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Holly Hagan Details Sister Darci’s MDMA Death, Says Heart Saved a Stranger

Holly Hagan offers a first-person account of the overdose, the hospital ordeal, the choice to donate Darci’s heart.

Overview

  • In new interviews, Hagan says 19-year-old Darci poured powdered MDMA into a drink at Manchester’s Warehouse Project and did not know how much she had taken.
  • She recounts that Darci became ill, briefly rallied, then grew paranoid, failed to recognize people, screamed and collapsed before suffering a cardiac arrest and subsequent organ failure.
  • Paramedics resuscitated Darci at the venue and again in A&E, Hagan says, with hospital teams cooling her and initiating dialysis before a scan confirmed brain death.
  • The family opted for organ donation and later received a letter confirming Darci’s heart saved a woman’s life, which Hagan describes as giving the loss some meaning.
  • Hagan expresses regret about not messaging her sister that night, calls the switch to powdered MDMA a red flag and says friends told her it was Darci’s first time taking it in that form.