Tennis icon Annabel Croft is currently a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing
Annabel Croft said Strictly Come Dancing has distracted her from grief following the death of her husband this year. The former British number one tennis player and broadcaster said she is “still crying every day” after her husband of 36 years Mel Coleman died from cancer aged 60 – just 16 weeks after diagnosis.
She told the Daily Mail : “I just went into total freefall. I was one of those wailing women in the hospital car park. Poor Mel was the one who’d been told he was going to die, and he was comforting me. Her son Charlie then asked the nurse if Mel had "months or weeks" to live. The star then reveals the nurse said: "'Huh!' Almost laughing, mocking our son. 'No — hours.' Mel heard that, all of it. It was just awful."
“And once I met Mel, I realised I didn’t want to carry on doing that. I think I took strength from who he was. He gave me confidence. He taught me how to… live.” Croft said her husband was feeling better in April a few months after his diagnosis so the couple travelled to Portugal on what she calls “the fateful holiday”.
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Strictly's Annabel Croft breaks silence on devastating death of husbandStrictly Come Dancing star Annabel Croft has spoken out about the shock passing of her husband on 36 years, Mel Coleman, who died just 16 weeks after his cancer diagnosis
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