Former Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding passed away at 39 after battling breast cancer

British singer Sarah Harding , who was a member of the band Girls Aloud , died this Sunday at the age of 39 after struggling for more than a year with breast cancer, announced her mother, Marie.

“I share with deep sadness the news that my beautiful daughter Sarah has unfortunately died. Many of you will know of Sarah’s battle with cancer and that she fought so hard from diagnosis to her last day. She has peacefully turned off this morning,” he wrote his mother on Instagram .

In her message, Marie thanks everyone for their support over the past year and says her daughter would not want to be remembered for her fight against cancer, but for being “a shining and shining star.”

Sarah Harding’s last message

Last March, Sarah Harding herself revealed in an excerpt from her memoir (“Hear Me Out”) published by The Times newspaper that she would not live until Christmas this year, due to the metastases that her cancer had produced. suffering from chest

“I don’t want an exact prognosis. I don’t know why anyone would want it. Comfort and not having pain as much as possible is what is important to me now,” Harding acknowledged at the time, who said trying to “live and enjoy every second “of your life,” no matter how long it will be.

The singer admitted that publicly disclosing her diagnosis last summer was “scary” while calling it “the right thing to do.”

In her last message in life, through social networks, Sarah Harding was “overwhelmed and happy” by the success of her last song, of the same title as her memoir, after reaching number 1 on the list of songs downloaded from iTunes.

His time at Girls Aloud

Sarah Harding rose to fame in 2002 when the Girls Aloud group topped the charts with her work “Sound of the Underground.”

After the dissolution of the band in 2013, the singer focused on her acting career and, musically, in 2015 she made her solo debut with the single “Threads.”