As one of the faces of the 1960s, Faithfull carved out a side-career as an actor.

She appeared at London’s Royal Court in an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, alongside Glenda Jackson.

She became the first person ever to utter the F-word in a mainstream film, I’ll Never Forget What’sisname, in 1967.

A year later, she starred opposite Alain Delon, as a doomed, leather-clad beauty in The Girl on a Motorcycle.

Her character’s psychedelic and erotic fantasies saw the film win the first ever X-rating in the United States.

Of course, there were a lot of drugs.

During a police raid on Keith Richards’ house in Sussex, Faithfull was discovered naked, draped in a fur rug – which she took indecent pleasure in occasionally letting slip.

Allegations involving a Mars bar, she insisted, were entirely made up. But the drugs bust took a toll on her reputation. “It destroyed me,” she later said.

“To be a male drug addict and to act like that is always enhancing and glamorising, she explained.

“A woman in that situation becomes a slut and a bad mother.”