FORMER EastEnders star Danniella Westbrook has told how she has been living in sheltered accommodation and relying on food banks.

FORMER EastEnders star Danniella Westbrook has told how she has been living in sheltered accommodation and relying on food banks.

After staying free from drugs for 13 years, the actress, 41, relapsed earlier this year.

She told This Morning that her life in recent months - beginning with the end of her marriage in January - had been "a car crash".

The mother-of-two said that her local council had placed her in "sheltered accommodation....which is like a bedsit".

She told the programme: "I've lost all my work. I was supposed to be in Torquay this Christmas in panto and as soon as I got exposed they called and said 'we can't possibly have her at our theatre'... and other work I had lined up I've lost, because I've relapsed."

Westbrook said: "I've been really very lucky with friends of mine that supply me with a food delivery to the house to help us out.

"And I have been to food banks this year because we haven't had any money. It's been very difficult."

Westbrook said that when friend and TV presenter Jeff Brazier heard about her plight, he contacted her and offered her life coaching.

"We've got everything down on paper and he's helped me," she said.