was in prison wasn’t it Porridge?’
To which Louisa confirmed: ‘Yeah, Porridge is in prison.’
But Danniella appeared to not want to go into more detail when the psychic was giving the information.
Tough: Danniella’s ‘toyboy’ David, 29, – who has never been pictured – is serving time in prison for counterfeit goods and engaging in a ‘fight with someone’, by her own admission
The reader continued: ‘I do feel as though there’s some something connected, but I don’t feel you’re gonna go to prison. You’re okay. But I just feel as though you might hear from something to do with a with a prison?’
Danniella then mumbled: ‘Yeah. Well, yeah, well, that. Yeah, there is. That’s right.
Louisa reassuringly replied: ‘Yeah, well, that’s fine. But you don’t need to mention anything.’
Representatives for Danniella have been contacted by MailOnline for comment.
Couple?: The EastEnders’ star raised suspicion during a reading with psychic Louisa Earth Angel during an Instagram Live
It comes after in happier times the actress joked that her toyboy ‘keeps her young’ as she discussed their 20-year age gap.
The star told last year how there will be ‘many sleepless nights’ once her secret jailbird fiancé David is released from prison.
Speaking to the Daily Star last May, the soap actress said she is ‘living the dream’ by dating a younger man.
She said: ‘I’m just having a good time, I’m managed by young people – my children, my friends. They keep me edgy.
‘David is young and he’s 28, coming up for 29. David will be 30 when I’m 50. But I’m like the Barbara Windsor with Scott, she had a young one. Vanessa Feltz and Ben – they all have young other halves.
‘Everyone has toy boys. I’m living the dream, they keep me young.’
Danniella also proclaimed that she will be in the ‘best shape of [her] life at 50’ in both ‘body and mind’.
Actress: Danniella first appeared in EastEnders in 1990 at the age of 16 and has had several stints on the soap over the years (pictured 2009)
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