who she is now living with. She says: "The mine has given me another Edison. His nature and his principles were all left down there." She attempts to manage his dates and to focus his activities -- trying to turn the singing into a possible career in motivational speaking. They performed successfully together to business people at a packed conference in the O2 centre in London earlier in the year. Both are aware there is a small window of time to establish themselves -- but the cost has been high. It is a constant struggle as Edison veers between a rational understanding of what is going on and the darkness he clearly experienced down the mine. There is an underlying anger in him that occasionally explodes in shouting matches and drunken binges. He has frittered much of the money away partying with his brother. Even his mother wonders whether her son should not be hospitalised. Anglica is bitter: "If both God and the devil were down that mine, I think that probably the devil took him." This spring Anglica persuaded him to go into detox. She -- as with the other women I have met -- has not once had any offer of support or help from the authorities. No one thought that they might be victims, too. Last autumn, the world enjoyed a good news story and moved on, vaguely expecting that these new celebrities were now made for life -- the least they could expect for the experience