She married David Philpot, a drug dealer, and had two daughters, Emma and Cassie, but that relationship didn’t last either. “She embarked on a life of drink and drugs, which has been a constant source of worry for us all but my mother in particular. Sadly, it destroyed not just her youth but her potential to develop her talent into a career.”
In 1974, when she was married to David Philpot, her second husband, Pattie kidnapped her from her flat with the help of Alfie O’Leary and Roger, and took her to Brighton. Once David telephoned Pattie and told her to bring back his wife, but Pattie wanted to get Paula away from him because he was a heroin addicted too. By that time Paula had her son William (Emma and Cassie weren’t born yet), and the boy came to stay with Pattie and Eric every weekend.
Once, Paula went to stay with Pattie and Eric, she had collapsed on the floor and her son William (who was seven), was shaking her trying to wake her up, then Pattie heard William’s cries and she went to help her sister.
All family wanted to help her and her mother took her to Scotland, where she was working for a while.
When Emma was born, Paula suffered a post-natal depression and she began to drink again. When Emma was two, Paula realized they would all die if they stayed in London, so they decided to live in Cork and there Paula got dry for months. Sadly, one day she went to a party with some Irish girls and had some beer. The next day she woke up in a psychiatric institution and was terrified.
She splitted up with David and came back to England with three children and had nowhere to live, so the council put her into bed and breakfast accommodation until they found her a house in Haslemere.
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