Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan, 33, has shared her ‘immeasurable grief’ at her sister Darci Rose’s death aged 19.
In an emotional statement on social media, she wrote: ‘It is with immeasurable grief and sadness that our baby girl, my baby sister Darci Rose passed away peacefully holding my hand surrounded by family and her best friends.
‘She was never in any pain.’
Sharing that ‘the last four days have been something I hope no family ever has to go through,’ she added: ‘We are traumatised in every sense of the word.’
Hagan said that ‘one day’ they will share Darci’s story but for now have asked for ‘privacy’ as their family ‘process what has happened’.
After thanking the emergency and medical services at Manchester Royal Infirmary for ‘giving [her] sister the absolute best chance’ she said that they all had the chance to ‘hold her hand, stroke her hair and feel her heart beating for the last time.’
She then spoke about her sister, saying: ‘Darci is so beautiful and she genuinely didn’t even realise it.
‘I always told her she’d look better without the huge spider lashes but we all know what a hypocrite I was being since I wore nine pairs at her age!
‘She lived in Darci world, forgetting to turn lights off, didn’t know how to lock doors after coming in from a night out, leaving the freezer open so my mam came down to a puddle of defrosted food.’
Praising her as ‘the best aunty’, she shared that Darci had wanted to go into ‘social work’.
She concluded: ‘I don’t know if I’m behaving in a way I assumed I would when grieving but I genuinely feel she has given me so much strength and is watching over us all as our guardian angel.
‘We love you so much baby girl. Forever 19.’
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