Nicola Roberts has opened up on the heartbreaking loss of Sarah Harding, almost two years on from her death.

The Girls Aloud star died in September 2021 from breast cancer and two years on from the star’s death, her bandmate Nicola has opened up on the grief she feels.

Fighting back tears on Good Morning Britain, Nicola shared how she feels that Sarah’s death is “not really that real” to her, as she imagines she’s still out there enjoying life.

Speaking to Kate Garraway and Ben Shepherd on the GMB sofa, Nicola was asked how she was coping with Sarah’s death.

Ben said to Nicola: "I can't believe it's two years this month since we lost her and grief's a funny thing, isn't it?

"It hits you in waves and I bet there are moments where she pops up into your mind and you want to phone her up because something's happened and you just want to have a laugh with her. How have you dealt with it?"

Looking emotional, Nicola then replied: "I think that everybody deals with grief in different ways. Some people face it head on.

"I think, for me, it's just still not really that real. I think a lot of the time I'm like, she's in Thailand on a beach or she's in Ibiza with her friends or she's somewhere. Then I'm reminded that she's not. "

Nicola was on the show to speak about a new project founded in Sarah's memory, which will research which women in their 30s may be more at risk of getting breast cancer.

The new project is named Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in Young Women (BCAN-RAY) and is being funded by the Sarah Harding Cancer Appeal in association with Cancer Research UK.

The project, which is the first of its kind in the world, will involve 750 women, aged 30 to 39, who will undergo tests including a saliva sample to check for gene mutations.

Prior to her death, Sarah shared how she avoided seeing her doctor because of coronavirus and revealed how she thought she had a cyst before her diagnosis.

In her memoir, the star wrote: “At first I thought it was just a cyst. The trouble was the pain was getting worse.

"It got so bad that I couldn’t sleep in a bed. Eventually my skin started to bruise. By now I was terrified.

“One day I woke up realising I’d been in denial. Yes there was a pandemic but it was almost as if I’d been using that as an excuse not to face up to the fact that something was very wrong.”

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