Sarah Harding will appear on The Rob Brydon Show – Christmas Special next Monday.

Above is a preview clip which you can watch now.

The show will air on Monday 19th December 2011 at 9.30pm on BBC2

Thanks to SarahAddicts for the video.

Sarah Harding has spoken about her decision to go to rehab for the first time, revealing that it was her Girls Aloud bandmates who helped her realise she needed help to sort out her heavy drinking.

The blonde singer – known for her partying ways – said she cried “hysterically” as she headed to a clinic in the US.

Harding said her drinking went out of control as her relationship with ex-fiance Tom Crane disintegrated and she tried to “numb” the pain.

She told Hello! magazine: “The day I left for rehab, I was in such a mess. I’ve been told by those close to me that was when I hit my worst.

“I was crying hysterically. I felt ashamed, embarrassed, terrified – my emotions were all over the place.”

Harding said she was ricocheting between emotional extremes as her wild living spiralled as a way to cope with being down.

The chart star – who scored hits such as Love Machine and Biology – with the girl group sought help for depression and alcohol abuse in October when her relationship with DJ Crane fell apart.

She said: “Our lives had started to go in different directions without us even realising and we’d become like passing ships.

“He had his career, I had mine, and somehow they didn’t seem to marry up. As far as our future plans were concerned, I didn’t see how it would work.

“I was so down but I just tried to keep busy and, to numb myself, I was drinking more. It was my way of escaping.”

And, she admits, the situation soon spiralled.

Harding said her “emotions were all over the place” adding: “One minute I was deliriously happy, to the point of hysteria, and totally in denial about my problems saying, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine.’ The next it hit me and when it did, it hit me hard. It’s all about acceptance.”

It was a dinner with bandmates Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts which made her realise she had a problem. A night earlier she had appeared on the catwalk at a fashion show, then went out to celebrate.

“I went too far, drank way too much,” she told Hello!.

But rather than toning it down the next day, her friends were shocked to see she merely picked up and carried on.

Harding said: “The following night, I saw Nicola and Kimberley for dinner. I wasn’t in a good state at all – I was very hungover. But the first thing I wanted to do was open a bottle of wine. I know they were really worried about me.”

The singer – who checked out of the clinic last month – feels she has now turned it around.

“I’ve turned 30 now and, although there will always be a bit of the rock chick in me, I’m trying to embrace my softer and more feminine side.

“And I am trying really hard to be healthy. I have met up with friends in London since I got back and I’ve realised I can socialise without booze,” added Harding.

- The full interview is in the new edition of HELLO! which is out now.

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We would like to say a big Happy Birthday to Sarah Harding, who is the big 30 today, from all at Girls Aloud Media.

Cheryl and Nicola took to their Twitter pages to pubically send their birthday messages to Sarah.

Sarah has recently left rehab, and we hope she celebrates with lots of cake!

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Nadine has now also wrote a message on her twitter:

Happy GAs first 30 th birthday Sarah Harding. I remember your 21 st in the popstars house. Wow.. Sending loads of love. xx

Here’s a brand new picture of Sarah Harding after leaving rehab. She left the clinic over the weekend, and i for one am glad she has recovered. Well done Sarah, we’ve missed you!

Picture credit to Sunday Mirror

Cheryl Cole has reportedly taken time out of her hectic schedule to visit bandmate Sarah Harding in her Arizona rehab facility.

Sarah checked in three weeks ago for depression and alcohol-related issues, following her heartbreaking split from DJ Tom Crane.

Cheryl, whose LA apartment is 500 miles from the treatment centre, is said to have made time to visit her after years of worrying about her own troubled brother Andrew.

A source told the Daily Star: “Cheryl is really concerned for her friend Sarah. She made time in her busy schedule to travel over to Arizona and visit her in the rehab centre.

“She has told Sarah she is more than welcome to use her LA home as an escape pad when she comes out of rehab. A bolt-hole where Sarah can chill out and escape the London limelight and maybe try to save her relationship with Tom”.

But dedicated Sarah has reportedly extended her stay in the facilitiy, and is unlikely to be out in time for Christmas.

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True or not, im sure all the Girls are in constant contact with Sarah and i hope to see her smiling again soon!

Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch has said he is looking to recruit Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding as an ambassador for the newly set-up Amy Winehouse Foundation.

Harding entered rehab earlier this month in a bid to deal with “alcohol and depression issues”, after it was claimed that she’d hit “rock bottom” after splitting from her fiancé Tom Crane last month.

Mitch, who set up the foundation in memory of his daughter, who died earlier this year, has said he sees Harding as the ideal person to get the message out about the foundation’s aim of “helping those struggling with substance abuse”.

He told The Sun:

If we could pick Sarah up when she recovers and put her in front of a school assembly to tell those kids the reality of drinking and alcoholism, it would be making a big start. Sarah will be ideal, but all in good time when she has faced her own problems. There might be some kids who actually take notice of what she has to say.

Mitch confirmed that the foundation has recently made three donations to causes that were close to his daughter’s heart, with £10,000 given to three charities respectively.

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Sarah Harding is doing “really well” after entering rehab, says Girls Aloud bandmate Kimberley Walsh.

It emerged last week Sarah had entered a treatment centre to help her deal with depression and her drinking following her split from DJ boyfriend Tom Crane.

Kimberley said of Sarah: “She’s good. She’s doing really, really well.

“We’re all there for her.”

Sarah’s Girls Aloud bandmates encouraged her to get herself together ahead of reunion dates next year.

Kimberley has also been receiving moral support from her bandmates recently – as she takes to the stage in Shrek the Musical.

Cheryl Cole and Nicola Roberts have already been to see her take to the stage as the gutsy Princess Fiona.

And she is confident Sarah and Nadine Coyle will also pop along to the show.

“Nadine is going to come, hopefully, and see it before the run is through. That will be nice. And Sarah too.”

Kimberley stepped into the show at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane following the departure of pregnant Amanda Holden earlier this month.

But the singer said her new role will not hamper any preparations for a Girls Aloud reunion.

“We’re still looking to try and plan something for next year. I finish early next year, so it’s fine.

“It’s too early to give anything away, but it’s exciting, the thought of us being back together.”

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Sad news came to light yesterday as it was reported exclusively by The Sun newspaper, that Sarah had checked into rehab.

A Girls Aloud spokesman told The Sun: “Sarah Harding has entered a treatment centre for depression and alcohol addiction.”

We wish Sarah a healthy recovery, and takes out all the time she needs to get back on the mend.