Emotional Kelsey Parker Opens Up About Unending Pain and Grief on Husband’s Death Anniversary

Tragic singer lost life in March 2022 at 33 years old after doctors discovered an inoperable brain tumour.

Recently Kelsey parker has been quite frank with fans about how she grieves and manages mom life she and Tom have two children, Aurelia and Bodhi.

Kelsey gave an update on how she is coping with the death of her husband on the Cbeebies HQ Parenting Helpline podcast.

Kelsey was responding to a parent that has a similar problem and said, “The pain you feel is something that won’t ever go away. That pain is never gonna go away. What you learn to do is live around your pain.”

Kelsey Parker Shares the Painful Reality of Grief as she Looks Back on Tom’s Last Moments

“I am getting emotional just speaking about it.”

Kelsey went on: “I am grieving and still, I get out of bed and I be a parent because I have no other choice.”

She recalled Tom’s last day, “I told the kids, I need to go to the hospice to check that the angels will take daddy today, so that’s when I realized he was going to die.”

“He is never coming back and we will never see him again.”

Kelsey parker Was Determined Their Children Would Know Tom Through Her

Before Tom passed, Kelsey told him: “I told him ‘I know you have put a cross in front of me and I will follow this cross for you now and I will do everything to raise your children in the way you wanted to raise your children’.”

Her uplifting talk made Kelsey share with the podcast host Holly Hagan that in order to be ready everyday all the time she had to be a mum, after all, the children were calling out for her.
It was pretty natural for them to keep saying “mummy, mummy can you come make me breakfast? and Kelsey remarked one can’t just say, “no I’m grieving. I’m devastated your dad’s died.”

Empowering Conversations, Resilience, and Love

Kelsey thinks that even though she experienced grief her children have built a great capacity for resilience.

Host of the podcast and Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan who invited Kelsey on the show, posted a video of the talk by saying: “That episode talking with the amazing @being_kelsey was just so empowering. We ended up going overtime by an hour because we simply kept on chatting.”

Right after her husband’s passing, Kelsey turned to helping other people through her grief, becoming the host of the Mums The World podcast and a motivational speaker giving guidance on dealing with grief coming from sudden loss.

Besides that, she is once again in a happy relationship with tree surgeon Will Lindsay, after they made their relationship public in a forceful way in September 2024.