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Sex worker Rachel Webster(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\nRachael Webster tells the ECHO about her life as a sex worker before battling alcohol abuse and cancerSex worker Rachel Webster(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
Aged just 22 and living in a \u201cdepressing maisonette\u201d with no money to install her cooker or phone; exposed bare floors because she couldn’t afford carpets and nothing but a threadbare sofa to sit on, former sex worker Rachael Webster decided she wanted more for her young daughter.<\/p>\n
So, she called a number she found in an ad for a sex worker agency. Now aged 53, the mum-of-three, recalled that \u201clife changing\u201d conversation. She said: \u201cIt was based in Bootle<\/a>. The woman who answered the phone asked me to come in for an interview the next day. I said that\u2019s fine and I did.<\/p>\n \u201cShe asked me what my name was and I said Rachael, she asked if it was my real name or working name. I didn\u2019t even know what a working name was at the time. And that was it, I was a call girl for the next 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n At first Rachael, originally from Halewood<\/a>, says the job was like \u201cstepping into paradise\u201d but told how she\u2019d hide poison gas up her sleeve due to the dangers that went hand in hand with it.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cIt was very very dangerous. But, I made some very good friends. It was like stepping into paradise almost, all the money, champagne, friends, jacuzzies. Before I knew it I was earning around \u00a31,500 a week in Liverpool.<\/a>\u201d Although she says she \u201cdidn\u2019t know\u201d what to do with her new found fortune.<\/p>\n Rachael said: \u201cI got my phone and cooker installed, furnished the house, got a beautiful new carpet, new TV in time for Christmas<\/a> and gave my daughter everything she could have needed. I felt proud that I\u2019d managed to provide for my daughter. It was life changing for us at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n The mum started spending her time working between London and Liverpool<\/a>. She told the ECHO <\/a>how she was making up to \u00a32,500 per week at the time, but this didn\u2019t come without its dangers.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cThe only time I used to feel safe was when I came home to Liverpool. Liverpool <\/a>was my escape, getting to come back and being with my daughter, I remember her hair smelt clean and it made me feel safe.<\/p>\n \u201cI would run around London with a can of CS gas poison up my sleeve, knocking on doors all hours of the day and night, it was very very dangerous.<\/p>\n \u201cIt went on for around 15 years, a long long long time. My mum would say to me \u2018I pray that god brings you home safely every single day’ but I was attached to the excitement of it, I was bored in Liverpool<\/a>, that’s what made me stay [in the industry].\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the \u201cexcitement\u201d Rachael made several attempts to quit her career and even attempted a stint at university in Liverpool<\/a>. She said: \u201cI was around 32 at the time, I did really well at uni <\/a>but my children were young and I was getting up with them at 6am, I burnt the candle at both ends and ended up dropping out. I went back to being a call girl because I didn’t have enough money to look after the children.\u201d<\/p>\n Rachael\u2019s mum died around this time and it prompted her to start drinking excessively. She said: \u201cI started drinking heavily, it all became too much. It hit me so hard.<\/p>\n \u201cI became homeless after my mum\u2019s death, I suffered three heart attacks, I wanted to end my life. I ended up moving full-time to London to get away from Liverpool <\/a>because I would find myself sitting in my mum\u2019s empty house after it went on the market with no furniture, just drinking, it wasn\u2019t very good for me so I went for a fresh start.\u201d<\/p>\n She told the ECHO <\/a>how she would drink up to a litre and a half of vodka every day to cope with the loss of her mum. She said: \u201cI lost the will to live.\u201d But, one day she decided enough was enough and went to get help.<\/p>\n The mum started a charity recovery programme and through the support of friends she met through the network \u201ctransformed\u201d her life. She said: \u201cI was very lucky. One person, a man called Gordon, was my rock through it all. I met him through a homeless charity at the time, we were both homeless living in London. He was there for me when nobody else would pick up the phone to me.<\/p>\n \u201cI met some lovely friends and with their help grew stronger and stronger. I eventually moved back to Liverpool<\/a> because one of my children became very ill and it was then that Gordon inspired me to write a book. Writing was something I had always loved. I started writing short stories and poems from the age of seven.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Sex](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750550301_675_0_Sex-worker-Rachel-Webster.jpg\")
Sex worker Rachel Webster(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n![\"Sex](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750550302_840_0_Sex-worker-Rachel-Webster.jpg\")
Sex worker Rachel Webster.(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n![\"Sex](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750550302_525_0_Sex-worker-Rachel-Webster.jpg\")
Sex worker Rachel Webster.(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n