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Former Page Three model and singer Samantha Fox has now come out as a lesbian and at the same time also revealed that her current relationship with Myra Stratton isn't her first long-term lesbian relationship. Rumors had earlier been circulating about her and Australian Cris Bonacci, and Samantha now verified that they indeed had been involved with each other but that the relationship was based more on lust than love. This statement led Cris to want to explain her side of the story. Below is an interview Cris did for the UK tabloid 'Daily Mirror'. As always is the case with these kind of interviews, the ex's tend to want to give out as much dirt as possible to hurt the other person and the tabloid "reporters" don't hesitate to fill in the rest. I have removed the worst of this from the article. Daily Mirror, Feb 8th, 2003: (excerpt from article) "She turned to me and said 'Kiss me'" PRETTY Australian Cris Bonacci read Sam Fox's verdict on their love affair, spread across the pages of a magazine, and wept. For four-and-a-half years she had shared a passionate and clandestine lesbian relationship with the former Page Three girl, but now it was dismissed in one cruel sentence. Sam, now happy to talk about the sexuality she kept secret from the world, had both outed and dismissed Cris in one callous blow. Cris, 36, says: "I'm hurt and disappointed. I didn't just love Sam, I was her wife in every sense. I protected her. I decorated her home. I dressed her, I helped write her music, I was her chauffeur, mentor, counsellor and obviously lover. Foolishly, I even turned down a job with Stone Roses because she couldn't bear us to be apart. She'd say: 'You're everything to me.' And I was." "No one knew about our affair, not even my family. Now, thanks to Sam, I'm placed in a position where there's no choice but to tell my mother I'm gay. Yet for years I bent over backwards to hide the truth about me and Sam. I always had her best interests at heart, I was so careful not to take risks which might have exposed Sam Fox, the great British sex icon, as a lesbian." "I was adamant that even a romantic weekend away was too much of a risk. I was so afraid we'd be spotted checking into a hotel together. Even candlelit dinners in smart restaurants were out of the question. Imagine the fuss if photographers had caught us holding hands across the table?" "But there was plenty of romance." Clearly there was. Touchingly Cris has kept every card Sam sent her, every letter and even the messages written hastily on scraps of paper and left beside her pillow. "Crissy, I'm gonna miss you so much," wrote Sam on the eve of her lover's trip to Australia. "I'll be thinking of you night and day. Love you more than words can say. Don't worry about anything. I love you too much to ever hurt you again. Love, your Sam." Sam and Cris first met eight years ago backstage at a gig in St Petersburg. "There was no hint that she was gay initially, though I discovered later she'd always been interested in girls. At that time, the early Nineties' she was still seeing Peter Foster intermittently. She told me later that she never loved him and dreaded going to bed with him. She said there were other ways to please him sexually. I think it was very much a case of what he could do for her. He'd say he'd get her into movies, buy her a huge diamond or a house. She'd loved all that, but of course it was bullshit." "Anyway, I had a girlfriend. I've never had any confusion about my sexuality. I've never been promiscuous and I don't like the gay scene, but I knew from my teens where I stood." "Crucially, I didn't really fancy her. She was too flirtatious for me." The seduction was, to Cris's astonishment, initiated by Sam. "It was hardly romantic," she recalls. "I was quite vulnerable at the time. My girlfriend had met someone else and Sam and I were together at a gig in Estonia. She got drunk and needed help going to the toilet. She turned to me and said 'Kiss me'. There was an instant spark and although we didn't sleep together that night, we both knew it was inevitable. Sex, when it happened with Sam, was like a light being turned on. It was pure lust and that never changed in all the time we were together. It was a very passionate relationship." Even so, Sam was less than faithful. "She was a hopeless liar, " says Cris. "And I'd always know when she'd cheated. She once even seduced an ex-girlfriend of mine who told me long afterwards that the only way to describe her sex drive was animalistic." "At the beginning there was a lot to like about Sam. We moved in together very quickly and the best times were when we were together in her flat, massaging one another's feet and watching TV over a meal she'd cooked. Sam is brilliant, funny and affectionate. Her mum and nan were totally aware of our relationship and liked me. It's comforting when your own family is so far away to have that support. I enjoyed my wifely role too, doing Sam's admin, selling her flat and finding a new home where we planned to live together forever." It is the memories of domestic bliss that obviously pain Cris. She reiterates constantly how much she loved Sam and would never, she insists, have laid bare her soul had she not been provoked by Sam's casual dismissal of their relationship. "Ironically it was because I loved Sam that I left her," she says. "The highs were too high and the lows wrere too low, so I moved out." "She rang - and kept ringing. But it was too late. At the bottom of my heart I wanted to give it another go, but by then Myra was on the scene." "I don't see her anymore, which is sad because I'd like to have remained her friend. But looking at her on TV I know that would be impossible."