An Exeter sex worker has spoken out about a 'hate campaign' that forced her to leave the city for London.
Charlotte Rose, 34, said she wanted to become the UK's number one sex guru after appearing in a Channel 4 series on prostitution called 'Love For Sale' alongside actor Rupert Everett.
But her outspoken attitude to the sex industry and her boasts of being the most expensive escort in the South West – charging £200 an hour for her services – were not welcomed by all locals.
In an interview with the Echo, Charlotte claimed she was hounded-out of the city through a backlash against her from the a small minority of the public.
"It's horrible that just because I choose to do this job I am being forced out of my family home where I don't even work," she said.
The former teacher decided to move to the capital after being evicted from her family home in the Stoke Hill area of the city with her teenage son and daughter.
Her landlord, who lives in Switzerland, gave no reason for telling her "out of the blue" to vacate the three-bedroom property in August.
"What other reason would it be apart from my profession? I don't do any harm, I don't make noise and I am just normal." she said.
Charlotte largely blames her exit on a neighbour who apparently objected to her risque line of work and contacted her landlord to complain about her.
"Nobody deserves to be pushed out of their family home," she said. "But it seems that some people have a status which says 'I can't live next to a prostitute', because it might somehow devalue their house or their status."
The move is likely to split the family apart: Charlotte's 13-year-old daughter likely to follow her to London, but her 14-year-old son would prefer to live with his father in Nottingham.
Charlotte says the ordeal has left her stressed, upset and not being able to sleep at night.
"It's going to take me a while to settle down, because I'm still angry and disappointed about being judged for what I do for a living. I don't think I can take another dig at my job," she said.
Charlotte, who won a British Erotic Award for Sex Worker of the Year 2013, admits the "media attention" she received from the television series may have prompted a backlash against her.
She recently launched a sexual training franchise as part of a determination to help people across the country to improve their sex lives.
She said: "I enjoy my work, but maybe some people aren't happy in their lives and complain about others to feel better about themselves."
The fallout with her neighbour reached a tipping point when Charlotte openly recorded video evidence of alleged verbal abuse against her and damage to her car.
Previously she had problems at another flat near the city centre where a neighbour allegedly spat in her face, broke into her flat and gave her death threats.
She joked: "Ideally I'd live in a house with a moat, drawer bridge and no neighbours."
Charlotte moved to Devon in 2003 following the end of seven year relationship with the father of her two children. She decided to become as escort to combine two of her passions – people and sex.
She said: "Unfortunately Devon is slightly behind the times. People see my work as degrading, immoral and beneath them. They probably think I stand on a street corner in fishnet stocking with PVC boots. But I've always been open and honest about who I am and what I actually do. Why can't people just accept me?"
She is moving to London in the hope of living alongside people who "won't care" about what she does for a living.
She joked: "In London I could walk down the street with a tea cosy on my head and nobody would care.
"But if I walked down the High Street in Exeter with a tea cosy on my head, everybody would point and stare. They would take a photo, put me on Facebook and say 'Oh my gosh! Look at this crazy loon. "
She launched a £5,000 fundraising campaign for the move, and is selling a variety of possessions on Ebay and Gumtree.
"I'm trying to do anything and everything to raise as much money as I can," she said.
