Holly Hagan’s sister, 19, saves stranger’s life by donating coronary heart following demise on evening out

Holly Hagan has revealed that donating her late sister’s coronary heart has resulted in a life being saved, although she referred to as it a ‘egocentric’ choice.

Earlier this 12 months, the Geordie Shore star, 33, shared the unhappy information that her youthful sister Darci had died aged 19 after being rushed to hospital in October.

In a press release to LADbible, Higher Manchester Police defined: “On Sunday 19 October 2025, we had been referred to as by hospital workers to the priority for welfare of a 19-year-old girl who had fallen significantly in poor health after it’s believed she had taken medication.

“Sadly, the lady died in hospital Monday night. Our ideas stay along with her household at this troublesome time. Enquiries are ongoing.”

Hagan told The Every day Mail that her youthful sister had gone to the Warehouse Undertaking nightclub in Manchester and blended crystal MDMA into her drink earlier than feeling unwell and vomiting, then going into cardiac arrest.

Medical workers had been capable of revive her and get her into an ambulance headed for Manchester Royal Infirmary as she went into cardiac arrest once more.

After arriving on the hospital, Holly was instructed that her sister was ‘100 per cent brain-dead’, and he or she stated that her sister ‘died at 16:23’.

Talking about it on the We Need To Talk podcast afterwards, Holly stated that Darci’s coronary heart was the one organ they might donate and that they determined to donate it to assist.

She stated: “I will be actually trustworthy. It was a egocentric choice. We wished her life to imply one thing. We wished to have the ability to say that she’d saved a life, like that was for us.

“That was to provide us peace. Lots of people like, ‘oh, you’re so selfless and courageous’. We weren’t, we wished her to have achieved this. And for us to really feel higher due to it.”

Holly stated that three weeks later the household obtained a letter saying that the guts donation ‘saved the lifetime of a girl’ which she stated was ‘simply such an honour to have been capable of be part of that’.

She stated that ‘as terrible because the scenario was’ she was pleased with her sister with the ability to obtain loads in her 19 years and that the lady who acquired Darci’s coronary heart may need had ‘the happiest day of her life’.

“It was the worst day of ours. However one thing good got here of it, and somebody’s youngsters did not should lose their dad or mum due to Darci,” Holly stated of her sister’s donation.

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