How David Cameron's Ex Fought Addiction to be a Nun

Her once-luxuriant blonde hair is cropped short, hidden beneath a traditional nun’s wimple. Our picture shows the moment when former socialite Laura Adshead took her ‘final, solemn, profession of vows’ to become Mother John Mary. It was a milestone that this once-troubled woman had worked towards for 14 years, cut off from the world at a remote Benedictine abbey. The girlfriend of David Cameron in another age, she has since achieved a transformation even more remarkable than the political resurrection of the former Prime Minister.