Jade Goody’s mum Jackiey Budden has spoken about her daughter’s last days before her death two months ago.

Big Brother star Jade died of cancer on Mother’s Day in March. She was released from hospital earlier in the month after she requested to die in her own home, where she was cared for by Jackiey, her new husband Jack Tweed, close friend Kevin Adams and specialist cancer nurses.

Jackiey explained: “We stopped all other visitors to preserve Jade’s dignity. Because Jade wasn’t just dying, she was disintegrating.

“She wasn’t scared of dying. She just didn’t want to die and for a while she wouldn’t even close her eyes because she thought she’d go in her sleep.

“Me, Jack and Kevin took it in turns to hold her hand and talk to her. By this stage she was on a really whacked up epidural for the pain which just got worse and worse. Sometime she would howl but straight away the nurses would give her an injection which just took her out of it.

“Other times she would be conscious and pain free and have really funny burst-outs.”

“For the last week all of us were saying ‘Go now Jade, you can go now’ because the longer she hung on the worse her pain became. The cancer had smashed up her entire body and she’d lost the use of virtually all her organs but she still fought and fought and fought.

“Jack was amazing in those last weeks. He brushed Jade’s teeth, washed her body then creamed her afterwards.

“It even made the MacMillan nurses cry that a 21-year-old boy could care for his wife so gently and beautifully.”

She added though that Jack buried himself in cushions when the time finally came: “I must have dozed off after a while because then I felt a nurse tapping my shoulder. It had just gone half past two and the nurse simply said ‘Jackiey, she is ready’.

“I ran into the other room to tell Kevin and Jack. Then Jack lifted all the cushions off the sofa and piled them over his head. I think he just wanted to be in darkness and to be with Jade. So as she passed, it was like he was passing with her.

“Kevin and I went and held hands with Jade and slowly said the Lord’s Prayer. Kevin was still saying the prayer and as he came to the last few words, ‘Forever and ever, Amen’, Jade passed.

“I stood up and kissed her on the lips - once from myself and once from Jack. Her body was still warm but her lips were already cold.”

Jade was survived by Jackiey, Jack and her two children from a previous relationship, Bobby and Freddie.