Personal Life
After coming to fame in EastEnders, her personal life became the focus of many tabloid newspapers. She entered the soap cast in the later stages of a three-year relationship with Majorca based ex-criminal, Paul Whitworth. After being warned by BBC executives, she split with Whitworth, and had a holiday romance with 25 year-old American, Andy Burton, who immediately sold his story.
In 2004, Wallace was referred to as a "vile dog" by EastEnders colleague, Leslie Grantham, during a sordid webcam chat he had with a number of women in online chat rooms, which involved him stripping and masturbating on camera.
Wallace was once suspended from EastEnders by the BBC for excess drinking, partying, and adverse publicity, she returned to the soap, but was then stopped by police and arrested for driving one and half times over the limit. The BBC offered her counseling, but while attending County Court for sentencing, she was attended by policeman, Dave Morgan, in case she was accosted by fans. The couple started dating, and then moved in together after Wallace confirmed she was pregnant. Wallace gave birth to daughter, Tallulah Lilac, on 2 November 2004, but the couple split up shortly afterwards, with Wallace's lawyers placing a gag order on Morgan.
In a later tabloid story in late 2007, whilst Wallace was filming Wild at Heart in Johannesburg with her cousin, Jonathan and daughter Tallulah, her best friend, Stefan, suggested she still regularly took ketamine, Wallace admitted, at one point, taking drugs, but denied taking them since the birth of her daughter.
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