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Sheridan Smith opens up about painful battle with prescription pills addiction
Sheridan Smith has revealed she was rushed to hospital and had five seizures after she stopped taking the anti-anxiety medication she had become addicted to.The actress has bounced back to become a mum and has filmed an ITV documentary on mental health struggles to help other women.Gavin and Stacey actress Sheridan, 39, was nominated for The C Word TV movie at the 2016 BAFTAs and "went off the deep end" after host Graham Norton cracked a joke about her pulling out of West End show Funny Girl.She says in Sheridan Smith: Becoming Mum that "Graham made a joke basically at my expense about me being a drunk"."I was so humiliated. What people didn’t know was that I had become addicted to anti-anxiety tablets.