THE REAL LAURENH TO DRINK ● Admits to taking prescription medication to battle her crippling anxiety and panic attacks ● Drama comes after ex fiancé Mark Wright and his wife Michelle Keegan fuel baby rumours ● Pals say she’s jealous of her ex and at an all-time low over not having the family she craves
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he bravely confessed to taking antidepressants last week, following a spate of panic attacks – revealing how she thought she was “going to die” when she was rushed to hospital on Boxing Day after quitting her medication and going cold turkey. Lauren Goodger’s admission came just weeks after Closer reported how the former TOWIE star, 33, was using booze to mask her heartache over her disastrous love life and failure to achieve her dreams of settling down and having a baby. Opening up about her terrifying ordeal last month, which she documented on Instagram – initially sparking rumours she was suffering from a bad hangover – she
said, “I thought I was dying. “I’ve never been one to take anti-depressants, but this particular psychiatrist put me on a strong dose for my anxiety, because my heart palpitations were out of control. PANIC ATTACKS
“I hated the thought of putting this medication in my body, so I just stopped one day, which you aren’t meant to do. Apparently, that triggered it. “I couldn’t breathe, my heart rate was sky high, my eyes were in the back of my head, I was shivering… I was in a terrible way.” And pals say Lauren’s failure to find long-term happiness and start a family since her 2011 split from ex-fiancé Mark Wright, 33 – her childhood sweetheart of 12 years, and now married to Michelle Keegan – is causing her continued emotional hurt. A source says, “Lauren’s been battling anxiety over her future and feels like her biological
