Virgin Media presenter Martin King has opened up about losing both of his parents in the space of a month.
The well loved face of the Six O’Clock show sadly lost both his mother and father earlier this year, and has opened up for the first time about how he has been coping.
“It’s been tough, very tough,” Martin told The Irish Sun.
“My mother died four weeks and a day after my dad passed away. In the weeks after they’d both gone, I felt like it wasn’t me going through all this.”
Martin’s mother Mary had been suffering with Dementia, when his father suddenly passed.
“Then the reality of it would sink in, it was me. That both my mum and dad were gone. That this had actually happened.”
“My dad was fine up to that. We were expecting my mother to die. Then my dad died suddenly.
“We were told by doctors not to tell my mother that my dad had died so we didn’t.
We didn’t say anything to her about it. The strange thing is that my mother worked it out.
“You see even when people are suffering from dementia, they can suddenly have moments of clarity and that’s what happened. My mother woke up one day and put two and two together.
“She told us, ‘Your dad hasn’t come in to see me in the hospital and he hasn’t been in a very long time.’ She worked out that he had died. Then it was just two days later that she died herself.”