Tragic final days of Lovers’ Guide’s guru who died ‘a hermit’ on £6-a-day after £70k coke habit and depression battle
Tragic final days of Lovers’ Guide’s guru who died ‘a hermit’ on £6-a-day after £70k coke habit and depression battle
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SHE was the sex guru we will forever be thankful for — after helping the nation have more fun in the bedroom. At the height of her fame in the Nineties, Wendy-Ann Paige was a millionaire and would get mobbed when she walked down the street. But she died at her Essex flat last Friday aged 61, having spent her final years as “a hermit”, following battles with depression and PTSD and a £70,000-a-year cocaine habit.
![[Sex guru Wendy-Ann Paige - pictured here with her former partner Tony Duffield - was so famous she would get mobbed when she walked down the street]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sex-mad-lovers-guide-stud-2379529_687f24.jpg?strip=all&w=895)
Wendy found fame when she became the face of the groundbreaking sex-education video, The Lovers’ Guide, in 1991. It was so explicit it had an 18 certificate and showed Wendy having real orgasms during sex with her then partner Tony Duffield, and a graphic scene of a male model masturbating.
![[Wendy-Ann died at her Essex flat last Friday aged 61]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/original-lover-s-guide-30-696154009.jpg?strip=all&w=766)
The video rocketed up the sales charts, beating Disney’s Little Mermaid and Bruce Willis action movie Die Hard to the No1 spot. At the age of 28, Wendy was thrust into the limelight and landed a publicist and five sexpert book deals. She wrote the best-selling Sextrology in 1994, a guide to finding the ideal sexual partner through astrology, became a newspaper astrologist and also joined The Sun as our sex columnist.
![[Tony Duffield & Wendy starred in X-rated The Lovers’ Guide]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tony-duffield-wendy-duffield-appear-695889796.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Wendy recalled: “I would take calls from readers and the phone lines would not stop.”. Despite her success, Wendy was said to be living on just £6 a day in recent years. Police were called to her small flat in Southend, where she was found unresponsive on December 13.
![[Wendy and Tony in scene from The Lovers’ Guide]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NINTCHDBPICT000687563989.jpg?strip=all&w=590)
