WIFE OF MOST VIOLENT LAG Marriage to Bronson drove me to the brink of suicide

THE heartbroken wife of Britain’s most notorious prisoner has told how the bizarre relationship drove her to the brink of suicide.

Charles Bronson has vowed to divorce former soap actress Paula Williamson, 37, after pictures of a lad burying his head in her chest during a wild night went viral.

Last night, she said through tears: “This relationship has driven me to the brink and I have been so low that I have even thought about taking my own life.

“No relationship should make you feel that way.

“It is time for people to know the truth of what happened between us. I have been used and controlled from behind bars as he has poked fun at my weight and told me I am an embarrassment.

“I sat across from him in prison a couple of months ago when I hit rock bottom over the way he was squandering his chances of parole and I showed him scars on my arms from where I had tried to hurt myself.

“I feel like he has chewed me up and spat me out just like he did with the last woman who fell for him.”

Paula and Bronson, now known as Charles Salvador, wed last November at high security HMP Wakefield, West Yorks, in a ceremony attended by just four pals.

They toasted their marriage with sparkling water, before Bronson nabbed their wedding buffet leftovers for his fellow lags.

Her horrified parents boycotted the nuptials – but Paula insisted their union was for life and she’d help her hubby secure freedom after nearly three decades behind bars. Just weeks after they wed, Bronson was transferred to HMP Frankland in Co Durham after a blazing row with the deputy governor over the wedding snaps.

Paula, of Stoke-on-trent, Staffs, says she was so distraught by the episode that she started to self-harm.

She has now been told by Bronson’s lawyers that he is preparing to file for divorce over the pictures of her with clubber Connor Boyes, 26, in Tenerife.

The snaps also showed flirty Paula kiss another reveller while she partied on the holiday island with a pal.

But she hit back: “If anyone should be filing for divorce it’s me but I love him too much.

“Love and marriage are supposed to make you happy. We haven’t even been married a year and I have reached points where I have been so low I didn’t want to carry on.

“But I did carry on because I loved Charlie and I wanted to help him get his freedom back. But now I don’t even know whether that was what he wanted.

“I can never say I regretted marrying him because I still feel that love. I defended that man to the hilt. I told people he had changed – that he wasn’t the evil person everyone thinks he is. He has repaid me by breaking my heart.” Paula, who had roles in Coronation Street and Emmerdale, quit acting so she could concentrate on campaigning for his release after he proposed on Valentine’s Day last year. They became close when she visited him in jail after striking up a bond as penpals. Bronson, 65, was first caged in 1974 for armed robbery and has spent most of his life in Britain’s toughest jails. He last tasted freedom in 1993 and became notorious for attacking prison staff and fellow lags and taking people hostage behind bars. Paula claims she was celibate for nearly two years – but accuses Bronson of writing to other women from his cell. She said: “I fell in love with Charlie and he has treated me like this. He was even