Jocelyn Wildenstein’s longtime companion, Lloyd Klein, is sharing just a few intimate recollections of her last hours.

In an unique dialog with PEOPLE following her Tuesday, Dec. 31, demise on the age of 84, which AFP and Paris Match first reported, Klein revealed that the Swiss socialite, who was identified for her intensive and excessive plastic surgical procedures, died whereas taking a nap.

“We had a pleasant pleased hour the identical night time and we have been preparing for the brand new 12 months, and we took a bit nap simply to look good earlier than getting dressed,” he says.

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When requested by PEOPLE what was Wildenstein’s reason for demise, he says that the she had phlebitis, a situation that Healthline describes as irritation of a vein that could be brought on by injury to the vein wall or by a blood clot that blocks a vein.

“Due to her phlebitis, the legs have been very, very swollen, and the blood was blocked, and there was no oxygen within the mind,” he says. “And we have been having a nap and once I get up, I mentioned, ‘Jocelyn, now we have to get up, now we have to dress,’ and she or he was chilly and she or he was lifeless.”

“It’s extremely unhappy. It is extraordinarily unhappy,” he notes. “It is extraordinarily unhappy to put down together with your different half that I do know for 21 years and ready to have fun New Yr’s Eve and to seek out her chilly.”

Klein says that the situation, which her grandmother additionally had, didn’t impression their vacation festivities as her well being had been “excellent” simply days prior.

“We have been on the Ritz two days in the past. We have been having dinner,” explains Klein. “Earlier than that, we had come for Vogue Week at Chanel. The whole lot was good, the whole lot was good.”

Reflecting on how the 2 spent the vacation season, he says it was “lovely.”

“We have been on the Ritz. We have been having events. She was in nice form. She was in impeccable well being,” says Klein.

The 2 had been spending time in Paris, throughout which he says she was “very pleased” and “on the prime of her sport.” He famous that she had made just a few tv appearances and was “extraordinarily lovely.”

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“Two months in the past, she attended the Chanel present. Everybody invited us to dinner. Everybody welcomed her with crimson carpet. Paparazzi have been following us. It was the return to Paris. We have been on the prime of our sport. The whole lot was on the prime,” he displays.