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“Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” star Denise Nickerson has been taken off of life support one year after suffering a stroke.

“They just took off all the equipment. None of it was helping, but making her only more uncomfortable. We’re telling her it’s okay to let go,” Nickerson’s son Josh announced on Facebook on Wednesday.

On Monday, Denise, who played Violet Beauregarde in the classic 1971 film, “got into her medicines and took as much as she could,” the GoFundMe set up by her family states.

“Josh stopped her and rushed her to the ER. At some point during this event, she aspirated, and caught pneumonia.”

On Tuesday, Denise suffered a “massive seizure” that, combined with her past stroke and pneumonia, put her in a “coma-like state.”

“We are heartbroken and reliving a grief we’ve lived every single day since she had the stroke over a year ago,” the family writes.

They set up the fundraiser to help raise money for “death expenses.”

“Although she had the fame and notoriety, there is no inheritance. No life insurance. No end of life nest egg,” the family writes. “Just our income which isn’t even enough. And Denise’s wish is to be cremated and her ashes made into a piece of glass art.”

She is 62.