Sir Tom Jones has revealed that he feared he would not survive after his wife Linda's death from lung cancer in 2016. The 80-year-old singer said he was convinced he was to blame for her passing and sought help from a grief therapist.
Speaking to The Sun, the Voice judge said: 'I honestly didn't think I was going to get through it.' He added: 'I had to go and see a grief therapist because I kept thinking, 'Did I do enough? Was I on the case? Did she slip away without me really realising what was happening?' But the therapist said, 'No, she had lung cancer, there is nothing you could have done.''
Sir Tom previously expressed guilt over his wife's death, wondering if he could have saved her by sending her to a doctor sooner. In 2019, he told The Mail on Sunday that the lyrics of Bob Dylan's 'What Good Am I?' made him reflect on whether he was 'partly to blame'. He said: 'I couldn't really have done anything because by the time we found out it was too late, so there's not a lot you can do. But then you start to think, 'What if I had forced her to go to the doctors?' Because she didn't go.'
The couple met as children in Pontypridd, Wales, and married when Tom was 17. They were together for 59 years until Linda's death at age 75.
