The children still make cards for Tom... we talk about him every single day

Inspiring Kelsey tells how she handles her grief & writing bookwas like thérapy

- ASHLEIGH RAINBIRD

THE Wanted star Tom Parker's widow Kelsey has spoken of her heartache over his tragic death adding: "It's relentless...we miss him every single day.

Singer Tom died in March last year aged 33, following an 18-month battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumour.

Last week the mother-of-two marked the second Father's Day without him with a charity football match, which has so far raised more than £30,000 to prevent cancer.

But despite the brave reality star's determination to make the day a positive event for the couple's two children, Aurelia, three, and Bodhi, two she admitted: "It was tough in the morning when we woke up. The kids had made cards at nursery for Tom which they make for their daddy, then we went and put them on his bench.

"It is just tough, and it's just relentless - it is every day. This morning she said to me, 'I miss my dad. I say, we all miss daddy too. What else do I say? It's so hard. Of course we all miss him every single day there's not a day that goes by that we don't think about Tom or talk about Tom.

"For me, celebrating Father's Day, it's for my children - it's all for my children so they can celebrate Tom and that he didn't die in vain. So we can do something good from a rubbish situation."

Despite chemotherapy and 30 radiotherapy sessions, Tom died from the incurable stage 4 cancer, with Kelsey at his side. Glioblastoma, the most lethal of all cancers for people under 40, has a typical life expectancy of three to six months.