Following a car crash that curtailed her career, she fatally overdosed on cocaine, which Mark Speight, her fiancé, was initially suspected of supplying, but he was not charged.
[4] In 2001, Collins was cast in a main role in the Channel 4 show Hollyoaks, but later the same day was involved in a serious car crash.
Speight was arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying class A drugs, and was bailed to return to the police station for questioning in early February.
[10] On 2 April 2008, the coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure after Collins was found with scalds covering about 60% of her body and a "'very significant' amount of cocaine in her system at the time".
[11] Speight later died by suicide; his body was found by police on the roof of MacMillan House next to London's Paddington Railway Station on 13 April 2008.