Michelle Collins was once "really sick" after accidentally poisoning herself by cooking and eating daffodils - after she mistook them for spring onions.
Michelle Collins
The former 'EastEnders' actress made a stir fry with what she thought was a spring onion, only to shockingly realise she had in fact chopped up one of the predominantly spring-flowering plants and chucked it into her dinner.
The 58-year-old star wrote on Instagram: "I know everyone thought I was #crazy when I said I ate #daffodils but it’s quite easy to do ! #poisonous #surviver . I was cooking a stir fry and cut up the daffodil thinking it was spring onion tasted it then threw it away and was really Sick !!!! Twice ! (sic)"
Fortunately for Michelle - who played Cindy Beale in the BBC One soap from 1988 to 1998 - she was "fine" after vomiting a few times.
She added: "Couldn’t get my head off the pillow all night ! After that felt fine ! (sic)"
Last month, Michelle - who has also played Stella Price in ITV's 'Coronation Street' - admitted she was "shocked" and "disturbed" by how many people are suffering from an eating disorder.
The former cobbles star - who has previously struggled with both anorexia and bulimia - wrote on Instagram: "I have been really #shocked and #disturbed about how many people , #young #older #male #female #mothers #fathers #brothers #daughters #bame #blacklivesmatter #transgender #lgbtq are suffering from #eatingdisorder . It doesn’t #discriminate believe me . I have been there . (sic)"
Michelle also shared an extract from her autobiography 'This Is Me', in which she penned a chapter about suffering from eating disorders, and she has called for people to "look out for the signs".
She added: "I was going through my #bookshelf and found my #autobiography I wrote a whole Chapter about it called #TheSecret . #lockdown can be cruel . Please look out for the signs and #becareful its becoming a big problem . It is not a #deathsentence and can be #cured #managed believe me I got through it to tell the story .#staysafe #bekind #mental health awareness (sic)"
In the extract, Michelle wrote about how she used to take laxatives to rid her body of "anything I did eat", and admitted she would wake up in the middle of the night and "go through the cupboards like a locust" before making herself sick and going back to bed.
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