NIKKI Grahame’s devastated mum has revealed all on the star’s tragic anorexia battle as she feared gaining weight in lockdown.
The Big Brother legend‘s mum Sue appeared on This Morning today and told viewers her daughter’s health battle was sparked when gyms closed as the star dreaded eating if she couldn’t exercise.
The reality star, 38, checked into a specialist facility last week after her desperate friends managed to raise enough cash to start paying for life-saving care.
And Sue told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield that gyms closing and Nikki‘s growing isolation as she lived alone triggered her relapse.
She said: “With Covid, it sounds crazy but stuff like gyms closing impacted her.
“In order for her to eat she needs to know she can exercise, so when they closed it was quite a worry, the isolation as well.
“I asked her if she would come and stay with me but she said she needs to be in her home.”
“She was (suffering terminal loneliness) she felt very cut off and spending too much time on her own with not enough to think about other than food.
“It all came to a grinding halt. Also for Nikki, she would muddle herself through the year knowing she’s got friends abroad and she would visit them.
“She spent a lot of time last year cancelling holidays.”
Nikki’s mum also shared the moment she realised “something was wrong” with the star aged just seven years old.
