Lisa Faulkner felt her world get "smaller and smaller" during her struggles with fertility and IVF treatment.

Lisa Faulkner

Lisa Faulkner

The former 'EastEnders' star adopted a daughter named Billie in 2008 with her ex-husband Chris Coghill, but has now revealed the decision to adopt came after a lengthy struggle with conceiving

Lisa had one of her fallopian tubes removed after a failed pregnancy, which reduced her chances of getting pregnant, and after turning to IVF treatment, she was eventually told by one doctor that they couldn't "do the magic".

Speaking on 'The Chris Evans Breakfast Show', Lisa said: "My whole world got smaller and smaller and was just about how I was going to have a baby, and why wasn't it working? We tried all IVF, we had an amazing doctor who eventually said, 'I can't do the magic, I'm letting you go'.

"That was the door that shut - I was on my knees saying, 'I don't know what to do now? It's a blow, having to tell people that it didn't work. And you're pumped on hormones that makes you lose grip on reality. You go crazy."

The beauty divorced Chris in 2011, and is now engaged to celebrity chef John Torode, whom she first met back in 2010 when Lisa won 'Celebrity MasterChef'.

Meanwhile, Lisa previously said she would consider returning to 'EastEnders' - where she played Fi Browning for a short time in 2017 - because she had a "lovely time" on the BBC soap.

She said: "It was such a great character that I couldn't refuse. I went in and I loved it ... I had such a lovely time doing it.

"If they did ever say, 'Would you like to come back and do a bit more Fi?' then I definitely wouldn't say no. It's such a lovely place to work and everyone was so nice."

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