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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, who was found dead in her London flat yesterday aged 45, 'spent much of the past year thinking about death' following a brain tumour diagnosis. In a recent, unpublished interview conducted just weeks before her death, she was asked what drives her in life. 'To make my family proud of me again,' she said. 'I've put them through a lot.' The revelation came after years on the London party scene where she battled drug addictions and made her name as the 'original It-girl'. (She is pictured left, with a male friend following her birthday in 2011, inset, with former boyfriend Duncan James, in 2012 following a party, top right, her slurred appearance on Frank Skinner's show which led to another stint in rehab, and bottom right with her family, who were close friends with the Royals.)