It was a heartbreaking moment that reduced Ekin-Su Culculoglu to tears during a visit to her family’s devastated homeland.
A little girl, a victim of the earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey, clung desperately to the Love Island and Dancing on Ice star and made what she thought was a simple request.
Ekin-Su said: “She wanted me to stay and be her mum because she had lost hers. I couldn’t hold my tears in. It felt very overwhelming.