PICTURES Jade Goody - an extraordinary life

Jade Goody May 2002

Born 5 June 1981, Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody's parents split up when she's a toddler. She spends part of her childhood in foster care but is reunited with mum Jackiey Budden and grows up in Bermondsey, London. 'She taught me to roll my first spliff aged 4,' recalls Jade. Jackiey - a bisexual - loses the use of her left arm in a motorcycle accident. Jade tries desperately to stop her mother taking crack cocaine. Her heroin-addicted dad Andrew Goody spends four years in prison for robbery.

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