Pictured: Struggling every step of the way ... the agony of Leslie Ash
Updated 02:38am on 19 Jul 2008
Walking with the aid of a stick like a little old lady, this is Leslie Ash as her fans would barely recognise her.
The former Men Behaving Badly star is clearly still suffering major problems following the hospital superbug infection which led to a £5million payout.
Her face is puffy and she is said to be on a constant regime of painkillers. Enlarge
Hobbling: Leslie Ash using a walking stick in Los Angeles
Miss Ash, 48, was pictured in Los Angeles, where she was filming an ITV documentary about bungled cosmetic surgery.
She spent five hours with a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, although it was not clear if she discussed her own case.
The actress was roundly ridiculed after she reacted badly to treatment in 2002. Her overlyinflated lips - the result of £300 collagen and Botox injections - led to the nickname Trout Pout.

Haggard: She is on constant painkillers
A spokesman for Miss Ash said: 'She's going around showing how easy it is to get collagen and Botox from unqualified doctors.'
It was in January this year that Miss Ash reached her £5million out-of-court settlement with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
She contracted MSSA, a strain of MRSA, while being treated for two broken ribs and a punctured lung.
Lee Chapman, her husband of 19 years, was arrested on suspicion of assault but released without charge when she claimed the injuries were sustained during an 'energetic' sex session.
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Do you think £5 million will be enough?, back in 1984, I was run over by a car, and after years fighting insurance, managed to get £14000.00, and after 20 + years, I am still on pain killers, and disabled. Justice? Only if You can afford good lawyers. This system of taking hospitals to court stinks, they did not cause her to get ill, without hospital she may have died, but as a thank you to them she robbed our nhs. Nice work, she can explain to relatives of the people who die waiting for help, because nhs have no money to treat thier patients, nor to pay staff, and that because there is no money there is a shortage of equipment to develop new drugs and treatment for realy ill people l, £5,000,000.00 would have gone towards a new mri scanner, or reserch into CANCER. She does not need it..
- b james, thetford, norfolk, 21/11/2011 02:32
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