I made a fortune with A Street Cat Named Bob and met Kate Middleton – then I went back on heroin and hit rock bottom
thesun.co.ukSTANDING in a room surrounded by images of Bob the street cat, tears well up in James Bowen’s eyes as he holds an urn containing the ashes of his beloved pet.
Together they met Kate Middleton, toured the world first-class, sold nine million books and made two movies. Fans from North America to Asia had been swept up in the heart-warming story of how a stray ginger cat helped the homeless busker to give up drugs.
On social media people couldn’t get enough of videos of Bob high-fiving passers-by as he perched on James’s shoulder. But when Bob was knocked down and killed by a speeding driver in June 2020, that fairytale turned into a nightmare.
Tormented with grief by the loss of “the love of my life”, James found himself in a “hole” he needed to fill. READ MORE UK NEWS'DISTURBING' Five arrested over 'racist' attack on teen at school are banned from countyBLAZE TRAGEDY Murder probe launched after woman burnt to death in devastating house fire The author reveals for the first time that he chose to fill it with the drugs which had almost killed him before.
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