Meet the 22-year-old who put her legal career on hold to raise her two siblings as well as her own baby - after her mother's sudden death.<br /><br />Nicole-Jade Campbell had her world tipped upside down after her mum, Tammy Campbell, suddenly died at just 42.<br /><br />But she immediately stepped up to care for her teenagers brothers Rocky and Leo Price, 16 and 14 - despite being a mum to her five-month-old daughter.<br /><br />She took them in with her partner, Daniel Ambrus, 30, a security guard, at their home in Skegness, Lincolnshire.<br /><br />She has even put a halt on pursuing a career in law to focus on providing for her family. <br /><br />Nicole, a customer assistant, said: "I can't put into words the pain we've been through. <br /><br />"Mum was kind and hilarious, and I could always rely on her. <br /><br />"Her death was so sudden and it was hard to process that I didn't get to say goodbye.<br /><br />"I would've never abandoned my brothers, but it's still a lot to take in that I now have three dependents at the age of 22."<br /><br />The mum-of-one was six weeks away from her final law exam at Lincolnshire University when her mum fell unexpectedly ill with severe sickness and diarrhoea. <br /><br />Nicole had encouraged her mum to go to Skegness Hospital A&E after she complained of heart palpitations that left her struggling to breathe. <br /><br />She said: "Mum was still laughing and talking on the phone, but when I went to her house to check on her she didn't look herself.<br /><br />"She kept shaking it off as a panic attack but she couldn't stand up nor had any colour in her face.<br /><br />"I had my daughter Ruby with me so I phoned my cousin and her partner and they took her to A&E to get checked out. <br /><br />"My brothers were also at the cinema and I didn't want them to come home to an empty house."<br /><br />After tests doctors couldn't find what was wrong with Tammy, a mum-of-three who owned her own cleaning company, and transferred her Pilgrim Hospital, Lincolnshire, to be admitted. <br /><br />But after arriving at hospital, she fell into cardiac arrest and died 30 minutes later. <br /><br />Nicole said: "My cousin called me shortly after mum was taken to the second hospital to say she's having a suspected heart attack and to get there now.<br /><br />"Before I even left the house I got the phone call to say she was dead.<br /><br />"I completely broke down and I couldn't stop screaming.<br /><br />"I called my grandad who helped me break the news to the boys when they came home from the cinema and they poured their eyes out."<br /><br />A postmortem revealed Tammy had been suffering from a stomach ulcer - which had burst and caused her heart to stop.<br /><br />After Tammy's tragic passing, Nicole says she went into "protective mode'' and immediately moved her "heart broken" brothers into her two-bedroom bungalow.<br /><br />But it wasn't until her mum's funereal on 18 April 2023 at Alford Crematorium, Alford, that Nicole "accepted" her new life.<br /><br />She said: "It was an emotional but beautiful celebration of her life, and that's when it hit me."
