Inside the squalid council flat where tragic Lovers' Guide star Wendy-Ann Paige spent her final years living on £5 benefits handout a day after squandering £8m fortune
Inside the squalid council flat where tragic Lovers' Guide star Wendy-Ann Paige spent her final years living on £5 benefits handout a day after squandering £8m fortune
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This is the squalid Essex council flat where once-millionaire sex guru Wendy-Ann Paige spent her final years, penniless and living on disability benefits of just £5 per day. Wendy - who made millions teaching Britons to have better sex - was found dead aged 61 on 13 December in the filthy one-bedroom high rise flat on a rough estate she shared with long-term partner Christian Bines.
![[Wendy-Anne spent her final few years living on benefits. She died on December 13]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/18/93363279-14214949-image-a-31_1734719500273.jpg)
Now Mr Bines, 50, has shown MailOnline inside the chaotic flat on a rundown council estate where she spent her last years. As our exclusive photos show every surface cluttered with empty energy drink cans, crisp packets and unemptied ashtrays. Dog mess from Ms Paige's beloved Chihuahua called Cheech covered part of the floor while a questionnaire from a local food bank further cements the couple's financial woes.
![[Mr Bines has revealed how the couple lived on '£5 or £6 a day'. He added: 'It's crazy to think that she was so once so rich and famous and then lived and died in a place like this without a penny to her name.']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/21/15/93364929-14214949-image-a-7_1734796629497.jpg)
Sipping from a filthy 'I heart sex' mug while leaning back on a shabby and stained sofa surrounded by dirty dishes and stale biscuits, Mr Bines said: 'Look around you, this is how we lived and I'm very embarrassed about it. 'Wendy once had it all but in the end, she had nothing. Life was very hard for us both, we were just about surviving, and it was like that for many years. Neither of us worked and all we had was our benefits money, which wasn't very much.
![[Ms Paige shot to fame in 1991, aged just 28, as the actress in non-fiction movie The Lovers' Guide, which sold 1.3million copies in Britain (pictured with then-partner Tony Duffield)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/18/93278823-14214949-Ms_Paige_shot_to_fame_in_1991_aged_just_28_as_the_actress_in_non-a-33_1734719687684.jpg)
'At times we lived on just £5 or £6 per day and we'd not eat for two or three days, and when we did, it was usually toast. We didn't have enough money for heating or the bills. Life has been very hard for us.'. Wendy-Ann's partner Christian Bines, 50, has shown MailOnline inside the chaotic flat on a rundown council estate where the once-millionaire sex guru spent her last years.
![[But her life unravelled as did her success, when she succumbed to a £70,000-a-year addiction to cocaine]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/19/93364933-14214949-image-a-53_1734723246450.jpg)