KESLET Parker has opened up on her devastating baby loss and said her young daughter Aurelia “blamed” her late dad Tom Parker.
Speaking on the latest episode of her podcast, the 35-year-old opened up about the tragic stillbirth of her son Phoenix in June this year.
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Kelsey revealed Phoenix was born a week early and was tragically not breathing.
She said: “I don’t want to go too much into detail … I know people want answers. But there isn’t an answer that I can give people.
“Obviously I’m still going through the process of losing a baby.”
Kelsey is mum to Aurelia, six, and Bodhi, four, with Tom, and had been expecting her third child with new partner Will Lindsay, who she found love with two years after Tom’s death.
She added: “I am grieving, grief looks so different to when I lost Tom.
“It feels a lot different … it’s going through this with Will. Going through this with a partner. That has helped me this time.”
Opening up about how she broke the news of Phoenix’s death to her children, Kelsey said: “We had to send an email out to the parents (of her dance school) to get the parents to talk about baby loss.”
On talking to Aurelia about it, she said: “I think with Aurelia is what the problem is, she needed an answer. And the answer I was giving wasn’t good enough.
“When Phoenix first died, I said now Phoenix is now with daddy.
“She was angry with her dad, saying, why is daddy taking everyone?
“So I was like, OK, maybe that was not the right thing to say.”
Kelsey added a dash of dark humour, telling co-host Georgia Jones: “(Aurelia) goes on about death.
“I know I’ve joked that we are the Addam’s Family … she wants to share the news.
“She processes everyone’s reaction. She’s just not a normal six year old. Her new one is she was a witch in a past life.”
Kelsey announced that her little boy had been ‘born sleeping,’ on June 21.
Tom died in 2022 after a brave battle with brain cancer.
He was diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma back in October 2020.
He was told that he likely has 12 to 18 months to live, but after six rounds of chemotherapy and 30 radiotherapy sessions, the singer revealed his tumour is “stable” back in November.
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