Gemma Owen discusses heartbreaking loss of beloved horse Sirius following his shock death

Gemma Owen discussed the heartbreaking loss of her beloved horse Sirius in a candid chat on Wednesday. 

The dressage rider, 19, said she ‘will never get over it’ in the YouTube video which comes just days after a beauty queen tragically died at her family’s stables. 

On Tuesday, Jessica Whalley, 25, could not be revived by paramedics after she collapsed at Manor House Stables near Malpas in Cheshire, where she worked as a transport manager. 

Speaking in the clip, Gemma update her fans about her life and how she was feeling after ‘a challenging few months.’ 

The Love Island star began: ‘The last month or two has been quite challenging – we’ve obviously lost my competition horse Sirius.’

Loss: Gemma Owen, 19, discussed the heartbreaking loss of her beloved horse Sirius in a candid chat on Wednesday which comes days after a beauty queen died at her family’s stables

She continued: ‘After that, I’m not going to lie, I really really struggled. Just sort of with getting over losing him.

‘It all happened so quickly, it was so shocking and then the sort of whole in my life and routine that it sort of left.

As you know I don’t have a few different competition horses – he was my only horse I had for the last five years, I had such a good relationship with him.

‘It had a knock on effect to everything, it took a massive knock to my confidence and sort of how I felt generally. I felt pretty low, obviously that’s expected after losing an animal. It proper hit me.

‘I’m in a better place now, I wouldn’t say I’ve got over it because I don’t think I’ll ever properly get over it. 

‘It all happened so quickly, It’s not like I had time to properly process it and I couldn’t see it coming. It was overnight.

‘I’m fine, I’m doing okay and I’m doing a lot better in myself. So that’s how I am just getting on with it, feeling a lot better and just keeping busy.

‘You feel sort of guilty, we’ve got Faye now – the new horse that I’ve got on lease until the end of the year.’

Upset: Speaking in the clip, Gemma update her fans about her life and how she was feeling after 'a challenging few months'

Upset: Speaking in the clip, Gemma update her fans about her life and how she was feeling after ‘a challenging few months’

Candid: The Love Island star explained: 'I'm fine, I'm doing okay and I'm doing a lot better in myself. So that's how I am just getting on with it, feeling a lot better and just keeping busy'

Candid: The Love Island star explained: ‘I’m fine, I’m doing okay and I’m doing a lot better in myself. So that’s how I am just getting on with it, feeling a lot better and just keeping busy’

Gemma concluded: ‘But I wanted something to do, not fill that void and him be replaced because he’d never be replaced. But I just needed the horses and that was sort of my safe space

Last month, following her horse’s death, she explained: ‘On Friday we lost my horse of a lifetime due to a sudden and severe illness. Words can’t describe how much this horse meant to me and my family.

‘He was truly one in a million everyone who met Siz will know how amazing and caring his temperament was. He was taken far too soon, he has left us all heartbroken and in complete shock.

‘You taught me so much Siz and I will never be able to thank you enough, you brought so much joy and happiness to our lives and you’ll never be replaced. I love you endlessly.

Gemma’s update comes after a beauty queen who died at Michael Owen’s stables fainted after falling from her horse, her heartbroken family claimed today.

Jessica Whalley, 25, could not be revived by paramedics after she collapsed at Manor House Stables near Malpas in Cheshire, where she worked as a transport manager. 

Speaking to MailOnline on Wednesday, a relative said she understood that Miss Whalley ‘fainted before she fell’ from a horse. She added: ‘What can I say? It’s a terrible shock.’

Miss Whalley’s friend Allison Samuel earlier claimed that the beauty queen died just days before her 26th birthday this Saturday, and also said that she died after falling from her horse.  

But sources at the stable denied this, insisting it would be ‘premature’ to say so – and calling it ‘an incident’ not an ‘accident’.  

It comes as the Health and Safety Executive today confirmed that it would not be investigating the tragedy because the shock death was not believed to be ‘work-related’.

Ms Samuel, who used to work with Miss Whalley in stables at Newmarket in Suffolk, told The Sun: ‘I just couldn’t believe it – we loved her dearly.

‘She was such a lovely girl who really enjoyed her job. She was popular – everyone liked her and she was a lovely young woman. This is so unexpected, she was so fit and healthy.

‘And beautiful too – she could have been a model. It’s such a tragedy – it would have been her 26th birthday this Saturday. We have been told that it was a very sudden and [she] fell from her horse – so it has come as a terrible shock.’

Tragic: Gemma's update comes after a beauty queen who died at Michael Owen 's stables fainted after falling from her horse, her heartbroken family claimed today

Tragic: Gemma’s update comes after a beauty queen who died at Michael Owen ‘s stables fainted after falling from her horse, her heartbroken family claimed today 

The stables refused to comment further when approached by MailOnline about the claims regarding the horse.

A Health and Safety Executive spokesman said: ‘While we have been made aware of this incident, we are currently not investigating the circumstances as we don’t believe it to be a work-related death.’

Owen and his staff were said to have been in floods of tears after Miss Whalley’s death.

A spokesman for HM Coroner’s Office for Cheshire confirmed to MailOnline this morning that the death was referred to its office yesterday but a decision on an inquest has not yet been taken, with the case still ‘in its very early stages’.

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