The representative added that Julie is "crumbling inside" and she attempts to keep a "brave face" - but the prognosis that she has been given "is simply unimaginable to her".

Hysterical, he described an increasingly split personality: the one crumbling inside and the other that he had to maintain for adoring transatlantic fans.

She was crumbling inside.

Lucasi felt himself crumbling inside.

Something was crumbling inside.

That very instant the camera broke; something crumbled inside.

The whole building is starting to crumble inside.

I crumbled inside.

She wavered helplessly about there on the sidewalk awhile, crumbling inside.

"Feels like my skull is crumbling inside."