Lovers’ Guide star Wendy-Ann Paige has been found dead at home in Southend at the age of 61.
Paige’s partner, Christian Bines, 50, found her unresponsive on the morning of December 13.
Police officers are investigating the death of the sex guru who transformed millions of people’s sex lives.
Mr Bines 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 accident left her with a slipped disc in her back, a broken collarbone and broken deformed arm which she never truly recovered from.’
Lovers’ Guide star Wendy-Ann Paige has been found dead at home in Southend at the age of 61
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
She became an instant overnight celebrity and snapped up a five-book deal to write about sex and relationships
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.
She starred alongside Tony Duffield, then 26, after they responded to an ad seeking real couples to take part in a sex education video.
She became an instant overnight celebrity and snapped up a five-book deal to write about sex and relationships.
She later became a newspaper astrologist and even wrote for the Sun as a sex columnist.
Paige lived in a £2million mansion at the height of her fame but developed a crippling £70,000 cocaine habit and died in a small flat in the seaside town.
She also suffered from PTSD and depression before her death.
An Essex Police spokesman said: ‘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.
‘Officers were sent to the scene to support. The woman’s death is being treated as unexpected and unexplained and post-mortem examination will be carried out to identify the cause of her death.’
