Kate Spade’s best friend has opened up about the beloved fashion designer seven years after her shocking suicide.

In her upcoming memoir , “We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship With Kate Spade,” Elyce Arons claims that Kate and her husband, Andy Spade, were “trying to work things out” when she took her own life in her Manhattan apartment in 2018.

“They were trying to work things out – and they were always in each other’s lives every day,” Arons, 62, wrote in a preview of the new book obtained by People on Tuesday. “They loved each other.” 7

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Kate and Andy married in 1994. They welcomed their daughter, Frances Beatrix Spade, now 20, in 2005.

However, in a statement released shortly after his wife’s death on June 5, 2018, at the age of 55, Andy revealed that

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