Wendy-Ann Paige, known as the Lovers’ Guide sex guru, has been tragically found deceased at her home, aged 61.
Police were dispatched to her Southend home in Essex, where she was discovered unresponsive.
Her distraught partner Christian Bines, 50, said: “I just woke up and she was dead. She wouldn’t move and was already gone. I instantly phoned 999.
“They reckon she may have overdosed on tablets in the night. I remember the evening before she said she wasn’t in pain anymore. She’d been in agony ever since falling down some steps when going to the cinema in October last year.”
The fall resulted in a slipped disc in her back, a broken collarbone and deformed arm, from which she never fully recovered.
An Essex Police spokesperson stated: “We were called by colleagues in the East of England Ambulance Service Trust at about midday on Friday December 13 after they were alerted to a woman aged in her sixties having been found to have died in Southend.”
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Officers attended the scene to offer support, reports the Mirror.
The death is considered unexpected and unexplained, and an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
Detectives are awaiting the results of a postmortem on Wendy, who was known for starring in the world’s best-selling legal sex video. She shot to fame at 28 as the actress in The Lovers’ Guide, which sold an impressive 1.3million copies in the UK.
Wendy was working as a marketing director in 1989 when she met Tony Duffield, then 36, a sound engineer for the band Madness. They quickly became a couple after responding to an ad in a swingers’ magazine for ‘real people’ to star in a sex education video.
At the peak of her fame, Wendy resided in a £2million mansion in Sussex, but more recently had been struggling with a cocaine addiction that saw her living in a dilapidated flat. Wendy secured five book deals and became a sex expert for a tabloid newspaper.
She also penned the best-selling Sextrology in 1994, a guide to finding the perfect sexual partner through astrology.
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