Nicola Roberts on Sarah Harding: “She was fully who she was all the time”
nme.comNicola Roberts has reflected on her Girls Aloud bandmate, the late Sarah Harding, recalling how “vivacious and full of life” she was.Speaking to Jordan Stephens on the first episode of season two of The Red Carpet Treatment podcast, Roberts was asked if the loss of Harding brought the rest of her bandmates closer together.“I think that what we went through as a five was massive in itself.
That bonds you in ways where, even with your own siblings, you don’t really get that 24/7,” she replied. “To go through something where you lost part of you is on a completely different scale.
Life is so fragile. It’s fragile for anybody, it doesn’t matter who you are or what you do.”Roberts recalled Harding’s authenticity and how she never tried to be anyone but herself. “Even going back to that BRITs moment, like, how vivacious and full of life and she was so, talking about authenticity, Sarah very much was authentic in who she was.
Didn’t try to be anyone else, never tried to turn herself down, and wasn’t even aware of the fact that she should maybe do that in certain settings,” she shared.She continued: “She was fully who she was all the time.
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