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Lucy Benjamin has claimed that she hopes to "find inner strength" during her stint on I'm A Celebrity....
The former EastEnders actress, who counts Anthony Cotton and Jim Davidson among her celebrity supporters, said that she wants to see how far she is willing to go in the bushtucker trials.
"I want to see how far I can push myself in terms of the kind of place you find yourself in mentally and seeing if I can go through with the bushtucker trials and living with complete strangers without it sending you over the edge," she said.
"I am hoping that I will find some inner strength when I am out there, but right now, there is a lot of fear."
Benjamin, who has phobias about flying insects, birds, butterflies and moths, confessed that her biggest fear is being away from her daughter Bessie for such a long time.
"Three days is the longest I have ever been away from my daughter... in terms of what I might get thrown at me... nothing is going to be worse than my heartbreak," she said.
"From the point of me leaving her and getting on that plane out there, that is going to be the worst part for me. So if I can deal with that and get through the other side when I land I'm going to have a great time and just say, 'I'm going to give it my best shot'."
The 39-year-old added: "I know there are going to be a lot of times where I'm going to be very upset. It will be the bored, quiet moments where you are just going, 'Oh my god. What is she doing? Where is she now?'... I know that there are going to be points when I will be beside myself."
I'm A Celebrity... returns on Sunday at 9pm on ITV1.
