Achi news desk-
Gary Barlow is still “angry” about the death of his daughter Poppy.
The Take That singer, 53, was devastated when his fourth child was stillborn at full term on August 4, 2012, days before his band were due to perform at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics – and Gary has now admitted he fears trauma would end his marriage to wife Dawn, 54.
He said on ‘The Imperfects’ podcast: “I haven’t really found peace with it yet.
“I’m not talking about this in great detail and literally I’m not because I’m still kind of discovering a little bit.
“My wife’s emotions were completely different to mine. I’ve been angry about that for a long time – I haven’t really found peace with it yet.”
He added about his fears that Poppy’s death would lead to the collapse of his marriage: “We had a worrying statistic when it happened to us, something like 95 per cent of couples split up when something like this happens to them.
“I think it depends on men to deal with it differently than the women. My wife is doing much better than me – she is a much stronger person than me.
“She’s been amazing throughout.”
Gary and Dawn have a son Daniel, 22, as well as daughters Emily, 19, and Daisy, 13, and the singer said of his children’s reaction to the tragedy: “The youngest one was not affected at all by it, but two older ones still talk a lot about it.
“It’s an incredibly complicated thing that none of us should ever have to go through.”
He added about how he managed to draw strength from Poppy’s death: “It probably made me stronger, I think. I think things have to be that way, don’t they?
“There was definitely a point where I wondered if we would ever get back to where we were before but I think we got there.”
Gary wrote his song ‘Let Me Go’ as a tribute to Poppy, and said he used it to help process his grief cathartically: “For me, talking about them is usually not my way around most things in life – I write music. I have a lot of music that keeps me alive every night.
“When I see audiences singing along, that’s life for me – that’s where it came from and it’s here in front of me and it happens a few times a week on stage and that’s the way I keep her close to me.”
