Stephen Teap: ‘The only way I can describe grief is like a tsunami of emotion’

was just 36 when his wife Irene died two years ago at the age of 35, leaving behind two young sons Oscar and Noah.

When Irene died, Stephen didn’t know where to turn. “We don’t talk about grief. When you become a widower at 36, and you have a four- and two-year-old, because we don’t talk about it, there is nowhere to actually find other people who have been in this situation, so you end up trying to piece things back together on your own.”for a women’s coffee morning.”on my own?” he asks, highlighting the unique challenges faced by fathers who are parenting alone.

But telling Noah was a different challenge, “because he was two and so didn’t have the vocabulary to understand what was going on”.Vicky Phelan, the cancer patient whose case triggered the cervical smear test controversy, and Stephen Teap with their Jo Cox Award last November. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire“As cold as it was, using the only words that I knew he would understand, I said, ‘momma is all gone’. He wouldn’t have understood anything else.

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