Tom Parker’s emotional wife Kelsey says The Wanted star ‘sends her signs’ every day since his death
TOM Parker’s widow Kelsey has revealed she talks to The Wanted star every day in an emotional interview on Loose Women.
Kelsey, 32, said she feels his presence close and admitted Tom, who died aged 33 from brain cancer, sends her “signs” to show he is with her.
“He has given me so many signs… car alarms go off at four in the morning, I tell him ‘not at four in the morning Tom!’,” she told the Loose Women panel today.
“I do talk to him. I think that’s a release as well. To talk to him, and I can feel him there.”
The mum-of-two added: “I know he had terminal cancer, but this came as a massive shock to us. I didn’t think this was going to be the end.
“I think I definitely am probably still in shock.”
In 2020 the devoted husband and dad’s world was torn apart when he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.
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The couple wanted to make the most of every monent with his family and his bandmates even performing on a final tour.
Tom’s condition deteriorated and he died on March 30th with his wife holding his hand.
Kelsey spoke about she has remained strong for their kids Aurelia, two, and 19-month-old Bohdi, telling viewers she gets her strength “from within.”
She added: “I feel strong, I’m just getting through each day. I have the kids. I have to wake up each day, I have to get on with it, just trying to be as strong as possible in a really difficult situation and time for us all.
“What would he want me to do? He wouldn’t want me to sit around crying.
“The kids, obviously they’re not sad, they wake up and they’re happy and want to know, ‘What are we doing?’
“I’ve been really honest, I’ve taken advice, Bodhi is only 19 months old and he has no clue.
“With Aurelia, it was really difficult and she was really confused.
“When Tom went into the hospice, she was really confused… I did say to her he wouldn’t be coming home from the hospice and on the Wednesday when he did die, I was leaving to go to the hospice and I just said to her, ‘I’ve got to go to make sure the angels take daddy.
“The angels are coming to collect him,’ which is a really horrible conversation.
“The next day I had to tell her her dad’s dead. This is the advice I got – to be honest. I said, ‘Dad’s dead and he’s not coming back.’ So she’s still trying to digest that.
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“Each day she’s like, ‘is daddy at an appointment?’ When she (is with) my mum she says, ‘so is daddy really not coming back?’
“Even today, she’s very worried about where I am. So today I’ve said ‘I’m going on TV today and we are going to talk about daddy, because everyone needs to remember daddy.'”
Speaking for the first time about Tom‘s death in an interview with The Sun last month, Kelsey said: “He wasn’t in any pain.
“It was still beautiful until the very end. It was just us and there was so much love in that room.”
She also said she fell in love “at first sight” with Tom as a teenager, long before he and The Wanted bandmates Max George, 33, Jay McGuiness, 31, Siva Kaneswaran, 33, and 29-year-old Nathan Sykes became famous with a string of hit songs.