Tom Parker’s widow Kelsey says people ‘cross the street to avoid talking to her’ after The Wanted singer’s tragic death

TOM Parker's widow Kelsey has admitted seeing people "cross the street to avoid talking to her" following her husband's death.

Kelsey has bravely opened up about her grief as she struggles with the loss of The Wanted singer.

She hopes her ITVBe six-part series, Life After Tom, will get the nation talking about death and grief.

“People will see how we lived life together, because a lot of people really don’t know about me and Tom away from the public eye," Kelsey told The Sun's Fabulous magazine.

“But also they watched our journey through the cancer. Going through that was the hardest time of our lives, so why not open up and show people how I’m dealing with grief?

“In the UK, we don’t talk about grief. We don’t talk about death. It’s a taboo subject. Even when I see people, they don’t really want to talk to me about it.

“Honestly, people cross the road so they don’t have to talk to me. It’s crazy. People don’t know what to say.

“It’s so shocking because Tom was so young. I think they try to put themselves in my position and think: ‘I don’t know how she’s actually coping.’

“I just want to talk to people and be normal and continue my life, but that’s harder for me when people don’t want to talk to me.

“So with the show, I wanted to open up and show people that you can grieve the way I’m grieving.”

Kelsey believes the documentary will help keep Tom’s memory alive – as he features heavily throughout in unseen videos and pictures of the pair.

it follows her award-nominated documentary, Inside My Head, which followed Tom after his unexplained seizures resulted in a diagnosis in October 2020 of grade-four glioblastoma.

The film was nominated for a National Television Award earlier this year.

Despite Tom's tragic death eight months ago, Kelsey tries to live by the adage: “It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

She's determined to “make the most of life” as it was revealed she has started dating again.

The mum-of-two has grown close to Sean Boggans.

The Sun revealed Kelsey met 39-year-old electrician Sean through mutual friends at a wedding in Greece in September and they attended a wedding together in Greenwich, South London last month.

Kelsey and Tom fell for each other as teenagers, long before he and his band mates – Max George, 34, Jay McGuinness, 32, Siva Kaneswaran, 34, and 29-year-old Nathan Sykes – hit the big time with a string of hits, including Glad You Came and Gold Forever.