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How did British PM's ex-girlfriend become a
nun?
Sunday April 29, 2012 07:41:43 PM,
IANS
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London:
A former girlfriend of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who
met her as a Conservative Party worker in the 1990s, left politics
and worked in advertising but took to drinking and addiction
before finally becoming a nun in the US.
According to the Daily Mail, 44-year-old Laura Adshead was a
student at the Cheltenham Ladies' College. She went to Oxford,
where she met Cameron when they were young undergraduates.
She worked in London at the Conservative Party headquarters, and
dated Cameron from 1990 till 1991. Cameron continued to work at
the Conservative Central Office, and she went on to become the
then prime minister John Major's correspondence secretary.
Adshead later left politics to study at the Wharton business
school in Philadelphia and became an executive in New York for an
advertising agency.
But the stress of success proved too much for her. She took to
drinking and addiction before finally finding salvation in god at
an abbey in Connecticut, the daily said.
Now known as Sister John Mary, she works at her convent with 36
other sisters.
"I did think my life would progress on the normal tracks of
meeting someone, marrying, having children, but that's not the
path that God has led me," Sister John Mary says in a new
documentary.
Photographs are shown of her as a young woman, posing in a
leopard-skin top, smoking and drinking a glass of wine.
But she said her lifestyle brought her only loneliness.
"I feel like I tried most things in life that are supposed to make
you happy. That journey took me down into alcoholism and drug
addiction," she said.
The daily said that in a 2007 biography of Cameron, a former
colleague at the party headquarters said Laura was granted a
"period of compassionate leave" to recover from the heartbreak.
The film shows the ceremony that Laura went through to join the
nuns.
She took her vows four years ago, but the process lasts for
five-and-a-half years following which she be eligible to assume
the title of "Mother".
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