Kelsey Parker emotionally recalls telling daughter 'angels were coming to take daddy'
06.05.2022 - 16:15
/ ok.co.uk
Kelsey Parker spoke of the emotional moment she told her young daughter that the "angels were coming to collect" her husband, Tom Parker.The Wanted singer Tom tragically passed away on 30 March, aged 33, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour just 18 months before. And appearing on Friday's instalment of Loose Women, Kelsey stayed strong as she spoke of being honest with her children about Tom's passing.
Noting that her nineteen month old son Bodhi was too young to understand what was going on, Kelsey admitted that the process was more of a "journey" with her daughter Aurelia, two. "When Tom went into hospice, she was confused and kept asking, 'is daddy coming home?' "I did say he wouldn't be coming home," Kelsey added.
Speaking of the day he passed, she continued: "When I was leaving to go to hospice, I told her, 'I've got make sure the angels collect daddy. I need to make sure daddy goes to the angels'." Kelsey explained: "The next day, I had to tell her that dad's dead, be honest that he's not coming back." Adding that the youngster was still "trying to digest" the tragic news, Kelsey admitted she keeps asking if "daddy's at an appointment?".
"Even today, she's worried about where I am. When she's with my mum and on the toilet, she asks, 'where's my mum?'" Kelsey bravely went on to reveal she was "feeling strong" and "getting through each day" because she had her children to think about.
"I'm strong as possible in a difficult situation and time," she said. "I get my strength from within, I have to think, what would he want me to do?" This comes after Kelsey recently revealed that Tom's fellow bandmates Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Nathan Sykes and Jay McGuiness would play a huge part in Aurelia and Bodhi's lives as
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