It’s been revealed that tragic Jade Goody begged her mother to smother her with a pillow as she struggled to cope in her last days.

The 27-year-old was being nursed at home by her husband Jack Tweed and mother Jackiey Budden who’s told OK magazine how hard it was to see her daughter slipping away.

Jackiey Budden described it as “heartbreaking” adding, “We watched her slowly disintegrate. It was more heartbreaking than just seeing someone die”

“She wasn’t in any pain, but it’s horrible for the people around it.”

And Jackiey revealed that as she was dying, Jade asked her to end her life… Read more & comment »

Sky News is reporting today that Jack Tweed “will spend at least six weeks behind bars after being handed a 12-week custodial sentence, half of which he may serve while out on licence.”

The report added that the court heard that under normal circumstances, Tweed would’ve been sent sentenced to 18 weeks, but the term was reduced “due to the events of the past weeks”.

“We have borne in mind the recent change in your personal circumstances and have reflected this in the length of the sentence,” said Magistrates chairwoman Margaret Webb.

Jack apparently didn’t show any emotion as magistrates sent him immediately to prison, but his mother Mary sobbed as she left the court… Read more & comment »

According to The People, grieving Jack Tweed “has been given the blessing to remarry one day by Jade Goody’s mother”.

Jade’s grieving mother Jackiey Budden told the magazine that Jack was too young to “spend the rest of his life by himself” adding, ‘”I know Jack will get another girlfriend. I know he will get married [again] and I really hope he does.

‘He is only 21 and has his whole life ahead of him so I can’t expect him to be single forever, and neither can anyone else.’

Jackiey and Jack haven’t always had the best of relationships and apparently they fell out after Jack wasn’t at Jade’s bedside following her bowel tumour operation… Read more & comment »

The bishop who married Jade Goody and Jack Tweed has leapt to Jade’s defence after Sir Michael Parkinson claimed that Jade represented “all that is wretched about Britain”.

Bishop Jonathan Blake said that the 74-year-old broadcaster had put the “boot in to a young woman so recently buried”.

Parkinson – writing in the Radio Times just days after Jade’s funeral – described her as “barely educated, ignorant and puerile”… Read more & comment »

Grieving Jack Tweed wants to be buried next to Jade Goody when he dies and the family have reportedly bought a double plot in the churchyard where Jade was laid to rest.

Heartbroken Jack, 21, told friends of his wish to be buried with Jade after he visited her grave following her burial on Saturday.

Wearing dark glasses, Jack took a deep breath and told friends: “If I go I want to be next to Jade so we can lie together for ever… Read more & comment »

Veteran chat show host Michael Parkinson has blasted late reality TV star Jade Goody saying of her that she was “all that’s paltry and wretched about Britain.

“Jade Goody has her own place in the history of television and, while it’s significant, it’s nothing to be proud of” he worte in the Radio Times.

He added, “Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it’s not the passing of a martyr or a saint or, God help us, Princess Di… Read more & comment »

The final chapter of Jade Goody’s publicity-fuelled career closes today as the reality TV star will be laid to rest.

Jade’s funeral procession is currently under way after her coffin was taken from the funeral director’s in London and placed in a vinatage Rolls Royce hearse.

Flowers were laid in the street outside funeral director’s F A Albin & Son in Bermondsey, many with warm tributes to the tragic star.

A staff member at F A Albin told Sky News that they’d “never known anything like it, not in 20 years”… Read more & comment »

Bobby and Freddie, Jade's sons

In Jade Goody’s final farewell to her boys via her book, she said she hoped her sons Bobby and Freddie would turn into “fine, upstanding young men”, and she said that their times together were her “most precious memories”, according to The Sun.

She also says that her husband Jack Tweed, mother Jackiey and the boys’ father Jeff Brazier would help bring the boys up between them.

Her message – published in the newspaper – comes from her book called Jade: Remember Me This Way, which is about her life and her final fight with cancer. It’s being published later this month with the profits going to Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Speaking directly to Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, Jade said: “I have asked for this book to be made so that when you are older you can remember just how much fun we had together… Read more & comment »

The Sun is reporting that Jade Goody’s family lare refusing to allow Jordan to attend Jade’s funeral, despite the fact that Jade “forgave” Jordan for criticising her over her very public cancer battle.

Apparently Jordan has “repeatedly asked to attend the ceremony” this Saturday in order to pay her respects but Jade’s family and friends have said she isn’t welcome and have blast the model’s “unbelievable hypocrisy”… Read more & comment »

Pop star Michael Jackson will not be attending Jade Goody’s funeral despite media reports that he’s eager to attend.

Rumours have circulated in the media that suggest Jackson has stated a desire to personally pay his respects at Jade’s funeral on 4th April.

However, Jade’s publicist Max Clifford has dismissed reports that Jackson will attend the service saying that the singer “didn’t want to detract attention” from Jade and her family on the day of her funeral… Read more & comment »