Former Bond Girl Died Drinking Drain Cleaner

A former Bond girl died after drinking drain cleaner and pouring it over herself, the inquest into her death has heard.

Angela Scoular, 65, drank the corrosive liquid after battling with alcoholism, manic depression and worries over debts, Westminster Coroner's Court heard.

The British actress played Ruby Bartlett alongside George Lazenby in the 1969 Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

She was married to comic actor Leslie Phillips, who starred in the Carry On films.
Scoular suffered 40% burns to her body, throat and dietary tract with the cleaner, which was 91% sulphuric acid, the court heard.

She was pronounced dead on April 11 this year, just over two hours after drinking the drain cleaner.

Coroner Fiona Wilcox ruled she committed suicide while the balance of her mind was disturbed.

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Scoular's character Ruby and 11 other women, all of whom suffer from allergies, are undergoing "treatment" by Bond's enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

When Bond travels to Blofeld's clinic in Switzerland under the guise of heraldry expert Sir Hilary Bray, Ruby is immediately attracted to Bond.

When she is told not to mention her room number by Blofeld's henchwoman Irma Bunt, she proceeds to write it on the inside of Bond's leg using her lipstick.