Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas has hinted at a ‘dark situation’ with a person he claims is ‘equating their grief’ with his in a new video blog about the loss of his wife.
The widower said things had reached ‘breaking point’ with an unnamed person after the death of his wife Gemma, who died aged just 40 from Leukemia in November.
Simon, 45, is now a single father to eight-year-old Ethan and has been sharing regular updates on his life on social media.
Today he posted a new video blog, detailing his trouble with sleeping and how a ‘really, really unpleasant episode’ with someone had pushed him ‘to a dark place’.
Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas recently revealed he is too heartbroken to return to work following the death of his wife, Gemma (pictured)
Speaking to his phone at 4.40am in the morning, he revealed that he had been prescribed sleeping pills in a bid to beat his sleep deprivation.
‘I’m up at this time again, he said. ‘I had a good night sleep the night before. My doctor put me on some new sleeping pills and the first night I got six hours sleep.
‘But I woke up feeling like I had a hangover without being sick. It put me off so I didn’t have them last night and you can’t take them every night.
‘I’ve had one hour sleep and woke up at 3.30am. I know I’m into my 11th week of sleep deprivation.
‘Some of the sleep gurus who have kindly been in touch with lots of suggestions and might suggest some ways around that, but you know there isn’t.
‘I’ve discovered this one of the grim parts of grief. And I don’t fight it, it is what it is. It’s part of it. And I have to get through it. I get up if I can’t sleep any longer.’
Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas has hinted at a ‘dark situation’ with a person he claims is ‘equating their grief’ with his in a new video blog and the loss of his wife
He then said his son would not be up for another three hours, leaving him unsure whether or not to ‘write, sit here and think or feel sorry for myself’.
In the video, he revealed that he ‘hated’ Fridays and found them the hardest day of the week as it was when he wife died.
He then spoke of a ‘situation’ with another person which escalated yesterday.
‘I can’t really go into it,’ he said. ‘But there’s a situation with a person that’s became really, really unpleasant and they’ve somehow tried to equate their grief with mine.
‘Over the last two weeks it’s been brewing and it reached its breaking point yesterday and pushed me to a really dark place.’
Gemma had flu-like symptoms and went to see the doctor three times over the course of six days in November, before she was finally admitted to hospital when her condition continued to deteriorate.
The mother-of-one was suffering from a highly aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia and tragically died four days after her final trip to the GP.
Before his 45th birthday on Friday, Simon said his first birthday without his wife Gemma, pictured, will be the ‘unhappiest of days’ in a heart-wrenching note
Simon writes daily notes for Ethan. One read: ‘My boy- you’re better! Whoopee! Do more today and this week of what makes you awesome! Love you so much, daddy xxx’
Simon announced the devastating news of his wife’s death on Twitter, writing: ‘Today I am crushed with indescribable pain. Just three days after falling ill with acute myeloid leukaemia, my dear wife Gemma passed away yesterday evening surrounded by her family and friends.’
He has since found some solace in raising awareness about the disease, writing in a now viral tweet: ‘Three times my wife Gemma went to the doctor in six days and three times she was sent home and told to rest.
‘Four days after her final visit to her GP she was dead. We have to help and train our GP’s and to detect blood cancer earlier. @bloodwise is doing this. #hiddencancer’.
Simon is now backing a campaign to educate GPs about the disease, encouraging them to take blood tests from suspected sufferers of the disease which affects 2,600 people in Britain a year.
A Just Giving page Simon has set up in wife Gemma Thomas’ name for Maggie’s Centres, a charity which offers support to people affected by cancer, has already raised £13,920 in the last month.