The pair shared a tender doorstep kiss before he sneaked into her apartment at 6.30pm. Wrinkly Ronnie stayed until 3am and begged her to give their relationship another go, pleading: "I love you, please take me back."

So is their affair back on? Had he just come to collect that Rolling Stones CD she’d borrowed? Or was this another publicity stunt?

'I burst into tears and then Jo made us all vodkas and I passed out on her lap. The family seemed a bit nuts to me, although I’ve got nothing against them.’

Four months ago, in a desperate bid for attention, she slashed both arms with a pair of scissors. She ended up in hospital with 12 stitches. ‘Ronnie wouldn’t see me there because his management didn’t want the Press to find out,’ she says.

I realise now that money can’t buy happiness. But people who say I am a gold-digger are ignorant. I loved Ronnie for who he was, not for his fame or his money.’ Perhaps she genuinely believes that. But it is hard to escape the suspicion that Katya ‘loved’ Ronnie more because of who she is – a rather rootless young woman given few moral guidelines by the adults around her – than anything he had to offer.