Kelsey Parker has emotionally revealed sick trolls cruelly told her the stillbirth of her son Phoenix was ‘karma’ amid her new romance.
Her late husband, The Wanted’s Tom Parker, heartbreakingly died three years ago of brain cancer aged just 33.
They have two children together – Aurelia, four, and Bohdi who is three.
In September last year, Kelsey went official with her new partner Will Lindsay, with the pair announcing they were expecting their first child earlier this year.
Devastatingly, Kelsey revealed in June that her baby son Phoenix was ‘born sleeping’.
In a new interview, the grieving mother has told how sick trolls branded her heartbreaking loss as ‘karma’.
Kelsey Parker has emotionally revealed sick trolls cruelly told her the stillbirth of her son Phoenix was ‘karma’ amid her new romance
Her late husband, The Wanted ‘s Tom Parker, heartbreakingly died three years ago of brain cancer aged just 33 (pictured in 2021)
Speaking to The Sun, she said: ‘There were comments like ‘karma’… I mean, that just shocks me,’ she says, still visibly shaken.
‘Someone else said I deserved for my baby to die. How can anyone think someone deserves to lose their baby? That’s what they were insinuating – that I deserved this pain, this loss.
‘Someone also compared Phoenix to a cat they had lost, as if to them losing a cat didn’t mean anything and was insignificant – it’s just so disrespectful.’
Reflecting on one abhorrent message, Kelsey continued: ‘One person wrote, “He wasn’t much of a Phoenix – he didn’t rise from the ashes.”
‘It was sickening. For me, it was just absolutely heartbreaking to see that and about a baby that didn’t even make it into the world. I felt I couldn’t protect him.’
She added that the abuse she was receiving didn’t just affect her, but impacted on her children, her mother and partner.
Kelsey said she is still open to having more children and believes Tom is ‘looking after Phoenix for us’.
Last month, Kelsey appeared on ITV’s Lorraine and spoke to host Christine Lampard about her grief.
Reflecting on one abhorrent message, Kelsey said: ‘One person wrote, “He wasn’t much of a Phoenix – he didn’t rise from the ashes”‘
In September last year, Kelsey went official with her new partner Will Lindsay, with the pair announcing they were expecting their first child earlier this year
She explained: ‘You’ve had to learn to live with various coping mechanisms since Tom passed away, suddenly you’re having to tap into those again.
‘I know the children have been, and always will be this driving force for you… you still have to make them breakfast, take them to school. You still have to create a normal life for them…’
She gushed: ‘My kids are my everything, they have got me through the darkest of times, I can’t believe I’m back here three and a half years later dealing with such a loss and a devastation but me and Will have the kids and they have to have normality, they have to go to school.
‘I did do the school run and for me, I think you have to rip the plaster off at some point, and if I’d left it until after the summer holidays and I came back and saw the parents, people don’t know what to say, we are so awful about talking about grief, loss and death and us as a family, we’re not.
‘So, I did get up and do the school run, I faced everyone.’
Kelsey also said her children are aware of what happened to their little brother.
Devastatingly, Kelsey revealed in June that her baby son Phoenix was ‘born sleeping’
She said: ‘It’s being honest, it’s telling them facts because I never wanted them to feel like I’ve not been honest…
‘I don’t like the thought of them being in separate rooms to adults and adults having separate conversations because kids listen.’
Kelsey added: ‘They’ve gone through this before, they’ve lost their dad, they know their dad is with the angels now so we’ve said Phoenix has gone with your daddy.’
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