Riches To Rags: Millionaire Footballers Who Lose Everything

At the peak of his career, Lee Hendrie was earning more than £30,000 a week playing for Aston Villa in the Premier League.
He won an England cap and was considered one of the best young English players of the late 1990s, in the same generation as Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand and Steven Gerrard.

But at the age of 35, his days of luxury cars and million-pound houses are well and truly behind him. In January 2012, faced with spiralling debts and repossession, Hendrie was declared bankrupt after twice trying to take his own life.

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