A woman who appeared on TLC's My Strange Addiction admitted she eats her dead husband's ashes at least five times a day.
Casie, 26, from Tennessee, tragically lost her husband Sean to an asthma attack in 2011, just two and a half years after meeting him.
She married her husband in 2009 and the pair were inseparable before he sadly died.
Casie began carrying her husband's ashes around with her for comfort after he passed, explaining on the show: "I take my husband everywhere, to the grocery store, shopping, to the movies, out to eat, anywhere I go he goes.
"Every time I go to the grocery store I buy the food that he likes, when I cook I buy the food that he likes, I don't eat it but I cook for him."
She added: "Some people laugh, they think I’m playing but I’m serious, he's my husband."
Casie went on to share how her comfort turned into a dangerous addiction.
"I guess with the transfer of his cremains some got into the cardboard box as well and that spilled out on my hands," she said.
"I didn't want to wipe him off, that's my husband I didn't want to wipe him away so I just licked him off my fingers.
"And here I am today almost two months later and I can’t stop, I’m eating my husband."
Casie went on to share that she has lost three stone since she began eating Sean, as she rarely eats and prefers snacking on his ashes around five to six times a day.
"First I lick my finger and I don't just dip it in I swirl around to get it caked on there good and then I just eat it," she continued.
"It tastes like rotten eggs, sand and sand paper but I've grown to love that taste, it started off as not wanting to get rid of him and it's progressed into eating him.
"I've lost 42lbs since my husband passed away basically the only thing I'm eating are his ashes."
Casie added: "When I open up the urn I get a sense of happiness, it's like an adrenaline rush for me and the more I eat the more excited I get until I realise there's not a lot left.
"Then a few minutes later I feel horrible because I did it.
"It makes me feel embarrassed, ashamed, disgusted with myself, confused, crazy - you gotta be a really sick person to eat someone's ashes."
She said Sean's ashes are running low, so she will need to stop eating him before she "loses him again".
"Knowing I already lost a pound is really hard because it’s going to run out soon and I don’t know if I’ll be able to hold it together," Casie said.
“I have to stop eating him, I’ve lost him once, this time it’ll be my fault that I lose him again.”
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