NICOLE CRUSHED BY DJ AM DEATH

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Pregnant Nicole Richie was devastated after her ex-fiance DJ AM‘s sudden death, and her  meltdown caused a huge blowup between her and current fiance Joel Madden.

The former Simple Life star took the news of his death so hard that her pals feared she was going into premature labor. The body of DJ AM – aka Adam Goldstein – was found in his pricey SoHo loft apartment on Aug. 28.

The two dated for two years before splitting up in 2006 and remained friends. But her emotional reaction after he died made Joel wonder if Nicole had been hiding deep feelings for Adam, said a source.

"It ended up in a big fight, with Joel demanding, ‘Were you still in love with him?’

"Nicole was angry that Joel would even ask that – during her time of grief – AND when she was so close to giving birth!"

Nicole, who has a 19-month-old daughter, Harlow with Joel, was more than eight months into her second pregnancy when she learned the tragic news.

"She broke down, cried uncontrollably and thought that she was having contractions," said the source. "She was devastated to think that Adam’s life came to such a terrible end after his years struggling to stay sober.

"She was crushed."

Police at the scene of  Adam’s death found a half-empty bag of crack and a glass crack pipe near his body. They also found more than a dozen bottles of prescription  medicine including the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and the painkiller Vicodin in the kitchen.  Undigested Oxycontin pills were found in his stomach and a still undissolved tab lingered in his mouth, the autopsy reported, suggesting suicide from painkillers OD. 

 A former crack addict, Adam appeared to have turned his life around and claimed to have been sober for more than a decade. His close pals now blame his deadly relapse on the pain medication he was prescribed after being injured in a plane crash with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker last September.

Despite being badly hurt, sources say Adam was able to pull a severely burned Travis from the wreckage. The remaining four people aboard the plane perished.

"It appears he was having a real tough time dealing with the physical pain and stress from the crash and got addicted to the painkillers he was on," a police source told The ENQUIRER.

Learning that Adam died of an apparent overdose made his death even more painful for Nicole. A former drug user herself, she has been clean for more than two years – thanks to the love and support of Joel. Nicole’s publicist denied that Goldstein’s death caused any problems between her and Joel.

Despite the sorrow Nicole attended Adam’s funeral yesterday along with crash survivor Travis Barker.