I’m a Celebrity star Nicola McLean said she is backing a call from TV legend Dame Esther Rantzen for people to sign a petition demanding legislation to allow terminally ill patients to take their own lives.

Nicola expressed her support for Esther, who was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer last year.

She told GB News: “Esther Rantzen is asking for the public to get behind patients like her and wants everyone to sign a petition for assisted dying, which is so sad.

“I was in I’m a Celebrity with Esther Rantzen. I love her. She’s such a lovely woman. She’s had an unbelievable career, she’s a fantastic mother.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she continued: “I totally back her to be able to make her own decision, rather than going in a terrible way.

“She can make a choice then and her family will know when it’s going to happen.

“I know her daughter’s saying, don’t judge me and don’t say that I want my mum to die, because my mum’s my person…I want to respect her choice.”

She added: “It feels like she should be able to – we all should be able to make a choice, shouldn’t we? I’d definitely be getting behind Esther.”

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