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S CLUB 7's Jo O'Meara took an overdose after school bullies made her life hell for four years, she revealed last night. In a desperate cry for help the blonde beauty swallowed a handful of painkillers- and her tormentors even helped stuff them in her mouth. Jo was rushed to hospital and had her stomach pumped o save her life. She was only 14 at the time and the suicide bid was the only way she could see out of her bullying nightmare now she has spoken exclusively to The Sun about her painful past to help kids today who are the victims of bullies. Jo, 21, said: "I just want to let kids know that suicide is not the way out. That just makes you look weak and makes the bullies look strong." The star says that even now she still bears the scars of being beaten up and mentally tortured as a child. Her bullying ordeal began when she joined Bower Park School in Romford, Essex, when she was ten. Four girls began picking on her daily, making every moment of her walking hours a nightmare. Jo said: "It was awful, really bad. It was mental and physical abuse every day. The bullying was all the time - I never got a break from it. They hit me, threw me down the stairs, thy called me names. I always knew they were waiting for me. I dreaded going to the next class because I knew that walking from one class to another I would get something along the way. "They would say, 'you think your so pretty, they think your so popular, you think you have a voice'. "They would make me stand on tables and sing. It was just general bitchiness and being nasty. Anything to make me feel bad. The fear was constant from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed. "I used to have alot of nightmares. It was the though of going up and going through it all again the next day. It was playing on my mind all the time." After four years of hell, Jo was desperate to escape the bullying. So one day at school she crammed dozens of headache pills into her mouth and waited for the final release from her torture. Her voice shaking, Jo recalls the lowest part of her life. She said: 'I got really depressed and I thought there was no way out. I was really down and I knew I had to to do something about it. "I took the pills at school in front of the bullies. I wanted to show them what they were making me do to myself - to let them see how wrong they were. But they just tried to put the ills down my throat themselves - they tried to help me. I had to go to hospital to get my stomach pumped. "In away it was my cry for help because I couldn't see any other way out. Jo was so terrified of the bullies that she had been unable to tell her parents what she had been suffering. She said: "If a bully tells you not to say anything you don't. I know people say you should stand up for yourself. But you can't stand up for yourself because if you are a victim of it and they say don't say anything you don't. "I also didn't tell any one else because I was embarrassed by it. I don't know why, but you feel stupid. It is a very degrading thing to go through - it is not something you want to admit. "Everyone at school ignored it. The girls that were doing it were big girls and every one was scared of them. The teachers might have seen what was going on but hey were no any help. I was completely on my own." Jo says she relies now that her suicide bid was a big mistake. "I am not proud of what I did but sometimes things get so bad you don't know what to do," she said.