A hairdresser who lost £70,000 playing online slot machines in just one afternoon has urged other women to seek help with their gambling addictions after turning her own life around. Christine Tolaini, 39, has enjoyed gambling for as far back as she remembers, as a small child she loved playing on the 2p and 10p machines.
At the age of 21, she went to Las Vegas for the first time and realised she was more excited by gambling than her friends. And by the age of 22 she even had a time share hotel room in Sin City and visited it once a year so she could gamble.
Despite the thrill of casino gambling, the real addiction didn’t start until a decade later when she started online betting. In 2016 the hairdresser started to gamble away all her earnings and racked up hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of credit card debt.
