How 'Bond girl' model who appeared in opening sequence of Moonraker and earned a fortune as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike secretly battled £250-a-day heroin addiction in her 20s and had to quit the high life to get clean

A glamour model who whose silhouette became known to millions when she appeared in the opening sequence of Moonraker has revealed a tortuous decade-long battle with heroin addiction.

Vicki Rebecca, who was paid £1,000-a-day as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, had the world at her feet after being launched into high-flying circles with celebrities.

But the Aberdeen-born fashionista lived a double life - one as a glamorous model and another as a 'functional' drug addict, with the latter seeing her spend up to £250-a-day on the vice.

Such was the crippling impact of her dependence on the illegal substance that she would sneak away during breaks in filming and shooting to take them - including during the iconic James Bond opening.

The 67-year-old says almost her entire 20s was spent under the thumb of heroin and recalls how she was only able to get clean after leaving the high-life in London and returning to her family in north east Scotland.

Vicki Rebecca, pictured as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, earned £1,000-a-day at the height of her fame

The glamour model appeared as a silhouette in the opening sequence for James Bond film Moonraker (pictured)

Vicki, who later trained as a psychotherapist, has now lifted the lid on her the hidden struggles in her life in a new memoir Naked Truth: Diary of a Glamour Model. 

Speaking to The Sun, Vicki claimed that she would be 'racing to toilets to jack up' after becoming hooked on heroin just a year before filming for the Roger Moore film Moonraker.

The then-22-year-old was one of two naked models hired for the opening sequence in which silhouettes jumped in and out of shot and says behind the scenes it was not nearly so glamorous at many would believe.

Vicki would jump up and down on a trampoline wearing nothing but a g-string and make-up, and even had to jump from 18ft-high scaffolding into the arms of Jaws actor Richard Kiel in a scene that wasn't used in the film. 

She believes she would have been using drugs between takes during the 10-day shoot at Pinewood Studios, but remains 'really proud'of her role 'even if my part was a blink and you'll miss it kind of moment'.

While the James Bond film featured her most iconic role, Vicki - who also appeared on Page 3 and in the 1979 Joan Collins film The B*** - found a steady stream of job offers as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.

As a lookalike to the Hollywood star, Vicki would often bring in £1,000-a-night opening nightclubs overseas, as well as appearing in a sketch in The Two Ronnies.

She told The Sun: 'I ended up jetting off all over the world and sometimes was met off the planes with bunches of flowers. I opened supermarkets and nightclubs including one in Reykjavik, Iceland. It was really crazy.' 

Vicki has now released a memoir detailing her struggles with a crippling heroin addiction during her time in London in the 1970s and 80s

Vicki became addicted to heroin at the age of 21 and just one year before she appeared in the Roger Moore film Moonraker

However, away from he glamour of appearing like Monroe, Vicki was becoming more and more addicted to heroin, with her habit spiralling out of control.

She struggled to hide it in her professional life, with co-workers noticing she would 'disappear to the toilets for far to long' and with people spotting the marks on her body where she was shooting up. 

'No one would say anything to me, they wanted me to finish the shoot because a lot of money had been invested in that day or half a day of work,' she said.

Being so far away from her family made it possible to hide the worst effects of her addiction from them, but even so they were 'suspicious' when she went home to see them in Scotland.

It was only when she hit rock bottom that Vicki was able to see how much help she needed to get out of the hole she was in, after attempts to wean herself of using Methadone and going cold turkey failed.

In 1985 she heard a voice telling her she could be 'reborn' as she battled suicidal thoughts, and two years later she left London for good to go back to Aberdeen as she knew she would have a 'better chance of making it' away from the capital.

Three years later she used methadone for the last time, and later trained as a psychotherapist specialising in hypnotherapy and neurolinguistic programming (NLP).

She now hopes that her memoir and her 25 years as a therapist will help others struggling with their addiction.

You can find out more about Vicki Rebecca, her work and her new book here.

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