Fix #50
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_cookie.php b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_cookie.php
index 8617aec..2f1bf35 100755
--- a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_cookie.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_cookie.php
@@ -223,9 +223,6 @@
 			show_error('In order to use the Cookie Session driver you are required to set an encryption key in your config file.');
 		}
 
-		// Load the string helper so we can use the strip_slashes() function
-		$this->CI->load->helper('string');
-
 		// Do we need encryption? If so, load the encryption class
 		if ($this->sess_encrypt_cookie === TRUE)
 		{
@@ -755,7 +752,7 @@
 	 */
 	protected function _unserialize($data)
 	{
-		$data = @unserialize(strip_slashes(trim($data)));
+		$data = @unserialize(trim($data));
 
 		if (is_array($data))
 		{
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 5b24dc2..59a3a1f 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -391,6 +391,7 @@
 -  Fixed a bug (#1624) - :doc:`Form Validation Library <libraries/form_validation>` rule **matches** didn't property handle array field names.
 -  Fixed a bug (#1630) - :doc:`Form Helper <helpers/form_helper>` function ``set_value()`` didn't escape HTML entities.
 -  Fixed a bug (#142) - :doc:`Form Helper <helpers/form_helper>` function ``form_dropdown()`` didn't escape HTML entities in option values.
+-  Fixed a bug (#50) - :doc:`Session Library <libraries/sessions>` unnecessarily stripped slashed from serialized data, making it impossible to read objects in a namespace.
 
 Version 2.1.3
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