Sir Tom reveals poignant message

SIR Tom Jones has shared the tragic message his wife gave him just before she died.

- BEN HASLAM Reporter [e-mail]

The legendary singer was married to Melinda “Linda” Trenchard for 59 years before she died from cancer in 2016.

Sir Tom, who turned 85 yesterday, appeared on the BBC show Sounds of the 60s with Tony Blackburn, and said: “When my wife knew that she had terminal cancer, I was with her for the last 10 days in hospital in the room with her.

“She said, ‘Look I gotta leave, but you don’t fall with me. I'm going down, I know, there’s nothing I can do about it but don’t you do that?