Celebrity Traitors star Charlotte Church has been forced to shut down the business she poured all her cash into after just three years of it being open.
The singer, 40, who shot to fame as a child star in the 1990s and at her peak was understood to be worth around £25 million, previously revealed that those days are over - she is "no longer a millionaire." Now, in a fresh blow, it has been announced that she will be closing her Welsh healing retreat, The Dreaming.
Church opened the wellness centre at Rhydoldog House, which was once the home of fashion designer Laura Ashley, after buying the property for around £1.5 million in 2023. The retreat offered a blend of sound healing, nature-based therapy and spiritual practice in the Welsh countryside.
The closure was announced in a poetic statement released on the retreat's channels: "Dear Dreamers, after five years of unfaltering practice, tending with diligence to the dreams of the land and our guests, we announce with hearts-a-brim that The Dreaming will be pausing its work at Rhydoldog from December 2026."
The statement continued in the same lyrical register: "Through the harvest season, it is important to discern what requires attention from that which is falling away, what needs to be put to compost. We need the chance to compost, mulch, go fallow, listen deeply to the earth, so that we can germinate new dreams for the future. And so we must dream. And to do so we must hibernate. We cannot say when exactly we will be returning from the dream realm, but return we shall."
The closure marks a poignant chapter in one of British pop's most unusual career arcs. Church was one of the biggest-selling child stars of her generation, a classical crossover sensation whose fortune once seemed inexhaustible. In recent years she has been candid about how that wealth evaporated - spent, she has said, on the people and projects around her - and about her embrace of a very different life as a wellness practitioner, mother and activist in Wales.
The Dreaming was the fullest expression of that reinvention: a physical space built around her beliefs about healing, community and the natural world. Its closure after three years suggests the economics of running a rural retreat proved as challenging as the spiritual work was rewarding.
Church appeared on Celebrity Traitors, and her openness about her changed financial circumstances has won her admiration from fans who see her as unusually honest about the realities of fame and money. The retreat's farewell message leaves the door open to a return - "return we shall" - but for now, the dream is going into hibernation.