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Natalie said she accepted she probably would not have known if Beth was experimenting with recreational drug use in her youth. However, she said she believed any casual use of ketamine became something more serious after 2019 when Beth suffered a "horrendous" stillbirth, losing her baby son at 38 weeks due to pre-eclampsia - a dangerous blood pressure complication. Over the next couple of years, she also lost her grandfather and an uncle, which hit her hard. From that point, Natalie noticed her daughter seemed to be suffering increasingly frequent health problems and pain relating to her kidneys and bladder. At the time, she believed the issue was related to the after-effects of pre-eclampsia. By the summer of 2024, Beth was losing weight dramatically, at one stage dropping a stone within six weeks. Natalie said the only logical explanation she could think of was an eating disorder, but the truth became clear on 9 September that year when Beth was admitted to hospital. "When I walked into the hospital room, it didn't even look like her anymore," she said. "She had lost so much weight and I broke down. It was shocking."
