New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Phil Collins’ ex ‘HE NEVER WASHED!’

‘Every day he was sitting down in the same place doing nothing all day’

It’s not just another day in paradise for Phil Collins. The Genesis singer’s ex-wife has lifted the lid on the couple’s miserable existence together, saying it was like being “trapped in a golden cage”.

Orianne Bates, who married, divorced then reunited with the musician, claims the hitmaker slid into an alcohol-sodden depression that, last year, ultimately cost their relationship.

“I felt I was trapped

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