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Tom Parker's widow recalls 'beautiful' final moments together as couple shared final kiss

Tom Parker's heartbroken widow has told how she held her husband's hand as he slipped away.

Kelsey Parker has opened up for the first time since the singer's death, recalling it being "beautiful until the end".

The mum of his two children told how there "wasn't any pain" in his final hours and how they shared a final kiss.

The Wanted singer Tom tragically died aged just 33 in March, 18 months after he was diagnosed with brain cancer.

Speaking to the The Sun on Sunday, Kelsey, 32, said: "It was still beautiful until the very end. It was just us and there was so much love in that room.”

Tom and Kelsey with their children Bodhi and Aurelia (Instagram)

Recalling the last conversation she had with Tom, Kelsey said: "I said, ‘You know Tom, I will be OK, the kids will be OK. I will make sure that everything you want them to know, the things that you’ve taught me over the years, I promise to teach them it all’.

“He said, ‘I know you’re going to be OK’. He then took off his wedding ring and put it on my finger."

It comes after Kelsey shared a heartfelt poem on her Instagram stories last week following her husband's funeral.

The last picture Kelsey shared with Tom on social media (Instagram)

She said: "Grief may feel like the dying of the soul while the body still lives, but you are alive my friend.

“And they are not, nor do they want you to be with them just yet. They very much want you to live.”

Tom's funeral was held on April 20 at St Francis of Assisi Church in Petts Wood, south east London, The Mirror reports.

Tom's funeral was held earlier this month (The Mirror)

Fans were invited to line the streets and welcomed outside the church as the service was played out on screens.

Tom’s The Wanted bandmates Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Nathan Sykes and Jay McGuiness were the pallbearers.

His poignant funeral song was reportedly Live Forever by Oasis, which was said to be playing as he died surrounded by friends and family.

In a pre-recorded eulogy at the service which left the congregation in tears, Kelsey called Tom her “soulmate” and said he had “taught their children how to be brave”.

She added the boy band star would still be alive today “if love alone could have saved him”.

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