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From the Daily Star:

13/03/07
BIG Brother bully Jo O’Meara has revealed why she refused rehab despite considering suicide.

The ex-S Club star’s concerned family and Channel 4 bosses tried to persuade her to check into The Priory as she struggled to cope with the backlash over the Shilpa Shetty race row.

But the blonde – who also faces financial ruin and is trying to sell her home – reckoned her family could offer more help than staff at the clinic favoured by top celebs.

Singer Jo, 27, said: “I’ve got a very good family around me and after speaking to the psychiatrist they wanted to put me in The Priory.

“I didn’t want to go in there because, not being horrible, I didn’t think strangers would benefit me.

“Just having friends and family around me every day made it a lot easier.”

And Jo, who takes Prozac antidepressants, spoke for the first time about the moment she tried to kill herself with painkillers.

She admitted on GMTV: “I felt like I had nothing left. My friend Cindy was fantastic and stayed with me.

“She popped out and I did start to get really low and upset. I had a headache so I poured myself a drink, which I shouldn’t have done because of the Prozac.

“I did take a couple of Nurofen and then I just started taking more and more.”

Jo, who recovered after being found by her friend, had signed up for Big Brother because she needed the cash to stop her home being repossessed and save her dog-breeding business.

But after being branded a bully and a racist over her antics towards Bollywood babe Shilpa Shetty, 31, her finances have nosedived.

She has been forced to put her £300,000 home in Romford, Essex, up for sale after falling behind with mortgage payments.

Jo was coy when confronted with our exclusive story that she is set to pen a warts-and-all-book about her BB experience.

Shilpa, 31, has publicly forgiven her, but has not been in touch.