NIKKI Grahame's devastated ex Pete Bennett said she begged him to save her after she revealed her secret illness to him. The 39-year-old reality star, who struck up a romance with Nikki on the 2006 series, shared his heartbreak at losing his friend.
Pete revealed that he received a phone call from her when she was at her lowest. However, the Big Brother star explained that he was unfortunately too "busy at the time" to help her.
Speaking on Sky News today, he said: "I knew she was ill in the last lockdown - she told me not to say that she was getting care. "She rang me up and said 'Pete I'm ill, come and get me in the clinic' - I was busy at the time." You're Not Alone EVERY 90 minutes in the UK a life is lost to suicide.
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