’TOWIE’ Star Yazmin Oukhellou Struggles with PTSD in Marrakech After Fatal Car Crash

"Just after taking this photo, I had a crisis," Yazmin Oukhellou confides to the Daily Mail newspaper. She is referring to the photo she had taken in a hotel in Marrakech where she was enjoying the Moroccan sun in a black bikini, phone in hand. She says she is trying to "live in the present" after the accident she and her boyfriend Jake McLean recently fell victim to.

The accident occurred on July 3 in Turkey. Yazmin Oukhellou survived, but her boyfriend Jake McLean died on the spot. "I could just feel my arm absolutely covered in blood. It was like I was lying in a hot bath, there was so much stuff around me. At the same time, I was trying to wake up Jake. In my head, I thought, ’OK, he’s just unconscious, I’m alive, so he must be alive,’" she had recounted to The Sun.

The couple reportedly had an argument in a nightclub shortly before the car accident. In a statement to the Turkish authorities, Jake’s mother, Anita Walsh, confided that Yazmin could have played a role in her son’s death. She was thus prohibited from attending the businessman’s funeral last month. But the Towie star prefers to remember their good memories. "I am so grateful for our memories and the special moment that Jake and I shared. I have not stopped thinking about him and he will always be missed. He will forever hold a special place in my heart," she said.