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Jade Goody says she contemplated suicide in the Priory

Jade Goody has revealed how she was on suicide watch while being treated for depression in the Priory clinic following the Celebrity Big Brother race row.

The 26-year-old reality TV star is also still insisting she wasn't a racist to fellow housemate Shilpa Shetty.

Talking on Irish chat show Livin' With Lucy, Jade told Lucy Kennedy: "She was annoying - (but) it wasn't her background, it wasn't her colour. The last thing I want you to think is that I am a racist because that is one thing I'm not. I do have a bad anger problem."

Jade claimed her temper was due to her troubled upbringing watching her

She added: "I truly forgot her name...So I said 'Shilpa Poppadom'. I mean we call the French 'frogs' and would a Scottish man be offended if I said he's 'Jimmy Haggis'? I didn't mean it in a horrible way."

On her eviction from the Big Brother house, Jade claims she had an anxiety attack and was so close to breaking point she was "like glass".

Her doctor sent her to the Priory clinic and Jade said she refused to take off her coat the whole time she was there.

She added: "It was the worst thing in the world. I sat on the bed and I did not take my coat off because I thought, 'If I take this off it means I've got to stay here'. So I had it on the whole time. I was on suicide watch because that's how bad I was."

However, she said she would never have gone through with it. She explained: "People that kill themselves - I can't speak for everybody - but I just think there are so many people out there who are hungry to live and want a life. I just think that it's a very selfish thing to do."

Jade also talked about being beaten by her mum, who she claimed once hit her so hard that she could not sit down in school.

Jade added: "I don't hate my mum for beating me. I understand that she was frustrated and took it out on me."

Source: Daily Mirror