Jade Goody’s widower Jack Tweed has revealed his family saved his life after he experienced suicidal thoughts following her tragic death.
The Big Brother favourite passed away from cervical cancer aged just 27 in 2009, leaving behind sons Bobby, now 16, and Freddie, now 15.
And now as the 11th anniversary of her death approaches, her husband Jack, 32, has told how he would be dead if it wasn’t for his loved-ones stepping in.
Sad loss: Jade Goody’s widower Jack Tweed has revealed his family saved his life after he experienced suicidal thoughts following her tragic death (pictured in 2019)
Speaking to The Sun, Jack, who married Jade just a month before her death on Mother’s Day, told how his brother one day came home to find ‘bottles of tablets’ sitting in front of him.
Discussing the ordeal to the publication. he said: ‘I did have suicidal thoughts for a while, just thought what’s the point in all this?
‘I’ve lost everything and never felt so low in my life, my brother came round one day and found me sitting with bottles of tablets in front of me.’
Gone too soon: The Big Brother favourite passed away from cervical cancer aged just 27 in 2009, leaving behind sons Bobby, now 16, and Freddie, now 15 (pictured in February 2009)
The TV personality went on to explain that his mental health has suffered in the wake of the star’s death, adding that he lives with ‘acute anxiety.’
He continued: ‘My mental health has suffered a lot since Jade died. I’ve got acute anxiety which is very hard to deal with. I went on medication for a while, but I didn’t really like it. To be honest, I probably didn’t give it a chance. I’m not one for taking tablets.’
Jack went on to say how coping with ‘simple things’ was difficult amid his anxiety, adding that things feel like a ‘big deal’ to him.
Heartbroken: And now as the 11th anniversary of her death approaches, her husband Jack, 32, has told how he would be dead if it wasn’t for his loved-ones stepping in
Speaking further about the pain he’s endured since her death, Jack added that everyday he wakes with a ‘constant sick feeling’, adding that he used to drink to get rid of that feeling but has since cut down.
He added that the upcoming anniversary of her death on Sunday will be ‘hard’ to deal with, even more so as it falls on Mother’s Day.
It comes months after Jade’s former partner Jeff Brazier admitted the decade since his her death has been ‘tremendously difficult’.
So sad: ‘I’ve lost everything and never felt so low in my life, my brother came round one day and found me sitting with bottles of tablets in front of me’ (pictured in February 2008)
Tough: Speaking further about the pain he’s endured since her death, Jack added that everyday he wakes with a ‘constant sick feeling’, adding that he used to drink to get rid of that feeling but has since cut down (pictured in 2008)
The 40-year-old star also opened up about how their sons Bobby, 16, and Freddie, 15, had grown into ‘wonderful young men’ after adjusting to the trauma of their mother’s death.
Speaking to Barrow-in-Furness based paper The Mail in November, Jeff said the last 10 years had been ‘tremendously difficult – that’s the only way I can really put it. There’s been ups and downs, but we’ve come through it together.’
The star – who wasn’t in a relationship with Jade at the time of her passing – went on that to say that his sons were ‘coming of age’ and ‘have grown into wonderful young men. I’m hugely proud of them.’
Difficult: Jade Goody’s ex Jeff Brazier, 40, admitted the decade since her death has been ‘tremendously difficult’ (pictured: the pair in 2003 during Jade’s first pregnancy)
Heartbreaking: Jeff also opened up about how their sons Bobby, 16, and Freddie, 15, had grown into ‘wonderful young men’ after adjusting to the trauma of their mother’s death (pictured in 2005)
He revealed the anniversary of Jade’s death, which coincides with Mother’s Day is ‘hard’ because of the ‘cruel coincidence’.
The date ‘stirs up a lot’ for his two sons but that the family would never stop talking about Jade because she was their mother.
He added his job was to be ‘respectful’ towards the reality star’s memory by ensuring she ‘lives on’ through her children.
A Struggle: Jeff said the last 10 years had been ‘tremendously difficult – that’s the only way I can really put it’ after Jade’s death from cervical cancer in 2009 (pictured in 2003)