Alexandra Burke has shared the moment her mum died - eight months after doctors had warned that she had 72 hours left. Melissa Bell died aged 53 in 2017, and X Factor star Alexandra told on Elizabeth Day's How To Fail podcast that it wasn't until her final show in Blackpool with The Sister Show that she received a call telling her she needed to come see her mother urgently. "When my mum fell sick it all happened so suddenly, she just spiralled," Alexandra recalled. "Everything was fine one minute and then all of a sudden she had a stroke.
It was like she was two different people." And when Melissa fell ill, Alexandra insisted she would quit the tour - before her mum scolded her for even thinking about it. "I had eight months left and I sat
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