THE former wife of Phil Collins has told how she felt “trapped in a golden cage” living with the rocker as he slipped into alcohol-fuelled depression.
Orianne Bates, 47, said she eloped to Las Vegas to secretly wed lover Thomas Bates, 31, after becoming lonely in their £30million Miami mansion.
She claimed Collins, 70, drank booze and watched news all day — refusing to go out or see friends. Orianne claimed that she slept in a separate bedroom from the Another Day In Paradise star and eventually began seeing other men.
She also told The Sun how she felt Collins had unfairly made her out to be a “fing bitch” as their break-up became public. She said: “I felt like I was trapped in a golden cage.
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