'I wouldn’t wish my year on my worst enemy,' says Kelsey Parker

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Mum-of-two Kelsey Parker believes she's currently going through the toughest stage of the grieving process a year after losing her The Wanted singer husband Tom Parker to cancer.

Looking back on the last 12 months, Kelsey, 33, who is mum to daughter Aurelia, three, and son Bodhi, two, says she'll "take all the help I can get in battling through this".

And having just recovered from a 24-hour sickness bug, she admits the loneliness is starting to hit her hard. "It’s being ill and not having that extra support of Tom going, ‘Don’t worry, babe, I’ll sort you out!’" she says, doing a great impersonation of his Bolton accent. "Tom would have helped me.

I just feel like it’s horrible for me because I have to rely on everyone else. I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy what we’ve had to live through this last year." We ask when she feels at her lowest since Tom said goodbye on 30 March 2022 from St Christopher's Hospice in London, and Kelsey admits it’s often in the middle of the night. "If I wake up and I think of him, it takes me ages to get back to sleep," she says. "And it’s just the constant waking up and him not being there.