Yahoo News The Apprentice star Jessica Cunningham reveals how she told her daughters their father had committed suicide
Former The Apprentice star Jessica Cunningham has revealed exactly how she told her daughters that their father had taken his own life.
Jessica shares three children, aged six, four and three, with her former partner Alistair Eccles who was found dead at his home in August,
Appearing on Loose Women earlier today, Jessica fought back tears as she opened up about the day she received the call telling her Alistair was dead.
‘He was supposed to pick the girls up in the morning to have them for the full week because it was school holidays. I got the phone call from his sister saying that he had taken his own life,’ she recalled.
‘It’s funny, when you hear news like that your world just stops. My initial thoughts were, the three girls were still asleep, and I thought, “How am I going to tell them?” It’s just something you never think you’ll have to deal with.’
Jessica admitted that she initially told her daughters that their father wouldn’t be picking them up because he had hit his head, but decided to tell them the truth as they went for a walk.
‘I said he had a poorly mind and sometimes if you don’t go to the doctors with a poorly mind, you can die,’ she said.
‘I was in shock, it was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do [but] I was conscious not to lie to my children because that would ruin our relationship.’
Jessica added: ‘I’ve never heard them cry the way they cried, it was heartbreaking.’
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The former Celebrity Big Brother star also revealed that she decided to bring the girls to their dad’s funeral, saying that one of the girls pressed her ear up against the coffin as she thought her dad would speak to her.
However, Jessica admitted that she did not take them to the cremation, instead tying notes written to Alistair to balloons and setting them free.
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