Jackiey Budden: Guilt about Jade is killing me

Big Brother star’s mum regrets the past

Saturday, 30 May 2009

Jackiey Budden admits she often feels guilty about daughter Jade Goody.

The 51-year-old nursed the Big Brother star throughout her battle with cancer.

But she regrets that she was involved in drugs throughout Jade's childhood.

‘I can’t sleep even when I’m exhausted because every night the same things go through my mind: “How could I only be a mum when me daughter was dying?”' says Jackiey.

'The guilt is killing me. When she got ill Jade would say having cancer was the best thing that ever happened to her because it brought us closer. But that’s wrong. You shouldn’t be brought closer to your mum because you are that poorly.'

Jackiey made sure she was by Jade's side when she died on 22 March.

‘I so needed to be her mother again at the end, to make up for all the times I hadn’t been,’ Jackiey tells the Daily Mirror.

‘People tell me how proud Jade was of me in the last months and she told me herself but it’s not good enough.’

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