Brenda Edwards returned to television screens on Wednesday after the tragic loss of her son Jamal Edwards.
The music mogul and founder of SBTV died suddenly in February this year aged 31, after it was reported he suffered a "sudden heart attack".
Brenda and Jamal's loved ones laid him to rest last month, and now Brenda has opened up in a new interview about the loss of her son and the support from her Loose Women co-stars.
The 53-year-old spoke with Good Morning Britain hosts Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid on Wednesday, as she shared details of the trust she has set up in his name.
Richard touched on the loss of his father at a young age from a sudden heart attack, saying: "It took us a long time to accept the reality. Is talking about him your way of accepting it's real?"
Brenda said it "absolutely" did, adding: "I'm still having conversations talking about him in the present tense.
"It has been very comforting the support I've had from his friends, my family and the people I don't know who he had such an impression on. It gives me strength that my baby helped so many people."
She then continued: "I talk to him every morning and every night. I say 'Hello baby', 'Good morning baby', 'Goodnight baby', I talk with him about everything.
"I do get a lot of strength from that. He inspired me a lot. Anything I was doing, he was always a champion."
This comes after Loose Women fans were left emotional when Brenda Edwards returned to the panel to reunite with her friends and co-stars for the first time since son Jamal's death.
Loose Women fans took to Twitter to welcome her back, with one writing: "Lovely to see Brenda back."
While another commented: "So lovely to see Brenda back on the panel today."
A third tweeted: "Wishing Brenda all the love and strength in the world on her first episode back, such huge admiration for her."
"Welcome back Brenda It’s so hard going back to work after a bereavement," another commented.
During her sit-down interview with Coleen ahead of returning to the panel, Brenda opened up about how she would never be able to forget the vision of her son dying in her arms.
"The one thing that I do want to say is I was with him and his sister was with us, we were all at home," she recalled. "It was sudden and it was unexpected and he went into cardiac arrest. Then he passed with me holding his hand, so I get a little bit of comfort from knowing I was with him.”
"As much as that is comfort, at the same time, it’s a vision that I’m never going to forget."
Brenda said that she had felt "overwhelmed" over the sheer volume of support they had received in the wake of Jamal's death and that they were "so grateful".
Jamal left instructions for his mum in the tragic event that he would die on how to take over his charities and businesses - and even had instructions for his funeral.
Opening up about the day of his funeral, Brenda said: "When we laid him to rest, it was really beautiful. We looked up into the sky and there was a J - the clouds had formed a J. A friend took a picture of it.”
Speaking of Jamal's legacy, she said: "He said, ‘We all die, the goal is not to live forever but to create something that will.’ And I believe he has created something that will and I’m determined to make sure that it will. That’s my goal.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
