I don’t want to die like my friend Jade did

HER BATTLE WITH WOMB CANCER

past two years. But in July, during a trip to the UK, the bleeding started again. She collapsed in the shower but managed to call friend Kerry, 38, who drove her to hospital. Danniella said: “I called Kerry and said, ‘I think I’m going to die’. She said, ‘I’m on my way. Stay on the phone’. She had driven from her place in Sussex to my caravan in St Osyth in an hour-and-a-half to get me to hospital. “At first we thought it was septicaemia, but when we got to the hospital they mentioned my addiction. I couldn’t believe it and Kerry went mad. She said, ‘My mate is here and passing out and you are asking about her addiction’. “They then kept me in overnight under the mental health act. But they didn’t treat me for what I was coming in for.” Following her collapse, Danniella returned to Spain to speak with her doctor in San Pedro. She said: “That’s when I started to realise what was happening to my body. They said it’s cancerous behind the uterus wall and that’s why it’s not being detected. He said you will need a full hysterectomy and laser treatment. “So I came back to my doctor in Epping, Essex. She confirmed it and now they are removing my uterus, I’m having a hysterectomy. I know my mum got fantastic treatment at the Royal London years ago so I wanted to get my treatment by the NHS.” But Danniella admits she did not take the news well at first – and relapsed on a two-day cocaine bender. She said: “I went to Benidorm and then went to Marbella and got very drunk. I used cocaine, it’s the first thing I would pick up because I wanted to numb everything and get drunk. I got through two grams over two days. “I shouldn’t have done it and it’s not right, there is no excuse to take Class A drugs. At the end of the day I realise I am an addict and I was despairing. “I told Kai, my son, I was doing it and he said, ‘Mum, you need to come home now. This is a big deal’.” Danniella said she now wants to live for her family and overcome the disease. Wiping away tears, she said: “I’ve always said I’m not scared of dying but then when you get cancer you think ‘I don’t want to die’. It makes me think about my health and getting better. “Using drugs isn’t my priority, getting to my appointments is. If I do cocaine I feel so horrendous, my body can’t take it. I need to be strong and make my body fit and healthy. It’s the only way I will win.” halina.watts@mirror.co.uk Jade died of cancer in 2009