TheLadies of Londonare no strangers to heartbreak.
The Bravo reality show about six women living in the U.K. ran for three seasons from 2014-16 and is back in the news after the tragic death of one of its original stars.
Annabelle Neilsonwasfound deadon Thursday at the age 49. The model’stroubled lifeleading up to her sudden death included a brutal attack at age 16, a resulting heroin addiction, a divorce, the suicide of her best friendAlexander McQueen, and a horse-riding accident that left her with chronic pain.
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Neilson’s fellow cast members have also encountered tragedy. Noelle Reno’s fiancé, Scot Young,died in 2014after falling 60 feet onto iron railings outside his $4.7 million home. Young, who was in the middle of $30 million divorce fight with his ex-wife Michelle, had two daughters.
Meanwhile, Julie Montagu’s husband Luke, the heir to the Earl of Sandwich,developed a drug addictionto antidepressants and sleeping pills so crippling that she had a nervous breakdown on Christmas in 2010, she toldYou Magazine.
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Montagu credited yoga and her well-balanced diet with helping her cope during dark times.
TheDaily Mailwrote that Caprice Bourret, a first-season cast member, was diagnosed with a brain tumor that was later found to be benign.
“My diagnosis was the scariest time in my life,” she said to the publication. “My first thought was for my two little boys. I had no idea what was in store. I feared I’d leave them without a mum.”
source: people.com
