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has confessed that she hates her new post-surgery face after a reconstruction operation in Turkey left her with a one-inch hole in her head.
The star, 49, went under the knife last month in a bid to reconstruct her nose after its septum collapsed following years of drug abuse.
But the actress has admitted she “can’t believe what’s been done to her” after the surgery.
She had a surgical thread lift - a procedure where temporary stitches are used to produce a lift in the skin - and fat transfer in a bid to fix a past botched surgery.
The op left her with a one-inch hole in her head and she’s now opened up about her “nightmare”.
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The actress has admitted she “can’t believe what’s been done to her” (Instagram/danniellawestbrook_73)Sharing a photo of her face from months ago with her Instagram followers, Danniella captioned it: "Three months ago I looked like this and thought I looked awful. I'd give my world to look like this again...
"I can't believe what's been done to me with this surgery."
She’d hoped to have her nose rebuilt after years of cocaine addition left her with a collapsed septum.
But the operation turned into the star’s worst nightmare as it left her with “big lumps of fluid over her belly”.
“I don’t know how it’s gone so wrong," she said previously. "I think it was a bit of miscommunication. I just wish I had never gone to Turkey to have it done. I will never have surgery abroad ever again."
After landing in Portugal following her operation, Danniella was rushed to hospital when her stitches burst and she “lost sight in one eye”.
She explained to OK! magazine: “It wasn’t until I was washing my hair that I realised the stitches had come undone and I had an open wound."
Danniella is planning to having reconstruction surgery in the UK (danniellawestbrook_73/Instagram)“I literally have a hole on the side of my head. It’s about an inch long. I could actually put my finger in the hole, which was awful."
Claiming she looked like a Shar Pei because her face was so swollen, Danniella also said she wasn't able to take any painkillers due to her past cocaine addiction.
Opening up about the “unimaginable pain” of the whole ordeal, the star previously revealed she felt so scared she would die on the operating table, she wrote a will.
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Admitting she felt like "curling up and dying", the actress said she has 'bits of thread sticking out of the top of her head' and a bald patch after her head was shaved during surgery.
Claiming she “hates what she sees”, the mum-of-two admitted she's been put off by going under the knife again, but says there is “one last operation she needs to have”.
The actress hopes to have the bridge of her nose reconstructed in the Liverpool, saying as soon as she's healed, she'll “see what can be done”.