Shelley Duvall's Secret Hell!

ONCE the A-list star of hit flicks The Shining and Popeye, actress Shelley Duvall has become a recluse living in miserable squalor and babbling about space aliens as she battles her mental demons on a rundown Texas ranch.

The broken-down 67-year old looks more like a bag lady than the glamorous star who played Jack Nicholson’s wife in The Shining.

Duvall, coping with broken teeth, pimply skin and threadbare clothes, gave a shocking, heartbreaking exclusive interview to GLOBE on her Blanco, Texas, land.

“I’m miserable,” Shelley declared. “I really don’t want to die like this. I have no money. I’ve made five TV series and a whole bunch of movies and I have nothing.”

The rambling actress added she hates her house — where she lives with longtime companion Dan Gilroy — because “it’s covered in spider webs. I get bitten. I’m not happy. I feel like a prisoner here. And I don’t want to be.”

After a 1994 California earth quake, she moved back to her native Texas from her Studio City home with Gilroy, a former member of the 1980s band Breakfast Club, and who once dated Madonna.