Darius Campbell Danesh's girlfriend Lauren Cheek has said the couple were planning on moving to Scotland before the singer's sudden death.
Paying an emotional tribute to the former Pop Idol star, Cheek admitted that the pain has been "too much" after her loving boyfriend was tragically "ripped away" from her. The Glasgow born musician was found dead in is US apartment last August at just 41 years-old.
After revealing his cause of death on Saturday was in part from an "undiagnosed heart condition", Lauren also revealed the couple had plans to marry. As he died so suddenly, Lauren said she still feels like he's going to turn up at any moment.
As reported by the Mirror, Lauren said: “I still can’t believe he is gone because it was so sudden and heartbreaking. I keep thinking he is going to call me or walk through the door.
"When someone you love that intensely is ripped away from you, it’s too much. D would tell everyone, ‘This is the woman I want to have my children with. I love her. I want to make her my wife’.
"We were planning on getting engaged towards the end of the year and then get married and have kids. There is this piece of land right next to his family’s cabin in Scotland that we fell in love with and visited multiple times.
"We either wanted to do it there or somewhere random, like an island," she told The Sun.
Darius's cause of death was later revealed to be "inhalation of chloroethane", but the autopsy showed his heart had also swollen to twice its normal size, Lauren added. Chloroethane, commonly known as ethyl chloride, is used in petrol additives, plastics, dyes, pharmaceuticals, topical anaesthetics, and as an industrial refrigerant.
Ethyl chloride became popular as an inhalant street drug in the 1980s. The singer also had a broken neck, as a result of a car crash from back in 2010.
Darius was using chloroethane for his pain, because he didn't want to take any painkillers. The death was ruled an accident by the medical examiner.
Just a month after Darius died, his family announced that he had been using the drug after the car crash, but it ultimately contributed to his death.
Brief inhalations of the drug can result in dizziness, euphoria, confusion, incoordination, hallucinations, impairment of short-term memory and narcosis.
The Scottish singer-songwriter and actor – who was known as Darius Danesh when he made his first bid for fame in ITV show Popstars in 2001 – also appeared on the first Pop Idol in 2002, finishing third behind Gareth Gates and eventual winner Will Young.
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