Cheryl Cole: 'I needed tranquillisers to cope with Ashley's cheat rumours'

British songstress Cheryl Cole has revealed that she needed tranquillisers to cope with the stress of infidelity rumours surrounding her then husband Ashley Cole.

The Chelsea full-back was amid a string of reports that he had cheated on the Girls Aloud star during their four-year marriage.

Cheryl wrote in her book Cheryl: My Story: "I was still in shock. I wasn't in control of myself at all. I needed medical help.

"We had a videoshoot for our new single coming up and my doctor gave me a vitamin injection in my bum to perk me up, but it didn't work. It was now about two weeks after the initial allegations and, looking back, I was out of my head on tranquillisers."

The 29-year-old divorced the England international in 2010.