![]() ![]() Jones admits his own “breakdown” after the loss of his wife was “isolated” and uncharacteristically quiet without “the fanfare of it all”, seeking help from his trusted psychologist. You know, if you look at a bloke, and unless he’s screaming with pain with a tooth, he won’t go to the dentist until it’s too late maybe. “And even if someone takes a little bit from me, goes f****** hell. “We’re not in a world where you said ‘mental health’, and you were scared of being f****** locked up. While he’s been open about his struggles, he credits “a new era” of men’s mental health awareness for helping him do so. ![]() “She wouldn’t want you to be banging your head on the front of the car, she would be saying, ‘Enjoy this, I want you to enjoy this.’ So, I try and look for the positives and everything, right? And when the negatives come in and the grief comes in and I have this saying, I keep swinging, I keep fighting it off and just let the sun shine in.” We did a lot in 27 years.”īut the Brit is determined to get out there and live because quite simply, it’s what Tanz would have wanted. “I’d done everything to give her a beautiful life and savour her as much as I could, you know? But we did a lot. I do sometimes feel that I should have saved her, but you know, I probably did for a lot longer.” When she had the heart transplant, she was saved to save me, you know. She then suffered kidney problems - common among transplant patients - and was twice diagnosed with cervical cancer, and later skin cancer, which took her life. Tanya had an emergency heart transplant at the age of 21, following the birth of her daughter. “I was always never ever going to get married or anything like that and she came along, and she just changed all that, and she was such a lovely person, there was nothing wrong about her.” Tanya fought cancer for six years, and despite being by her side every step of the way, Jones heartbreakingly admits he still wishes he could have somehow saved his partner of 27 years. The couple met when they were just 12, and next-door neighbours in Watford, before they later reconnected and began their married life together in 1994. Jones sinks back into his seat as he reminisces on the one person who did know him - his safe place, his best mate, his “Tanz”. That will never die.”Īnd it’s clear that losing his soulmate prematurely left the actor with grief that’s still undeniably raw. Kayley previously spoke out about her parent’s relationship to the Mirror, sharing, “My parents taught me the meaning of real love. The couple had a son Aaron, 32 and a daughter, Kayley, 36 who Vinnie adopted from Tanya’s past relationship. The 58-year-old lost his wife Tanya Terry to cancer in July 2019 – she was just 53 and the love of his life. So I came through LA, went to the grave, took her flowers, came down here,” the actor details. “It all worked really because it was my wife’s birthday on the 14th of April. “I think I needed it right now,” he reveals, labelling the trip to the South Island “therapeutic” following the loss of his beloved wife.
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