“I have to tell you something – that’s always been my fear,” Nikki Haskell told Extra TV. “It had one of those really beautiful stairs that was impossible to get down. Narrow on the inside and wider on the way out. I was always afraid it would fall. I don’t know what happened, but it’s not hard for me to believe that it happened — treacherous stairs.’ Trump, 73, who reportedly had trouble walking and was in poor health, was found at the bottom of the stairs after either falling or going into cardiac arrest, authorities said. The city medical examiner’s office ruled her death accidental. Ivana Trump’s best friend, Nikki Haskell, feared she would “fall” down the “creepy stairs” of her Upper East Side home.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Ivana often posed in her luxurious multi-million dollar mansion on East 64th Street with the staircase in the background. Gossip columnist Rob Sater told News Nation Friday night that he had visited the apartment — and also called the staircase “treacherous.” “(The apartment) wasn’t as renovated and updated as you’d think,” Shuter said. “These stairs have always been dangerous. The carpet on these stairs was also a bit worn.” The city medical examiner’s office said there was no foul play in Ivana Trump’s death.ZapatA/MEGA Ivana Trump poses past her grand staircase at her Upper East Side home on October 4, 2017. By Brian Zak Gossip’s Rob Shuter also called Ivana Trump’s staircase “dangerous” because of its worn carpet. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Haskell, who had dinner with Trump not long ago, said that in recent years Donald’s normally outgoing and social first wife had become “reclusive”. “In the last two years, she became very isolated… She had a big mansion and she was really afraid of catching the virus, much more than anyone I know. He didn’t want to go anywhere, he didn’t want to travel… He took it very, very seriously. He was afraid of getting sick.” However, Trump was reportedly set to rejoin the world, according to Haskell, and was preparing to leave New York for St. Tropez, where she had a home. “He finally decided, ‘Okay, I’m going to…’” He stayed in New York all this time. She never left at all, and she was on her own, and I’m sure it was a lot more trying than I could have imagined.” Nikki Haskell says Ivana Trump was going to travel before her death.Brian Zak Ivana Trump ‘became very isolated’ at home during the pandemic because she was afraid of catching the coronavirus, according to gossip columnist Rob Shuter .Brian Zak Haskell said she recently asked Ivana what her plans were. “He said, ‘You know, Nikki, I’ve been working since I was 3 years old… I just want to rest. I just want to enjoy my life.”
