Emotion too much for Melanie

With her eyes red and her face puffy, Melanie Griffith left the set of her husband Antonio Banderas's latest film.

The 45-year-old actress had dropped in to wish him a happy birthday but was in floods of tears minutes later as she watched him shoot a scene.

It was suggested that her breakdown was due to her being intensely moved by his performance in Imagining Argentina, which tells the story of a man whose journalist wife is abducted by government officials.

Banderas, who has previously starred in Evita alongside Madonna, protectively put an arm around his distressed wife as they left the set in Buenos Aires and went for lunch to celebrate the Spanish actor's 42nd birthday.

It is not the first time Miss Griffith has been spotted looking a shadow of her former self. She has in the past been addicted to painkillers and alcohol.

Two years ago the Working Girl star, who has been married four times, kept fans up to date with her drug battles with daily bulletins on her website.

Emotion too much for Melanie
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