Following brief stints in 2015 and 2016, Nicole Bass has returned to TOWIE as a fully-fledged cast member. Although she looks in good health on screen, the 28-year-old star has been battling severe anxiety for the past two years.
In our exclusive chat, Nicole reveals her illness was triggered by a painful split from her ex Sam Mucklow in 2018. He then got together with her pal Shelby Tribble just months later.
Until now she has never spoken about the debilitating panic attacks that prevented her from leaving her house for three months and caused her weight to drop to 6st. “I was dangerously thin and all of my bones were jutting out,” she says.
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