Stacey Solomon left Loose Women audiences in shock when she broke down in tears on today’s show.
The singer and jungle queen was visibly moved when fellow panellist Anne Diamond revealed that her biggest regret in life was not moving to Bristol, believing that if she had her son – who died 25 years ago due to cot death – “would still be alive”.
Anne tragically lost her son Sebastian 25 years ago due to cot death.
In a discussion about being haunted by ‘what if?’ moments, the former Breakfast presenter revealed that if she had been living in Bristol she would have been advised to put her baby to sleep on his back, as the city was part of a control group testing out this new theory.
She told the girls: “I just think ‘why didn’t I live in Bristol?’ I trained in Bristol, I was at the BBC in Bristol.
“If I stayed living in Bristol, my little boy would still be alive.”
As Anne told her story, Stacey was moved to tears, but Anne insisted that she didn’t get upset!
Anne recently spoke about her tragic loss recently in an interview with the Mirror.
“Now, 25 years on, my little boy would be a strapping lad like his brothers and I know exactly how he’d look,” she said.
“The musings of a bereaved mum, maybe. But the pain of loss is nearer the surface than I sometimes think.”
Anne continued: “Once a mum who had lost her child many years before to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome told me, ‘After time the pain goes, but the love never does.’
“I’m not sure the pain ever does go, actually. Nor the sense of injustice. Because, as I later learned, Sebastian didn’t have to die. We could have saved him – the trouble was, we weren’t living in either New Zealand or Bristol.”