Emotional Nicola Roberts reveals wish Sarah Harding didn’t get to fulfill before death-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro

Nicola Roberts choked back tears as she remembered her friend Sarah Harding during an emotional interview.

The Girls Aloud singer appeared on Friday’s episode of Good Morning Britain two years after her bandmate and friend died aged 39 following a battle with breast cancer.

A new project is underway which could help predict the risk of younger women getting the disease, and Nicola admitted Sarah would have loved to have been able to support the research.

‘Her and Doctor Sasha, her surgeon, became very close, he was someone she could really lean on. He, over the course of her treatment, was talking to her about this research he was very passionate about himself,’ she said.

‘Her wish was that she could have participated in all the fundraising we did last year.’

Nicola added: ‘It just didn’t go that way for her, unfortunately.’

Nicola Roberts choked back tears during her appearance on Good Morning Britain (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

She admitted it’s difficult to talk about Sarah Harding in interviews sometimes (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

Girls Aloud members Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle, Nicola and Cheryl have kept their friend’s legacy going (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for The Londoner)

The 37-year-old star was visibly emotional as she discussed how grief is ‘different’ for everyone’, and she still has moments when she almost forgets Sarah is no longer with us.

‘I think that everybody deals with grief in different ways. Some people face it head on. For me, I think for me it’s just still not really that real,’ she revealed. ‘I think a lot of the time I’m like, “She’s in Thailand on a beach or she’s in Ibiza with her friends”. And then I’m reminded that she’s not.’

‘It’s really hard,’ she quietly admitted before trying to compose herself, having said earlier in the chat that it can be difficult speaking about Sarah’s death in interviews.

Sarah Harding died age 39 in September 2021 (Picture: Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage)

‘It’s unbelievably conflicting,’ she confessed. You have to somewhat emotionally switch off to be able to get through the chat. ‘From something so heartbreaking, we’re here to talk about something hopeful and it’s that progression that you have to focus on, otherwise you’d just fall apart.’

However, Nicola also pointed to the importance of her friends and family building on the ‘legacy’ she built through her music, and supporting those going through their own cancer battles.

‘She’s already created a legacy in her performances, in her singing and her songs. To then add this huge scenario of such magnitude to her legacy – it shouldn’t have been this way,’ she said.

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‘But for her to carry that legacy on, and we can take that baton on for her and help younger women, and help the women her age who grew up with us as a band. [That] was so important for her.’

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.

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