Jade's diary tells of cancer battle

12 April 2012

Jade Goody's final autobiographical book has been published, nearly a month after the reality TV star lost her battle with cancer.

The diary, Jade: Forever In My Heart, chronicles her battle with cervical cancer from the day she was diagnosed while taking part in the Indian version of Celebrity Big Brother last August to her death on March 22.

In a foreword, her mother Jackiey Budden writes that the book bears witness to the courage and good humour with which she fought the disease.

Ms Budden also chronicles the last six days of Goody's life, when she was too weak to write herself, and describes holding her daughter's hand as the life finally slipped from her in the early hours of Mothering Sunday.

Goody, a former dental nurse from Bermondsey, south London, made no secret of her desire to use media interest in her disease to make money for her young sons Bobby and Freddy, who will receive royalties.

HarperCollins, which published the hardback at £15.99, will make a donation of £25,000 to Marie Curie Cancer Care.

The book ends with a wish list Goody compiled for her boys, in which she expresses her desire for them to visit a country in the developing world to make them understand how privileged their lives are.

She also says she wants them to have Porsches as their first cars and have "good jobs that pay a lot of money".

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