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I will love you always: Jade Goody

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Jade Goody wrote one last letter to her sons before she died telling them: ‘I will love you always.’

The reality TV star, who lost her battle with cancer on Mother’s Day, penned the poignant letter to Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie, in the weeks before she died.

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She wrote it as the foreword to a special picture album that she put together for her sons to remember her by.

It read: ‘Dear Bobby and Freddie – I have asked for this book to be made so that when you are older, you can remember just how much fun we had.

‘I thank God that we made the most of our time together and I treasure the moments we shared.’

The picture album contains hundreds of snaps of her rise to fame since she entered the Big Brother house in 2002 as well as many of Jade and her sons together.

One shows them riding a camel on holiday in Abu Dhabi last year, while another shows her teaching Freddie to fish.

There’s also a happy family snap of 27-year-old Jade, husband Jack Tweed, 21, and the boys splashing in a stream while on a break in Wales last year.

The letter added: ‘These are my most precious memories. Some person much wiser than me once said that if you never discovered something you would die for, then you haven’t lived.

‘Well, you are both proof that I have lived. I will love you always. Mummy.’

Jade’s ‘wise’ words come from a speech made by civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jnr in Detroit, Michigan in June 1963.

The book, called Remember Me This Way, will be published on Monday and sold to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Meanwhile Tweed’s friends rallied round him yesterday and took him out for the day to Thorpe Park adventure park to lift his spirits.

He looked cheered by the effort as he went on the park’s new Saw thrill ride.

Later however he struggled to contain his emotions as he stopped at Jade’s Essex home to read the hundreds of floral tributes left outside.

Jade Goody, U.K. reality TV star, dies of cancer

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Jade Goody, a dental assistant turned reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera and morality tale in Britain, has died. The 27-year-old had cancer and died in her sleep early Sunday at her home in Essex, southeast England, her publicist Max Clifford said.

Goody gained fame at 21 in 2002, when she joined the reality television show “Big Brother,” in which contestants live together for weeks and are constantly filmed. Loud and brash, she became a highly divisive star — initially mocked as an ignorant slob, then celebrated as a forthright everywoman by a hungry tabloid press.

It was a pattern of praise and condemnation that followed her for the rest of her life. Goody became a national touchstone who sparked debate about race, class and celebrity in Britain.