Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan has spoken for the first time about the moments that led up to the death of her sister Darci Rose aged 19.
The 33-year-old first shared the news in October that her half-sister had died, in a post on Instagram.
She has now spoken about the moment she woke in the middle of the night to 130 missed calls and her mum’s text message urging her to get to Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Darcis suffered an accidental drug overdose, dying just 48 hours after taking crystal MDMA at Manchester’s Warehouse Project nightclub.
In a new interview with the Daily Mail, Holly described the unimaginable horror of seeing her sister in a hospital bed, covered in tubes and wires, with blood coming from her mouth and nose.
Darci’s eyes had been taped shut and Holly said her grieving mother’s screams will be ‘etched’ into her mind forever.
Holly told the publication: ‘I opened the curtain, and I have never seen anything like that in my life. I hope no parent or sibling ever has to see anything like that.
Darci had suffered two cardiac arrests and a brain scan delivered the devastating news that she was brain-dead.
The doctors then performed a series of tests on Darci to look for signs of life, including stopping her oxygen for 10 minutes to see if she would breathe independently, but she did not.
‘This will sound awful, but in a way, I can’t say glad, but it was a better option than there being some signs of life and for her to come out of that in a way that wouldn’t have been her, and she wouldn’t have any quality of life,’ said Holly.
‘That would have been so unbelievably difficult for everyone.
‘It being so final, there was nothing else anybody could do, it was closure. She was 100 per cent brain-dead. Sometimes I can say things too bluntly and it can come across in a weird way but unless you have experienced it, you have no idea how you’re going to react or feel. She died at 16:23.’
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