I’m homeless, sofa-surfing and using food banks this Christmas after horror car crash ruined my life
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KNOCKING on her cousin's front door Wendy Williams, 66, is greeted with a smile and a hug. After a quick catch up, her relative offers Wendy pillows, sheets and a duvet so she can make a bed on the living room sofa. In return Wendy grabs a bag of food and hands it to her cousin as a thank you.
![[Wendy suffered horrible injuries after a car crash in Turkey]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/morden-sw-london-sofa-surfer-956029570_800d02.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The retired gran-of-eight and great grandmother of six isn't visiting for a pre-Christmas holiday. At 66 she’s homeless, sofa surfing for a bed, un-retired, accepting any job she can find, and only able to eat and return people’s kindness using food bank groceries.
![[Wendy Williams, 66, shows her injuries while sitting on her cousins sofa]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/morden-sw-london-sofa-surfer-956029482.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
“I’m a homeless grey rinse grafter. I have had to un-retire. I never imagined I’d be this skint in my sixties. “The cost-of-living crisis, rising prices and being hit by a car has left me without a house, I have to rely on sofa surfing and living off less than a one hundred quid a week to survive”, Wendy tells The Sun.
“I have to work part-time or casually. It’s the only way I can save enough money for a deposit not on a house to buy but simply a single room to rent in a shared house. “I am reliant on food bank parcels just to eat. But whenever I find casual work I smile and focus only on the job,” she says.
“I am not complaining. I will do whatever it takes to not be a burden. I don’t have a bed for Christmas. “This wasn’t how I planned or imagined I’d be spending my late sixties. I have gone from being financially secure to a homeless nan begging for handouts. It’s a grim reality.”.
