[1] Nicholson became the subject of tabloid news stories for many years because of the couple's subsequent rapid spending of their fortune and her later chaotic life.
[3] His and his wife's lavish spending sprees (including purchases of expensive sportscars, fur coats, clothing, home appliances, jewellery and holiday trips) over the next few years quickly depleted their fortune.
[citation needed] She came to feel distanced from the people among whom she had lived, who in turn could no longer relate to her,[2] and she developed an ever greater longing for a much more affluent lifestyle.
She entered a mental home to escape from her next husband Graham Ellison, who abused her during the four days in which they lived together; the marriage lasted 13 weeks.
"[5] After opening a short-lived boutique, she ended up penniless,[2] and by 1976 claimed that she could not even afford to bury her fourth husband (they had broken up three years earlier)[citation needed] when he died.
Morrissey had previously borrowed a line from Nicholson's autobiography for the song "Still Ill" ("Under the iron bridge we kissed, and although I ended up with sore lips...").
Another picture of Nicholson taken at Wheldale Colliery, Castleford, West Yorkshire was used on the German release of "Barbarism Begins at Home" and on the programme for the Meat Is Murder tour.