Singer Jake Quickenden has opened up on the ‘raw’ grief he felt after the deaths of his brother and father within years of each other.
Speaking about the loss he faced on GB News on Wednesday, Jake opened up about how difficult Christmas can be for his family.
The 34-year-old said: ‘I lost my dad 13 years ago now. And then I lost my little brother ten years ago now.‘Christmas is going to be raw for anybody that’s lost somebody.‘Sometimes I think back and I think how has it been 10 years that my little brother has not been with me?‘It’s been a very hard journey to get where I am today with how I deal with my grief and how I deal with my feelings.’Jake is dad to one-year-old son Leo ‘So to have my dad taken away, it kind of made me lose a bit of myself.
‘So then when Oliver got diagnosed, and died so suddenly, I think he had it for three years, the bone cancer, that flipped everything again.
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