“I had 4000 by the time I lost my job” Carol Radull narrates how she squandered 6 figure salary in binge drinking

Classic FM presenter Carol Radull started earning good money while she was still a very young lady. And she wasted it all on drinking sprees.

Radull opened up her love for the drink during an interview with the Nairobian. She reveals that her six figure salary at BBC supported her knack for binge drinking.

“I started earning good money when I was very young. Despite earning a six-figure salary, I was not saving. I would walk into a bar with almost 20 friends and shout ‘peweni!’ My account was always at zero every end of the month,” reveals Radull.

Meagre saving

Radull further reveals that she was only saving a tiny fraction of her six figure salary. She says she had only Kes 4000 in her bank account by the time BBC fired her.

“I had a savings account which had Sh4,000 by the time I lost my job. I was a spendthrift. If you ask me what I did with the money, I wouldn’t know because I did not save.”

Survived on good will

Friends and family paid Radull’s bills when she was laid off. She says her sister paid her rent for six month before a film director who offered her job in Rwanda also paid her 6 month rent.

“My sister paid my rent for six months. Luckily, Nick Hughes (Vivid Features director) called me for a job in Rwanda where he was shooting a story about the Rwandan Genocide. Nick paid my rent for another six months. I later got a job at Citizen TV for a short time. It was shut down by the government as soon as I started getting comfortable. I was jobless after three months. I felt like I was running out of luck.”