'IT'S HARD TO HEAR'
Simon Thomas admits his 8-year-old son’s memory of his mum is fading 14 months after her death
SIMON Thomas has revealed his son's memory of his mum is fading 14 months after her death.
The Sky Sports pundit lost his wife Gemma just three days after she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in November 2017.
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Speaking about his wife's death ahead of Mother's Day on This Morning, Simon, 46, made the heartbreaking revelation that his son Ethan, eight, is already losing his memories of her.
He said: "What's been difficult in the last week is beginning to understand that his memories of the everyday with mum are starting to fade.
"School routine was I used to take him down for breakfast then get him dressed, mum would get dressed and she'd do the school run."
"I was doing it the other morning he turned to me and he said, 'Daddy, did you always used to get me dressed in the mornings?'
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"'When Mummy was alive did she used to take me to school?'
"Nearly 16 months later his memories of the day to day life with mum are fading and that's so hard to hear."
Simon was on the show with BBC Radio 5 Live producer Steve Bland who lost his wife Rachael to cancer last September.
After learning her cancer was incurable, she wrote her three-year-old son a book titled For Freddie as a way of remembering her.
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Simon explained: "I can't have a book but I have got videos, I've got pictures and memories I can write down, which I need to do."
The former Blue Peter presenter's appearance on the show came just days after he made his first public appearance with his glamorous new girlfriend Derrina Jebb at Cheltenham Festival.
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