Nicola Roberts says the anniversary of Sarah Harding's death will always be an 'awful day'

Nicola Roberts has said that the anniversary of Sarah Harding's death will always be an "awful day".

Harding died of cancer on 5 September, 2021, and Roberts has spoken out about the grief she has feltsince the loss.

Appearing on Darren Kennedy's podcast The Number, the Girls Aloud singer said: "We had the first anniversary of it last September, and I just know every year it's going to be an awful day.

"[It's] just such a prevalent day out of the year now, it was just another day before [but] now that day has an anniversary and it has a meaning, it's a sad one."

She also talked about how Harding's death had affected her outlook on life: "I think it would be very easy to become extremely fearful, over time, when someone so young and so close to you has ran out of it, and I think it's important not to become obsessed with it, because things are still happening on their own, in your own time."

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She added: "I think it's important to still sort of go through the pace of your life as you were, and not become frantic about your time possibly coming to an end, or someone else that you love's time possibly coming to an end. I think that is a dangerous place to be."

Since Harding's death in 2021, the remaining members of Girls Aloud have got together on numerous occassions to help raise money for cancer charities.

Last year, they raised hit £1m for breast cancer research. At the time, Roberts said: "We’re ending our year with so much gratitude in our hearts as we’ve managed to raise over One Million Pounds for research into breast cancer … as requested of us by our Electric Girl Sarah. We think of you and miss you everyday Sarah."

Girls Aloud have said they are unlikely to perform again without Harding.

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