local source told the Daily Star on Sunday: “Cilla was a huge part of village life when her boys were younger but kept herself to herself in recent years."Penny Walker, the star's housekeeper, was considered one of Cilla's closest friends.In fact, the pair were so close that Cilla left her £20,000 in her will, according to court papers revealed in the Sun.Reports around the time of her death claimed the star saw the employee as "part of the family" after working for her for more than three decades.News of the star's passing shocked the world in 2016.
The 72-year-old was sunbathing when she lost her balance, fell and hit her head, which knocked her unconscious.A sobering autopsy report confirmed that her cause of death had been a subarachnoid haemorrhage - a form of stroke caused by bleeding on the brain.Andre Rebello described how her eldest son Robert discovered his mum on the terrace of her Costa del Sol luxury villa in Estepona, at 5.30pm on August 1..
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