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UK – EXCLUSIVE Francesca Freeman would inflict pain on doctors, bankers and lawyers earning up to £3,000 a week but having tormented more than 1,000 willing men, she has become a sex therapist

High-heeled dominatrix Francesca Freeman made a decent living out of lashing men – but now has hung up her whips to have a crack at a new job.

Francesca would charge £250 an hour to inflict excruciating pain on eager, submissive clients.

Kinky regulars included doctors, bankers and lawyers.

In tight black latex, Francesca made them plead for her to walk all over them.

She blindfolded them and beat them with ­cat-o’-nine-tails, canes, whips and paddles.

And they lapped it up. Business was good for Francesca, who earned up to £3,000 a week and made the most of it with a lavish lifestyle.

Satisfied clients, who knew her as Angelica Andrew, showered her with gifts such as £3,500 Ralph Lauren bags and Louis Vuitton boots.

One man flew her business class to St Lucia for a three-day session and paid her with a £16,000 BMW.

As well as physical punishment, Francesca would set the men strict homework –­ ­ordering them to send her raunchy pics of themselves while at work.

One client, a surgeon, sent rude snaps to her between performing operations.

But after 15 years of sadistic entertaining, Francesca decided to knock it on the head.

Having tormented more than 1,000 willing men, she has become a sex therapist.

Today she is more likely to straighten out men’s kinks rather than indulge them.

It was a painful episode in her own life that made her seek a fresh path.

Francesca had a romance with a man she met in a pub in the summer of 2017.

He was the love of her life but he split up with her and it broke her heart.

She recalled: “I was devastated and completely broken when he left me and I realised the men who came to see me were in pain too.

“I was masking their pain. I decided I wanted to really help them and help myself too. And that wasn’t hitting men with a whip.

“I look back now and think thank goodness I had this spiritual ­­awakening or I could have ended up in prison.

“The things I was doing to these men were becoming increasingly extreme and could’ve easily gone wrong.”

As a life coach, Francesca, 56, a single mum with an eight-year-old son, is helping men with kinky fetishes and submissive tendencies beat their sex addictions.

She said: “I had an ­incredible lifestyle as a high-class dominatrix and thought I was really happy.

“But after I was dumped I was heartbroken and fell into depression. I carried on working but realised I was taking out my anger and hurt on the men who came to see me. I thought ‘what am I doing? This is mad.’

“I’d always known that the men who came to see me were in emotional pain but I didn’t care about that.

“I didn’t care about the pain I was causing them either.

“At some point I began ­talking to my ­clients and ­­realised they were seeking ­escapism with me because of their ­traumatic pasts.

“It was a cycle of abuse I needed to stop.

“I wasn’t ­helping them or myself, so I ­decided to quit and re-train to help men.”

She found many of her clients were vulnerable and some were simply trying to escape the monotony of their daily lives.

She said: “I didn’t want to carry that on and vowed to help them battle their demons and sex ­­addictions.

“Men and ­women tend to think their ­masochistic tendencies are wired into their core but they’re usually a result of past trauma.

“Leaving the industry was an easy decision and I cried with disgust at the end of my last session.”

Francesca, who has not had sex with any of her ­former clients, sold all her possessions and spent a month at a retreat in South Goa, India, learning meditation, yoga and ­healthier ways to combat trauma.

Back in the UK she moved to a rented two-bed bungalow, converted a room into a ­studio and set up life coaching ­business Mind Body Men.

It aims to “empower and release men from stress” and steer them from the darker side of the sex ­industry for instant gratification.

Her one-on-one sessions for men include life coaching, guided meditation, yoga and massage.

She offers life coaching ­sessions for women – though none of her female clients are sex addicts or have masochistic tendencies. And she plans to train in hypnotherapy.

Her income has taken a hit. The rates are £80 an hour instead of £250 for S&M sessions.

Flash cars and holidays have been replaced by a ­modest Fiat Punto and gentle family breaks.

Francesca, of Milton Keynes, Bucks, says: “My life isn’t about money any more.

Instead of weeks in the sun while staying in all-inclusive ­hotels, I’ll take my son ­camping in Wales.”

Old clients still beg her for ­dominatrix sessions but she refuses them.

She said: “I’ve helped 30 men fight sex addictions and kinks, ­including five previous clients. I’m really proud of that.

“Focusing on my son and business is so much more rewarding.

“The men I’ve helped recently thanked me so much for helping them.

“They said I’ve changed their lives for the better.”