DANIELLE LLOYD ON BOOZE NIGHTMARE I drank myself to oblivion after 2nd baby... I pray it doesn’t happen again

HEAVILY pregnant TV star Danielle Lloyd lives with a daily fear – that she will once again hit the booze after giving birth.

The former glamour model suffered depression when her second son was born and drank herself into oblivion.

Now the ex-beauty queen fears history will repeat itself when she has her fourth baby. Danielle is due next month but the pregnancy has been highly stressful.

In 2011 Harry was born ten weeks early. He was only 4lb 4oz and spent seven weeks in hospital fighting for his life.

But Danielle, 33, spiralled into depression and tried to cope by drinking.

She said: “I pray it won’t happen again because I realise now my baby needed me and I wanted to take care of him.

“But instead I was drinking myself into oblivion to cope with the trauma and the guilt of what was happening.”

This baby will be her first with her electrician fiancé Michael O’Neill.

She had Archie, now six, Harry, five, and George, three, with ex-Spurs player Jamie O’Hara, 30. Their two- year marriage ended in divorce in 2014.

After Harry’s birth the former Miss GB nearly died when a blood clot was found behind her left breast implant.

She needed a six-pint blood transfusion in a life-saving operation.

But instead of turning to family and friends for support after the traumatic experience, Danielle sank a bottle of wine every night.

Zombie

She said: “I was in a really bad way. I couldn’t comprehend what was happening to Harry. I started drinking a lot to try and block it out.

“I felt detached from the baby. Numb, almost zombie like, I was non-existent. Every day was a struggle to get up.”

People around Danielle, who has dated a string of footballers, began noticing her intense unhappiness and she finally went to the doctor, who prescribed her antidepressants.

She said: “I’m in a much better place now. I’ll do everything in my power to stop it but I am afraid of going down that same road.”

But doctors have said her unborn child is now in a breech position, increasing the likelihood of another traumatic birth or the need for a caesarean unless it turns in the womb.

Danielle knows she has to be extra careful to avoid another post-birth dark episode. She said: “My therapist told me drinking alcohol is what many people turn to when they have depression.

“For me that’s something I need to remember. If I’m having a down day, don’t turn to have a glass of wine, do something different.

“Hopefully it’ll be different this time round. I don’t think you can say it will never come back because depression can grab hold of anybody at any time.

“All I can do is hope I don’t get it. If I do I know what to do. Go to my doctor, talk to Michael, talk to my family and tell them how I’m feeling.”

The star also plans to have her placenta turned into pills as these are said to help prevent postnatal depression.

But Danielle is also anxious that there may be complications and her new baby will be born too early.

She said: “Having a premature baby is horrible. It was the most terrifying experience of my life.”

The fact her unborn tot is in a breech position has increased Danielle’s worry. She said: “I’m still in fear until I go for a scan and the baby’s head is down. It just made me panic even more. “I just hope that the baby turns or they

can turn it before I go