Things started falling apart for Ron when his 28-year-old Filipino lover was told by the Home Office she could no longer stay in the UK and would have to return home. But before they could get married, she packed her bags and fled, leaving Ron devastated.
He said: "I’m devastated by this, I did everything for that girl and she does a runner, I feel like such a mug."
Ron met Cristel when he lived in Thailand with wife number seven and her friend Wan. The trio would socialise regularly. After his 7th marriage collapsed, he lost contact with Cristel but after his marriage to eighth wife Weng started to break down he struck up a friendship with Cristel in 2015.
Ron flew to the Philippines and spent that Christmas with the mother-of-one and her family in their rural home in Lubao, Pampanga. Then on New Year’s Eve, he asked her to marry him. She arrived the UK last November and lived at his home in Somerton, Somerset.
After they met, Ron, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease amongst other ailments, said: "This one is real love. This is the last one. I promise."
Cristel also insisted at the time that she was not using the sickly pensioner just as a way to get to Britain.
She said: "I know what it looks like but I am not here for a passport. I am not here to take advantage of Ron."
But things soon began to fall apart and Ron said "cracks began to appear" in their relationship. Ron revealed they did not have sex because she claimed she was a devoted Christian and sex before marriage was forbidden. He agreed to wait but she became cold and withdrawn. All through the relationship, she spent her days listening to music and taking selfies. He also disclosed that Cristel was still married in the Philippines, despite pledging to divorce.
Fighting back tears, he said: "We had no love life, nothing whatsoever because she insisted she was a committed Christian and did not believe in sex before marriage. I respected that and hoped at least she would become my carer but she just became more distant. She hated my Norman Wisdom impressions, she had no idea who he was. She’d just sit there with her earphones in taking selfies and I’d have to shout her name just to get her to look at me."
Ron still applied for a carer’s visa for Cristel in the hope they could spend their lives together.
But he added: "I should have known when she lost her engagement ring things were not right. Then she started going out a lot and making new friends. Even after her visa was denied I thought there might be a chance but she just grew so cold and distant.
"Then, on Saturday, she told me she was going out. She looked at me for a long time and said she was flying home next week and wished me goodbye. I now know she was saying goodbye for ever, I checked her room after she left and realised she had taken all of her luggage. I can’t reach her at all and her she has blocked me on Facebook. A friend has told me she met another man since she has been here and is now with him. I am devastated beyond words. I loved that woman with all my heart. But I thought it was for the best I phoned the police and the Border Agency just in case she was trying to stay illegally."
He said: "Cristel won’t put me off looking for love. Wife number nine is still out there, I just have to find her. As far as I’m concerned I’m back on the market. I’m not going to say I haven’t already had women contacting me, I don’t know what it is about me, women just seem to flock to me. I’m batting them off. I think it could be my natural charm and charisma. I am great at impressions, I can do 54 different people like Norman Wisdom and Frank Spencer. Although I’ve got to be honest after all this time I sometimes think women could just be too much trouble. But I am determined to not die alone, I refuse to end up in a home and I will find someone who will love me for who I am."
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