EX-FOOTBALLER Vinnie Jones has been consumed by grief since losing his beloved wife Tanya to cancer last year. The couple, who first met as children, married in 1994.
After a heart transplant aged 21 and twice beating cervical cancer, Tanya was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2013. It spread to her lungs and brain and she died at home in LA.
Here, in an exclusive extract from his new book Lost Without You, Vinnie, 55, reveals in heartbreaking detail the pain he is going through.
I WAS holding her when she was taking her last breaths. I felt the pain leave her. It had been six years of pain, but now it was flying away, Tinker Bells of pain flying from her body.
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