Nicola McLean refuses to believe the late Caroline Flack was guilty of assaulting her beau Lewis Burton during an early morning altercation in December.
Former Love Island presenter Caroline, 40, tragically took her life on February 15, three weeks before she was set to stand trial for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend Lewis.
Following her death, WAG Nicola has discussed her friend Caroline - who she spoke to the day before died.
Nicola told how Caroline - who was kept apart from tennis coach partner under the court's ruling - just wanted "to be with Lewis" and that she agreed with Caroline that the "charges were unfair".
Appearing on Talkradio, the former I'm A Celeb star shared: "Caroline just wanted to be with Lewis.
"She wanted the charges dropped, she felt it was unfair."
Nicola added: "She would say, 'I'll plead guilty so this all goes away', but she did not want to plead guilty because she did not think she was, and neither do I."
Since her death on Saturday, it emerged Caroline wasn't taken to hospital when she was given a clinical assessment by paramedics at her flat on Valentine's Day.
In less than 24 hours, the Strictly Come Dancing winner had killed herself.
Caroline was was due to attend Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London on March 4 after she pleaded not guilty to assault by beating following an alleged altercation.
Her alleged victim Lewis had begged authorities to drop the court case and pleaded she was innocent.
Following her death, the case will be terminated after a death certificate is produced to the court, according to British law.
Once formal evidence of death is given, the proceedings will be ended and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) who were bringing the charges will issue a discontinuance - which ends the litigation.
The CPS is likely to inform its witnesses that they are no longer required to attend court.
Following Caroline's death the CPS may have a review, at the Director of Public Prosecutions' request, to see if they were correct in charging her.
This may be carried out by an external body or internally.
A review may conclude that a previous decision was wrong.
Lewis may be able to get answers as to why the CPS made their decision to go to court through the CPS Victims' Right To Review scheme.
The scheme allows a victim to request a review of a decision to stop or not to bring proceedings.
If a request is made under the scheme, and the suspect dies between the original decision and the review, a review will still take place.
The purpose of the review in these circumstances is to assess whether the original decision was wrong and, if so, to provide an explanation to the victim and offer an apology if needed.
When Mirror Online reached out to Highbury Corner Magistrates Court for comment, they had no information on how the court will proceed.
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