Cherry's Cash Dilemmas Page #7

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'although paying for childcare means she won't be any better off.'

I haven't got no money...

'After the essential bills are paid, Birgit lives on 62 a week,

'which has to cover food, clothes and entertainment.

'So haircuts come courtesy of mum.'

This is a whole new approach to hairdressing.

- You see, this is child cruelty!

- Child cruelty!

BRIGIT LAUGHS:

She's doing a great job, Jack. You look great!

'Birgit naturally drifted apart from her

'celebrity friends, but even close pals

'seemed to vanish when she signed on.'

How did it make you feel when certain friends disappeared

because you'd lost your money?

Um...

it was hard, but what's harder is bumping into them.

And em...

This is bringing a lot back.

I'm thinking of one occasion when - I mean, I'm still in Chelsea,

I'm still on my old haunting ground,

and I have had people cross the road when they've seen me coming...

..just to avoid that whole, sort of,

"Oh, good God, there's Birgit."

That really... That really hurts.

BRIGIT SIGHS:

I really hate these snobs who cross the road when they see me coming

because they don't want to deal with a poor person.

You know, God forbid!

I think it serves me right,

I think it's karma and it's been very humbling and I probably deserve it.

I've had the high life,

I've had the Lear jets, I've had the yachts,

I've had the hairdressers and the manicures and pedicures

and massages and the designer dresses.

Em...I've had more than most people

but now...I think I'm seeing real life and real people.

Didn't I give it all

Tried my best...

Her life is so completely, completely different now

but, you can see that she stills hankers after the old times.

It must be an incredibly difficult thing

to have experienced and then let go of.

'So, I've experienced the buzz of being filthy rich

'and what it's like to go cold turkey.

'But what have I really learnt?'

It almost doesn't matter how much money you've got,

money can play a very important role in your life,

it can make you happy and it can make you sad

and it's really important that it sits in the right place

in your priority list.

And that is what I will try and teach Coco,

is that, it doesn't matter if she doesn't have millions

but the money that she does have,

look after it, manage it well

but other things are more important, your friends and family

are essentially the most important thing in your life.

Have monkey? Yeah!

CAR HORN:

CHERRY SHRIEKS:

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