Sophie Smith

And he was quite, he sounded quite angry.

And he said, what, I'm not going to have a dad.

And I said, no, you always have a dad, darling.

You always have your dad.

Your dad's always going to be your dad.

And he said, what, but not a dad I can play with.

And anyway, Owen then asked a thousand questions of, and I wasn't really prepared, you know, questions about,

Can his teacher come to his funeral?

Am I going to get married again?

Is he going to get a new dad?

There were all these other questions.

Yeah, that's a really big question because, yeah, it was... Brain cancer's horrible.

And Ash was such a beautiful man and brain cancer took him really before he died.

So it was very difficult because... the treatment as well affected his brain and...

in the last few months, he became very different because his brain wasn't working properly.

And that was really hard.

So there were... And it was hard trying to hold the family together.

You know, because I wanted to protect the boys from...

if he wasn't behaving himself in a, you know, kind of appropriately.

But also, you know,