Nicola Roberts says therapy is "too expensive"

Highlights

• The Yo-Yo singer underwent professional help after suffering from depression in the early years of Girls Aloud but she doesn't think it made her stronger and she would now rather help herself.
• She said: "No, it didn't make me stronger. It's too bloody expensive. I'd rather sit there all night thinking until I couldn't think any more, then reward myself the next day with a pair of Louboutins. But therapy did make me very deep, because I had to search for the reasons why these things were happening to me."
• Nicola also says having therapy helped her become a counsellor to her Girls Aloud bandmates, Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Kimberley Walsh and Sarah Harding.
• In an interview with the UK edition of InStyle magazine, she said: "I think it's important, especially today, when judgement seems to be spiralling out of control. I'd use what I'd learnt on the girls too, a bit like I was the group counsellor. So if Sarah would be in a certain mood, or Kimberley said something out of character, I'd work out why and explain to them, 'It's because you've only had three hours sleep. You're tired!' Although I think I could be quite annoying at times."