Dancing on Ice and Drag Race star The Vivienne lay dead in their bath for a "couple of days" before being discovered by a neighbour an inquest heard today. The drag icon, real name James Lee Williams, died at the age of 32 in January. The star's family later confirmed they died from cardiac arrest brought on by the effects of ketamine.

Now further tragic details have emerged at an inquest into the death in Cheshire Coroner's Court. Neighbour Janine Gobold revealed how she had discovered the body in the bath after friends were unable to get in touch with him and contacted her. She told the inquest she had last spoken to Williams two days before their death when they arranged a shopping trip. However on January 5 she then received a call from the star's friend asking if she had heard from them and since she had keys to the house she went to investigate leading to the grim discovery.

Gobold said they could see Williams hadn't left the house are there were no footprints in the snow. She and her son Ryan entered the property calling his name but there was no answer even though all the lights were on in the home.

"As we got to the top of the stairs, Ryan went one way and I turned right. James' bedroom is there and there is a door to the ensuite. I looked at James' bed which was all ruffled, I initially thought Panda [Williams' dog] had ragged the quilt on the bed.

"And then I walked past James' bed and into the bathroom and saw James in the bath, he just looked like he was sleeping," she recalled. She said she had screamed at her son to call an ambulance as she rushed over to stop their face going in the water.

A paramedic who was called to the home testified rigor mortis had already set in and it was evident he had been in the water for a "couple of days".

Gobold said she had seen no evidence of drug use in the house although the inquest heard Willimas had a "significant history of substance misuse, including the use of ketamine, cocaine and alcohol."

His best friend Bobby Musker, who last spoke to the drag queen on January 3 at 8.22pm in a video call, described the days leading up to the tragedy, recalling the pair had been sending memes, videos and voicenotes to each other. He added Williams had visited Liverpool a couple of times, which he believes was to pick up ketamine. "I could kind of tell when he was on [ketamine], so I could tell he had taken some," he said.

It was he who raised the alarm with Gobold after William's manager asked if anyone had heard from him. He subsequently got a call from Gobold screaming: "He's in the bath, he's in the bath".

"Him taking drugs didn't define him as a person. He did so much for the good. I don't want the public to see him just as what has happened, with drug use, that wasn't the person that defined him. There was a lot more to him," Musker, wh knew Williams around 16 years, told the hearing.