The 31-year-old singer has battled with severe depression since childhood and recalled reaching her crisis point in her new memoir.Credit: Rex Features
She writes: "For as long as I can remember I had suffered from anxiety, nervousness, the big black cloud, stress, low moods, sadness.Frankie was eventually admitted to Nightingale Hospital in London, where "doctors put me on new medication — venlafaxine, clonazepam and diphenhydramine sleeping tablets in such high doses my first few days in hospital are a blur.
The star has previously told of her "guilt" over having depression at the height of her fame - revealing that her The Saturdays bandmates struggled to "understand" what she was going through.explained that she always struggled with her mental health, but it was when she was still miserable despite finding success as a music artist that made her realise that something was seriously wrong.
"I felt so guilty that I still didn't feel happy in a situation where I knew I should be, and I think that's what turned the whole thing on its head because I thought something's not right here. I kept everything such a secret, and once I'd been to hospital I didn't feel it was a lie anymore.
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