Widow of Tom Parker, from Wanted, says relationship ‘was beautiful until the end’

A month after the death of Tom Parker, 33, of the group The Wanted, the widow of singer Kelsey Hardwick, 32, said that even the last moments with her husband in the hospital were romantic. She revealed that she held Parker’s hand as he died on March 30 after an 18-month battle with brain cancer.

He died surrounded by his family and his bandmates while listening to the song from “Oasis Live Forever”. “It was still beautiful until the end. It was just us and there was a lot of love in that room,” said Kelsey, who spent the entire time with her husband, who spent the last few days at St Christopher’s Hospice in south London.

The widow, who fell in love with Parker in her teens before he rose to fame with The Wanted, said her best days with the singer were those shortly before his death. Kelsey, a mother of two, insisted Parker felt no pain as she died and revealed that she told daughter Aurelia, 2, that she would make sure the angels were watching over her father.

Before Tom’s death, Kelsey said she slept with him. “We were in bed together for two hours, I just wanted this time with him. I didn’t want anyone to come in. We needed this time together to talk.”

Kelsey insisted that even the days in the hospital with Parker were “romantic”, adding that he “absolutely adored the ground I walked on”. She said he was “still trying to figure a way out” of his illness a week after arriving at the hospital. hospital.

“I said, ‘You know Tom, I’m going to be fine, the kids are going to be fine. I’m going to make sure that everything you want them to know, the things you’ve taught me over the years, I promise to teach you. them all,'” he said.

She says her husband replied, “‘I know you’re going to be fine’. He then took off his wedding ring and put it on my finger,” reveals Kelsey

Kelsey further said that she thought Parker knew the end of his life was approaching, but he still had ‘struggle’ inside him.