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Jameela Jamil reveals she tried to take her own life several times after going days without sleep due to her chronic battle with insomnia


Jameela Jamil has revealed she was driven to multiple attempts on her own life due to her decades-long struggle with the debilitating sleep disorder insomnia.

'In the past year and a half my short term memory has started to go, and I've learned that they can cause early onset dementia (I was calling it Jamentia) so I've finally thrown in the towel and flushed them down the loo. Collecting Glamour's Game Changing Voice Of The Year, she expressed her sadness at the return of 'heroin chic' as she gave an impassioned speech on how women are once again 'suffering and risking our lives' in the pursuit of the 'same Snapchat face'. The Mail's Richard Eden reported in April that, during a photoshoot for Vogue magazine, celebrated photographer David Bailey allegedly treated Jameela so unkindly that she starved herself for almost a month afterwards.

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