A POPULAR chef tragically died in a shocking accident during her bucket list hike in Hawaii.

Gianna Buzzetta, 26, was struck by a boulder while fulfilling her lifelong dream of visiting Kauai.

The celebrity chef was enjoying the Makaleha Falls hike with her boyfriend, Connor Quinton, when she met her tragic end due to a freak accident.

“She had told her boyfriend, Connor, that day, he had fulfilled her dreams and it was the best day of her life,” Caty Buzzetta, Gianna’s mother, said in an interview with local ABC affiliate KGTV.

“They heard a really loud noise. He looked up, but couldn’t figure out where the noise was coming from,” Gianna’s father, Sal, added.

“Within a second, it happened … The rock dislodged from quite a ways up … then it landed on her.”

Caty said her daughter’s boyfriend rushed to save her from the water.

Since there was no phone service, he had to sprint to find help.

The chef needed to be airlifted to a local hospital, where she was later declared deceased.

Luckily, her parents were able to fly to Hawaii to say goodbye to their daughter after the heartbreaking incident on March 23.

“Something and missing inside you, a part of us,” said Sal.

Caty described Gianna, an executive pastry chef at the Michelin-starred Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad, California, as “beyond determined.”