Fifty Shades of Grey writer EL James has amassed a £123 million fortune with her erotic novels and films — but her personal life is hardly lacking drama of its own. The London-born author, whose real name is Erika Mitchell, reveals she suffered a terrifying bout of amnesia before lockdown while staying at her £1.1 million Cornwall home with husband, screenwriter Niall Leonard. 'I just forgot everything. I phoned my husband who was walking the dogs and he came back and found me sitting in my little study and I couldn't remember where I was,' says James, 58. 'I was put in an ambulance and blue-lighted to Truro.'