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Sarah Harding: The day I left for rehab I was crying hysterically

Singer in recovery after treatment for depression and alcohol problems

Sarah Harding's Girls Aloud bandmates Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts were concerned about Sarah

It was soon after a dinner date with Girls Aloud bandmates Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh that Sarah Harding reached her lowest point before booking herself into rehab.

‘I wasn't in a good state at all - I was very hung over,' recalls Sarah, 30.

‘But the first thing I wanted to do was open a bottle of wine.

‘I know they were really worried about me.'

Sarah's battle with booze got worse after her split from DJ fiancé Tom Crane in September.

‘It was getting harder and harder each day to get myself together and my emotions were all over the place,' Sarah tells Hello!.

‘One minute I was deliriously happy, to the point of hysteria, and totally in denial about my problems saying, "I'm fine, I'm fine."

'The next it hit me and when it did, it hit me hard.

'The day I left for rehab, I was in such a mess. I've been told by those close to me that was when I hit my worst. 

'I was crying hysterically. I felt ashamed, embarrassed, terrrified - my emotions were all over the place.'

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Anna Francis