'I almost died four times' Corrie's Gemma Oaten opens about 'helpless' eating disorder

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"I spent a lot of my life in hospitals, eating disorder units and psychiatric units.“Some of these places were backwards in their approach.The psychiatric unit I was in when I was 11 was brutal."Gemma detailed that the way the unit worked was very much reward and punishment, with weight gain being awarded with television time.To get through it, she said: "I’d watch Coronation Street and escape into it and have that little bit of fire inside me thinking, ‘I can beat this eating disorder — I can get better and go for my dreams’."Gemma developed an eating disorder at the age of 10 following an episode of bullying at school.She continued: "There were moments when I was on my deathbed and I didn’t even know what day it was.“I felt helpless and.