Kelsey Parker is opening up about grieving both her infant son and her late husband, musician Tom Parker
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The television personality and podcaster welcomed two children with The Wanted's Tom Parker before his March 2022 death
While pregnant in June 2025, she revealed that she lost her child with her current partner, Will Lindsay
Kelsey Parker is sharing her experience with grief after losing both a husband and a son.
In a new episode of theMum's The Word! With Georgia Jones & Kelsey Parkerpodcast, the 34-year-old mother of two opened up on how she navigated her late husband Tom Parker's death shortly after their kids were born, compared to the pregnancy loss she experienced with her current partner last year.
While discussing a recent appearance onSky Newsto bring awareness to maternity care being "so bad" in the U.K., the actress and television personality said there was much more she planned to share at a later time.
"It was a really interesting topic, and obviously we were just talking about Phoenix, and I couldn't open up completely, and I can't open up completely on this podcast because it's an ongoing thing," she said, referring to the loss of her son.
In a June 22, 2025,Instagram post,she announced that her first child with partner Will Lindsay — whom the couple named Phoenix Parker-Lindsay — was "born sleeping."
She and her late husband, The Wanted's Tom Parker, previously welcomed two children together: Aurelia and Bodhi, who were 5 and 4, respectively, at the time of Phoenix's death.
The British singerdiedon March 30, 2022, at the age of 33, almost two years after he was firstdiagnosed with stage four glioblastoma.
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On Sunday's March 1 episode of her podcast, Kelsey said she still plans to share more of her experience, but added that for now, "the biggest part that I'm sharing is that I still have to be a mom every day."
"And it was so hard, I think with Phoenix, it was harder with Phoenix than it was with Tom," she continued. "I think 'cause they were so much younger, I could just be like, 'Oh, well, daddy wasn't coming back.' And you know, when I said about the angels taking daddy, we won't see daddy again. They accepted that, and we sort of moved on."
Kelsey noted that explaining to Aurelia and Bodhi, who were older now than they were when Tom died, that their brother, whom they watched grow inside their mother's belly, was more difficult to do.
"When Phoenix died, they knew the reality of that as well," Kelsey explained. "So, they knew, you know, my dad's died. We've never seen my dad since Phoenix has died. We're never going to see Phoenix and we're never going to get to meet Phoenix. I think that's for them. And it was why," she said.
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Kelsey also shared that she and Lindsay have kept all of Phoenix's clothes and his room in the home.
"Aurelia will go and play with Phoenix's car and put her babies in," she said, later adding, "Phoenix is very much there in the house."
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