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Tom Parker's widow Kelsey says she feels 'so much guilt' after his death

Julia Hunt
·Contributor
Updated ·2 min read

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Tom Parker's widow Kelsey has revealed she feels a lot of "guilt" after his death and that making her new TV show about grief has been "therapy".

The Wanted star and father-of-two died in March at the age of 33, after battling an inoperable brain tumour.

Opening up about her grief on Good Morning Britain, Kelsey said you can feel so many different emotions all at one time.

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"You can be happy, you can be sad, you can be angry," she said.

"Obviously there is guilt."

Tom and Kelsey Parker got married in 2018. (PA)
Kelsey Parker said she feels guilt after her husband Tom Parker's death. (PA)

When host Kate Garraway asked what she meant, Kelsey said: "For me there's massive... there is so much guilt and that's what is a theme through the show.

"I have just got a lot of guilt.

"I know that I did everything for Tom. Even still there is just that guilt process of, I've lost him.

"I feel guilty that I'm still here."

Kelsey – who married Tom in 2018 and had two children with him – went on: "I look at my kids every morning and I am guilty that he's not experiencing what I am experiencing with them."

Kelsey Parker will present a series about grief. (Getty)
Kelsey Parker will present a series about grief. (Getty)

ITVBe series, Kelsey Parker: Life After Tom, will take an unflinching look at the reality of bereavement, confronting death with compassion, empathy and humour.

It will also explore how Kelsey is rebuilding her life with her and Tom's young children.

"I was a bit worried, I was like, can I actually do this?" she said on GMB.

"But for me it's the best thing that I have actually done. Because it has actually been therapy for me."

"It has massively helped me," she added.

VANCOUVER, BC - APRIL 25: (L-R) Max George, Nathan Sykes (rear), Tom Parker, Jay McGuiness and Siva Kaneswaran of The Wanted performs at Orpheum Theatre on April 25, 2014 in Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Andrew Chin/Getty Images)
Tom Parker on stage with The Wanted. (Getty Images)

Parker was diagnosed with inoperable stage-four glioblastoma in 2020, while Kelsey was pregnant with their son Bodhi.

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The couple already had daughter Aurelia, who was born in 2019.

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