March 22 2023 marks 14 years since the heartbreaking death of Jade Goody, who lost her battle with cervical cancer at the age of just 27 in 2009.
The reality star shot to fame on the third series of Channel 4's Big Brother in 2002 and made a name for herself in the media throughout her multiple TV appearances.
After a number of health scares, Jade had to undergo a year of chemotherapy and a hysterectomy but surgeons made the heartbreaking discovery that the cancer had already spread.
The star sacrificed her final days to make sure her sons Bobby and Freddy would be provided for.
Jade worked right up until her death, with pictures, reality shows and interviews in a bid to make as much money as possible for her sons.
Jade didn't want to know what her diagnosis was, and told Phillip Schofield on This Morning: "I just want to carry on being to the boys and to myself normal and I'm quite naive with the whole cancer thingy.
"I haven't done any research or anything and I don't want to know. I only know what I need to know, which is this is my medication and this is that, this is when I get better.
"I don't want to know the ins and outs and because it's too much for my brain to take it in. It really is."
But on Valentine's Day in 2009 the doctors had no choice but to tell Jade that the cancer had spread to her liver.
She shared: "I couldn't breathe when they told me. I just screamed and cried and said, 'can't anyone do anything to help me'.
"A few weeks ago when they first told me the chemo hadn't worked they said it didn't have to be the end.
"I know they've done everything they can to help me and I'm grateful. But I really thought I might be OK.
Jade had to tell her sons, and she and the father of her sons, Jeff Brazier, wrote a script together.
They decided they'd tell their sons that Jade would be a star in the sky who'd they'd always be able to see.
Jeff told Mail on Sunday's You magazine: "She didn't want to tell them, but she knew she had to do it because she wanted them to know the truth.
"The thought of that always reduces me to tears. Our poor boys, Poor Jade."
As her condition deteriorated, Jade was only able to stay awake for short periods of time, including when the boys were christened at the chapel in the hospital.
Jade spent her final days at her home in Essex with husband Jack lying next to her bed on the floor.
He shared of her final days: "She'd tell me to be quiet so I didn't wake the baby. I used to go along with it and pretend to take the baby and call Jackiey in and pretend to give the baby to her.
"I'd then ask Jade whether she was OK and she'd say: 'Yes that's fine, now I can sleep.'"
In her final days, Jade's devotion to her sons remained unbreakable despite being so weak.
And just two days before she died she heard her five year old son Bobby crying.
She managed to get herself out of bed to go to her son, and close friend Kevin Adams told The Sun at the time: "She wasn't eating and the doctor said her health was deteriorating rapidly.
"But that night Jade got up, walked upstairs and pulled [Bobby] up onto her back and brought him to her hospital bed.
"The next day I told the doctor what had happened and she said, 'no Jade doesn't have the strength to do that because everything in her body is failing'.
"I told her that I saw it with my own eyes. She was able to do it because those kids meant everything to her. That memory will live with me forever, it is so special to me."
14 years after her tragic death, Jade's sons are both making a name for themselves, with Bobby going on to have a successful modelling career and now appearing as Freddie Slater on EastEnders.
Freddie is also taking an interest in modelling, with the 17-year-old made his modelling debut with his first fashion shoot for HERO magazine.
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