Jail Saved My Life ; Locked Into a Life of Drugs and Crime After Her Father's Death, Victoria Sellers Reveals How a Spell in Prison Pulled Her Back From the Brink

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When your father is Peter Sellers and your mother Britt Ekland, you are always going to have an anecdote or two to tell about your early years. Unfortunately, most of the ones Victoria Sellers tells make you understand why her own life story led promptly to drug abuse and prison, via an association with notorious Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. And why she is always being, as she puts it 'held up as the poster child of Hollywood excess'.

There's the tale of how Daddy once bought her a pony, only to take it back to give it to Princess Margaret's children (he and the Princess were allegedly having an affair, which is presumably another biggie on the things-toscrew-up-your-kids scale). Then, there's the time when, at the age of 13, she pitched up at the Dorchester hotel to have dinner with her father, only for him to launch into a vicious screaming fit. Her crime? Wearing head-to-toe purple. 'He was into Buddhism and it was considered an unlucky colour,' she shrugs.

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Jail Saved My Life ; Locked Into a Life of Drugs and Crime After Her Father's Death, Victoria Sellers Reveals How a Spell in Prison Pulled Her Back From the Brink

The fact that she was allowed to drink Champagne at 14, frankly, says it all. By the time her father died, she was 15 and ripe for full-on drug addiction. At 19, she was sharing a house in Los Angeles with that other notorious celeb offspring, Tatum O'Neal. 'Tatum said in her autobiography that I introduced her to cocaine, but she's out of her mind,' she splutters. 'I didn't do that at all. We did cocaine, though. We used to put the vials on the kitchen shelf, below the doughnuts and above the noodles, and our thinking was, "We...

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