A FRENCH woman who handed over nearly £700,000 to a scammer pretending to be Brad Pitt with cancer revealed she's glad she did it.

Interior designer Anne Deneuchatel, 53, was left homeless and broke after a year-long affair with the online swindler who showered her in romantic poems and AI-generated photos and videos of the actor.

She divorced her husband, pocketed a £670,000 (€775,000) settlement, and started wiring cash to the scammer .

But despite the torment - resulting in three suicide attempts and being hospitalised for depression - she said one "positive thing" came out of it.

The scam forced Anne to divorce her millionaire husband who she said had turned out to be "selfish and manipulative".

He reportedly made her close her boutique, forcing her to become financially dep

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