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The Just My Luck star Lindsay reveals all about the night she thought she was going to die after years of punishing her frail body.

"I lay there screaming, throwing things, because the pains were so intense in my head and my liver. In the end I didn't even have the strength to take a shower," says the actress and pop singer.

"It was terrifying. But going through s*** makes me that much stronger."

Speaking of her illness, she bravely admits: "I was making myself sick. Sometimes being that thin doesn't look healthy. I kind of didn't realise that.

"One time when someone asked me if I was OK I just started bawling. I knew I had a problem and just could not admit it.

"My arms were disgusting. I had no arms. I had people sit me down and say, ‘You're going to die if you don't take care of yourself'."

She admits to using drugs "a little" as she tried to escape the depression of anorexia. "I've tried pot. I hated it," she says.

Etched in her memory is the most chilling night of her life in 2004 when she was just 18.

She was at the house of her then boyfriend, 26-year-old actor Wilmer Valderrama. "I felt so sick. I lay down on the bed and started getting these shooting pains. I was screaming, throwing things, because the pains were so intense in my head," says Lindsay.

"I ended up in hospital. My liver was swollen and I had a kidney infection and my white blood cells were accelerated. I was really, really white, like a ghost, and my legs were so numb from not walking. My body did not have enough strength to take a shower."

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