Big Brother Nikki Grahame has died at the age 38 – just one month after her friends started a GoFundMe page for anorexia treatment.
Nikki rose to fame after appearing on the 2006 series of Big Brother and had struggled with anorexia since she was a child.
She had recently checked into a private hospital to treat her eating disorder and her friends had started a crowdfunding page to help with her treatment.
Her sad death was confirmed online by her friend Leon Dee on Saturday.
A statement on the GoFundMe page read: ‘It is with great sadness, we have to let you know that our dear friend Nikki passed away in the early hours of Friday 9th April.
‘It breaks our hearts to know that someone who is so precious was taken from us at such a young age.
Nikki was always incredible open about her struggles with anorexia, after first showing signs of the condition as a child.
Due to her condition she has never had a period or produced eggs which would allow her to conceive and in 2019 revealed she had visited fertility clinics in London.
After first being admitted to an eating disorder unit at the age of eight, she was force-fed through a tube, which caused long-term damage to her oesophagus from years of purging.
In 2011, Nikki suffered a relapse after reducing her daily intake to just 400 calories a day.
Several stars have paid tribute to Nikki since news of her tragic death was revealed, with pal and fellow Big Brother alum Rylan Clark-Neal saying he was thinking of the ‘icon’s’ family and close friends.