The public’s hatred turned me to drink... I wanted to kill myself

Upsetting ... Imogen reveals hate campaign drove her to despair

“That’s one of the reasons I moved house. I lived in a ground-floor flat before and I was so scared. I thought, ‘What if someone breaks in?’”

The stress of the attention and the court case soon took its toll.

Imogen continues: “I was on antidepressants and I turned to alcohol. How can any girl cope with all that? I’d drink a bottle of wine a night, more if there was another bottle there. Sometimes I’d start off in the day.

“It was a way of making myself feel different. But with the drinking comes the tears. I didn’t want to go out, I wasn’t in the mood, and I was scared someone would glass me.

“I’m normally an outgoing person, really bubbly, but I died inside — wouldn’t any girl if that happened?”

At her lowest, Swansea girl Imogen admits she just didn’t want to live any more. She says: “I wanted to kill myself. I’d be rolling on the floor, going, ‘What is this, what’s happened?’

“I never went as far as ‘I’m going to do it’ – I couldn’t do that to my family, they mean so much to me.

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