Denise Van Outen’s voice box was surgically removed after horror Strictly Come Dancing accident

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supports HTML5 videoDenise Van Outen has revealed doctors had to remove her voice box to get to her spine in an operation following a horror fall in 2012.The former Big Breakfast presenter had competed in Strictly Come Dancing in 2012, and was performing strongly until, she says, she was dropped on her head during a rehearsal.Denise gravely injured her spine in the fall and had to undergo surgery, recalling this week that it was ‘so horrific’.The Steph’s Packed Lunch star appeared on Thursday’s Lorraine where she explained that her ‘neck went’ when she was dropped on her head and she had slipped three discs in her spinal cord.‘I did the final of Strictly Come Dancing with steroid injections,’ she recalled.

I don’t know how I got through it.’During the operation, ‘they had to go in through your throat in order to get to your spine’, she explained. ‘It was awful.’Denise continued: ‘I had major surgery and they had to take my voice box out.

They were worried I would never be able to sing again, because you can get hoarse voice after an operation like that.’Despite the horror fall and multiple slipped discs, Denise and partner James Jordan did massively well in the 2012 series, eventually finishing as runners-up.The Towie narrator said she hasn’t spoken openly about this before as she likes to keep some things private, however she is sharing more ahead of the release of her upcoming memoir.In the same interview with presenter Lorraine, Denise addressed her split from former fiance Eddie Boxshall and said she ‘wasn’t in a good place’ at the beginning.Denise alleged she found pictures and Instagram messages on Eddie’s iPad, detailing the affair in her new autobiography, A Bit Of Me: From Basildon To Broadway And Back.  ‘Among.