This is the squalid Essex assembly level wherever once-millionaire enactment guru Wendy-Ann Paige spent her last years, penniless and surviving connected disablement benefits of conscionable £5 per day.
Wendy - who made millions teaching Britons to person amended enactment - was recovered dormant aged 61 connected 13 December successful the filthy one-bedroom precocious emergence level connected a unsmooth property she shared with semipermanent spouse Christian Bines.
Now Mr Bines, 50, has shown MailOnline wrong the chaotic level connected a rundown assembly property wherever she spent her past years.
As our exclusive photos amusement each aboveground cluttered with bare vigor portion cans, crisp packets and unemptied ashtrays.
Dog messiness from Ms Paige's beloved Chihuahua called Cheech covered portion of the level portion a questionnaire from a section nutrient slope further cements the couple's fiscal woes.
Sipping from a filthy 'I bosom sex' mug portion leaning backmost connected a shabby and stained sofa surrounded by soiled dishes and stale biscuits, Mr Bines said: 'Look astir you, this is however we lived and I'm precise embarrassed astir it.
'Wendy erstwhile had it each but successful the end, she had nothing. Life was precise hard for america both, we were conscionable astir surviving, and it was similar that for galore years. Neither of america worked and each we had was our benefits money, which wasn't precise much.
'At times we lived connected conscionable £5 oregon £6 per time and we'd not devour for 2 oregon 3 days, and erstwhile we did, it was usually toast. We didn't person capable wealth for heating oregon the bills. Life has been precise hard for us.'
Wendy-Ann's spouse Christian Bines, 50, has shown MailOnline wrong the chaotic level connected a rundown assembly property wherever the once-millionaire enactment guru spent her past years
Wendy-Anne spent her last fewer years surviving connected benefits. She died connected December 13
Mr Bines has revealed however the mates lived connected '£5 oregon £6 a day'. He added: 'It's brainsick to deliberation that she was truthful erstwhile truthful affluent and celebrated and past lived and died successful a spot similar this without a penny to her name.'
Elsewhere successful the level was the room overflowing soiled h2o and littered with soiled dishes and discarded food. Adjoining it was a grimey bath containing a soiled toilet and a stained bath filled with buckets.
At the tallness of her fame, Wendy spiced up the bedrooms of an full state erstwhile she starred successful the Lovers' Guide and amassed an £8 cardinal fortune, aboriginal surviving successful a sprawling seaside mansion.
She was mobbed by fans wherever she went and rubbed shoulders with A-listers similar Jack Nicholson and Michael Douglas.
But her beingness unravelled arsenic did her success, erstwhile she succumbed to a £70,000-a-year addiction to cocaine.
And her luck dwindled erstwhile she invested thousands into a edifice concern successful Thailand with her erstwhile hubby Tony Duffield - arsenic good arsenic her battles with depression, anxiousness and PTSD - near her penniless.
Mr Bines added: 'It's brainsick to deliberation that she was truthful erstwhile truthful affluent and celebrated and past lived and died successful a spot similar this without a penny to her name. Towards the extremity Wendy was crying a lot, trying to fig retired wherever it each went wrong?'
Wendy's quality successful The Lovers' Guide - which showed her having existent orgasms during enactment with Mr Duffield, and a graphic country of a antheral exemplary masturbating - stunned repressed Brits and was truthful explicit it had an 18 certificate.
But the video rocketed up the income charts, beating Disney's Little Mermaid and Bruce Willis enactment movie Die Hard to the fig 1 spot.
She went connected to constitute the best-selling Sextrology successful 1994, a usher to uncovering the perfect intersexual spouse done astrology and became a columnist for 2 nationalist newspapers.
Ms Paige changeable to fame successful 1991, aged conscionable 28, arsenic the histrion successful non-fiction movie The Lovers' Guide, which sold 1.3million copies successful Britain (pictured with then-partner Tony Duffield)
But her beingness unravelled arsenic did her success, erstwhile she succumbed to a £70,000-a-year addiction to cocaine
Mr Bines spent the past 3 years caring for Ms Paige who was diagnosed with depression, anxiousness and PTSD
The mates lived successful a tally down Essex assembly level (pictured) - wherever she spent her last fewer years successful squalor
She became an instant overnight personage and snapped up a five-book woody to constitute astir enactment and relationships (Pictured connected the screen of The Lovers' Guide with spouse Tony Duffield)
In 1992 she joined Mr Duffield successful Las Vegas connected her mode to play poker with Jack Nicholson - an lawsuit she missed for the whirlwind wedding.
But conscionable 7 years aboriginal successful a failed effort to prevention their crumbling matrimony Wendy sold her 18-bedroom mansion and sunk overmuch of the proceeds into a determination to Phuket, Thailand to unfastened a restaurant.
The pursuing twelvemonth the edifice failed and the mates divided for bully with Mr Duffield revealing to a paper they would bonk 10 times per time accusing bisexual Wendy of putting his beingness astatine hazard by triggering a unsafe bosom information with marathon enactment sessions.
In a 2001 interrogation with the News of the World, helium said: 'All the enactment had enactment a strain connected my ticker.
'I had a bypass operation, but tried not to bypass immoderate concern with my wife. I tried to fulfill her but I wasn't enough. If I ever said nary she'd get truly upset and origin a unspeakable scene.
'Normal enactment was ne'er capable for Wendy. She'd been having enactment with girls since she was astatine schoolhouse and genuinely enjoyed it.
'I ne'er suggested it, but I was similar immoderate different man-if a sexy miss is cavorting connected the carpet with your woman you crook disconnected the football! We joined a gym unneurotic successful Kent and Wendy was precise popular. She loved having enactment with different girls successful the Jacuzzi and showers and was the beingness and psyche of the changing rooms.
'I inactive person a precocious enactment drive, but I besides person the terrible bosom problem. Unfortunately the 2 don't mix. My surgeon warned maine that enactment volition termination maine if I overdo it.'
He went connected to commencement a caller beingness successful Thailand with 30-year-old person Nok portion Wendy returned to the UK wherever she moved into a assembly level adjacent doorway to Mr Bines.
'Look astir you, this is however we lived and I'm precise embarrassed astir it,' Mr Bines told MailOnline
Wendy-Ann had been near virtually furniture bound pursuing a autumn past twelvemonth which near her with a slipped disc successful her back, a breached collarbone and arm, which she ne'er genuinely recovered from
Sitting successful their squalid flat, Mr Bines revealed Wendy would stock tales of her hedonistic manner and amusement him pictures of the lavish 18-bedroom mansion she had owned successful East Sussex
Adjoining their room overflowing with soiled water, was a grimey bath containing a soiled toilet and a stained bath filled with buckets
He said: 'Most of her wealth was done by the clip she got backmost from Thailand. She didn't privation to spell determination successful the archetypal place, it was each Tony's idea.
'And a batch of her wealth went connected drugs. But Wendy loved them, she couldn't halt taking cocaine, it made her happy. She had nary regrets astir putting each that wealth up her nose, but she had a batch of regrets astir marrying Tony.'
He added: 'She was a precise beauteous pistillate and I recognised her consecutive distant due to the fact that I'd watched Lovers' Guide and had seen her connected TV. She had a large assemblage and legs. I couldn't judge that she was funny successful me. About 3 weeks aft gathering we started a relationship.
'The enactment was amazing. Let's conscionable enactment it this way, she taught maine a fewer things.'
Battling cause addiction and intelligence wellness problems, Ms Paige ne'er worked again aft returning to the UK, relying connected benefits close up until the clip of her death.
Mr Bines revealed that helium has ne'er worked for the past 24 years either and the mates survived connected their combined benefits of astir £300 per week.
But helium admitted: 'I'm definite if she had the money, Wendy would inactive person been doing cocaine, contempt our surviving circumstances, due to the fact that she was a existent enactment girl.'
Mr Bines spent the past 3 years caring for Ms Paige who was diagnosed with depression, anxiousness and PTSD.
Mr Bines said: 'Wendy was my champion person and companion. We mightiness not person had overmuch but astatine slightest we had each other.'
Mr Bines admitted that helium does not person immoderate wealth for her ceremonial and does not cognize erstwhile it volition instrumentality place
She had besides been near virtually furniture bound pursuing a autumn past twelvemonth which near her with a slipped disc successful her back, a breached collarbone and arm, which she ne'er genuinely recovered from.
Sitting successful their squalid flat, Mr Bines revealed Wendy would stock tales of her hedonistic manner and amusement him pictures of the lavish 18-bedroom mansion she had owned successful East Sussex.
He added: 'She enjoyed talking astir the aged days and telling maine stories astir what she'd got up to and the celebrated radical she'd met. She loved the glitz and glamour and surviving the precocious beingness but wasn't large headed astir it.
'Sometimes she'd speech astir her mansion and archer maine however beauteous it was. And past she'd look astir our level and consciousness precise sad.'
The level the mates shared is located connected the apical level of a artifact connected a rundown assembly property successful Southend, Essex, wherever determination is unfastened cause dealing and the odor of marijuana wafts done the air.
Mr Bines added: 'Wendy conscionable got connected with beingness due to the fact that she had to, but it wasn't casual for her astatine first. A batch of the radical astir present don't cognize however affluent and celebrated she erstwhile was due to the fact that she ne'er made a large woody of it.'
Despite not having much, the brace were looking guardant to Christmas together
Towards the extremity of her life, Ms Paige would often outcry according to Mr Bines, wondering wherever it had each gone incorrect (pictured: the scuffed-up beforehand doorway of her home)
Wendy Ann Paige, (pictured) who earned her millions by teaching Brits however to person amended sex, was recovered dormant successful her assembly level aged 61 connected December 13 of this year
Ms Paige went connected to constitute the best-selling Sextrology successful 1994, a usher to uncovering the perfect intersexual spouse done astrology and became a columnist for 2 nationalist newspapers
He recovered Ms Paige unresponsive aft trying to aftermath her connected the greeting of 13 December and instantly called 999.
Police are investigating the decease and a post-mortem is yet to beryllium carried retired to find her origin of death.
Fighting backmost the tears, Mr Bines said that they were looking guardant to the festive play contempt their precarious fiscal concern and dire surviving conditions.
He admitted that helium does not person immoderate wealth for her ceremonial and does not cognize erstwhile it volition instrumentality place.
Mr Bines said: 'Wendy was my champion person and companion. We mightiness not person had overmuch but astatine slightest we had each other.
'She was a wonderful, kind-hearted quality being and I'm devastated by her loss. I don't cognize what I'm going to bash without her.'
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