Tom Parker, the singer of the band The Wanted, passed away last March when he was only 33 years old after fighting with all his strength against a brain tumor that was diagnosed in October 2020, a few months before she welcomed the youngest of her two children, little Bodhi.
His widow Kelsey Parker wants her offspring to have some palpable memory of the musician because at first the two thought that he could beat the disease despite the very poor prognosis that the doctors gave him, so he did not leave any farewell message for them to read when they were older.
“If I had started to tell him to write letters to the children, he would have said: ‘What do you mean? Don’t you think I’m going to survive this?’ He would not have been good for his mental attitude. She didn’t need to do it because I’ll tell you what I thought”, she justified herself.
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The idea that has occurred to her is to use her husband’s ashes to create jewelry that she will give to her mother-in-law Noreen and her children so that they can always carry Tom close to their hearts, although in the case of Aurelia and Bodhi will wait a while before giving them to them because they are only 4 years old and 20 months old respectively.
“It will be something really special that they will be able to have and will deliver at a certain time, but I still don’t know when”, he clarified in statements to the magazine OK! Magazine.
Tom passed away just a week after appearing on stage with his bandmates on a reunion tour and no one expected him to get worse as fast as he did. However, Kelsey believes it was typical of her husband not to make her suffer more than necessary.
“I’m just saying that he lived his life to the fullest, and even his death was quick. So for the first two weeks after his death, I was in shock,” she explained.