Los Angeles, April 26 : Actress-comedian Tiffany Haddish revealed she has suffered eight miscarriages and battled with painful heavy periods for years.

The actress told People magazine: "It's so devastating. Every time I find out I'm pregnant, I’m like, ‘Don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t do nothin’."

"Even if I don’t really want (the baby), I still try to give it a chance…"

She said: "It's like, I don't know why there's so much blood. And then I go to the doctor, and they're like, 'Oh, you're miscarrying right now. And I just D.C. (dilation and curettage, a procedure to remove pregnancy tissue)."

Haddish said there is "a part" of her that would still like to have a child, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The actress said: "I’ve got all this love, I should give it to somebody who can grow with it.”

Haddish has struggled for years with painful periods and was told recently she likely has endometriosis, a condition where the endometrium extends outside of the uterus, after experiencing pain so bad because she thought she was "dying" and regularly passes out as a result.

"My body be playing tricks on me. I'm pretty sure the devil is real because on the first day of my period, no matter what, the devil goes into overdrive. I feel like my life gets turned upside down," she said.

Explaining how she visited the doctor in November last year because of her frequent fainting, she said: "She gave me something because I kept passing out."