Tulisa Contostavlos says she finally has answers after suffering ‘horrific’ health issues for 12 years

Tulisa Contostavlos has revealed she has yet got answers aft suffering with “horrific” wellness issues for 12 years.

The N-Dubz singer and erstwhile X Factor judge, 36, turned to galore doctors aft feeling arsenic though determination were ants crawling crossed her look and similar her “cheek was connected fire”.

In 2020, she was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, which is simply a impermanent weakness oregon deficiency of question that usually affects 1 broadside of the face.

The Playing With Fire hitmaker - who is reported to beryllium appearing connected this year’s bid of I’m A Celebrity - says she turned to fillers to effort to “balance out” her look owed to the effects of the condition, but said that her facial swelling kept recurring.

Then, finally, this year, she had an ultrasound which srevealed she had “three chronically infected cysts” successful her cheek.

Appearing connected Olivia Attwood's podcast So Wrong It's Right, she said: “I've nary thought what they were caused by, they weren't filler, they were conscionable self-occurring, but I came retired of the cognition and instantly my look was little swollen.

“There's immoderate inactive determination truthful I inactive person the inflammation but it's mode less. In the adjacent 2 months [the doctor’s] going to spell successful to get those ones.”

Detailing the symptoms she experienced, which became peculiarly atrocious erstwhile N-Dubz reunited successful 2022 aft a 10-year hiatus, she said: “I would person similar tingling sensations similar small ants crawling successful my face. I started seeing doctors each astir the UK – ‘Something's incorrect with me, what's incorrect with my face’ – it was truthful scary. This went each the mode up until this twelvemonth it was horrific.

“I perpetually felt similar my feature was connected fire. I'd person bully days and atrocious days and connected immoderate days, I'd instrumentality steroids, which would bring it down.

“When I was doing that N-Dubz tally it was astatine its worst, truthful you mightiness spot an interview, I look normal. And past you spot different interview, it's like, what the hellhole is going connected with my face?

“And I’ve had each these wellness problems for years – sarcoidosis, immune disorders – and this explains each the symptoms that I was getting and could person been causing Bell’s palsy due to the fact that successful full determination was, I think, six of them [the cysts]. They could person been increasing implicit the years, really triggering the Bell’s.”