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Lisa McLoughlin

Tom Parker’s widow Kelsey: ‘I feel his presence all the time’

Tom Parker’s widow Kelsey has claimed the late singer has been communicating to her from beyond the grave.

The Wanted star died last March, at the age of 33, following an 18-month battle with stage four glioblastoma brain cancer, a leaving behind Kelsey and their two young children.

And now, Kelsey, 33, has told how she feels Tom “stroke her face” at night while she sleeps.

She told he Daily Star: “I feel Tom’s presence all the time. This month he’s been with me a lot. I ask him for signs, and he gives me them. He strokes my face when I’m asleep.’

“And I’ll see feathers everywhere. It happened when I went to the park the other day. There were feathers on the floor. No-one else noticed them but I did.

“Feeling Tom is there helps me know that I’m doing the right thing. I’ll ask him if I’m doing the right thing for the kids, and he’ll show me a sign.

“If you ask, they will show. But you have to ask out loud.”

Ahead of Tom’s first anniversary earlier this week, Kelsey said that she still feels a lot of “guilt” following his death.

Opening up about her grief on Good Morning Britain, she shared: “You can be happy, you can be sad, you can be angry. Obviously there is guilt.

“For me there’s so much guilt and that’s what is a theme through the [upcoming TV] show. I have just got a lot of guilt.

“I know that I did everything for Tom. Even still there is just that guilt process of, I’ve lost him. I feel guilty that I’m still here.”

The 33-year-old recently said she feels a lot of ‘guilt’ following Tom’s death (ITV)

Kelsey, who married Parker in 2018, added: “I look at my kids every morning and I am guilty that he’s not experiencing what I am experiencing with them.”

The new show, which will not only centre around her grief but how she’s rebuilding her life, has been therapeutic for her.

“I was a bit worried, I was like, can I actually do this?” she said of filming. “But for me it’s the best thing that I have actually done.

“Because it has actually been therapy for me. It has massively helped me.”

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