
I think she was special.'īy Josh Boswell For and Ryan Parry, West Coast Correspondent For 'She wore her heart on her sleeve, there was nothing held back.Her friend, neighbor Judy Stoller, told : 'Her skin was luminous and wrinkle-free.
In 2009, her final carer Bruce Cram moved in and they fell in love - and he held her hand as she died in hospital last year.
One carer moved in but was increasingly mentally ill and Sabrina herself became increasingly isolated. In 1988, sick of back pain caused by her large breasts, she had surgery - but it was botched and was crippled and in permanent pain. Her marriage ended in 1974 and she moved into the North Hollywood home she had bought her mother - and she never left. Now reveals the sad last pictures of the 'British Marilyn Monroe' and how she was a guilt-wracked, crippled drug-addict in the end. She had been one of the 50s biggest star but fell so far from fame that her death only emerged this week. Sabrina, real name Norma Ann Sykes, died last year aged 80.
EXCLUSIVE: The sad last picture of Sabrina, the British answer to Marilyn Monroe - who died a drug-addicted recluse in her squalid home, crippled by back surgery to cure the pain of the breasts which made her famous