Maura Higgins has admitted that she blamed herself for the tragic death of her best friend in 2017.
The Love Island star explained how her friend Andrew Ronan lost his life in a motorbike accident.
“He had finished work early and and he asked me to go to dinner with him and I said, ‘I couldn’t be bothered’. I told him I was in my pyjamas , I wasn’t getting dressed,” Maura told Life Magazine.
“He arrived down the motorbike. I asked him, ‘Why are you on the motorbike?’ Because he never used to drive it…And then he left.”
Andrew then sadly passed away after being struck by a vehicle.
Maura told the mag how difficult she found dealing with her grief.
“It was a blur, I think I was in shock for a lot of it. I didn’t break down properly until late into that night.”
“I was still sitting on my sofa..and I remember something came into my head and just hit me, and I couldn’t physically breathe.”
“I was having such a panic attack. It took me a long, long time to be okay again.”
