Brenda Edwards has opened up on the reason why she wears the colour blue following the untimely death of her son Jamal.
The 53 year old Loose Women panellist's son died at the age of 31 suddenly in February this year and was laid to rest in March.
Now, Brenda has appeared on Good Morning Britain to speak to hosts Susanna Reid, 51, and Richard Madeley, 65, on how she's keeping his spirit alive.
"He was very specific in his will, he wrote a will," Brenda told the ITV presenters.
"He had a will in his 30s?" Richard quickly asked as Brenda shared: "Yeah, well he had businesses so he had to do a will so he did a will and he was quite precise on what he wanted, even in his homegoing service – I call it homegoing service rather than funeral.
"He wanted blue to be represented, which is… You know, I'm trying to represent the blue," she shared, referring to her electric blue dress. "He loved Chelsea as a lot of people know."
She continued: "He wanted Luton to be involved as that's where he was born and it was a really beautiful service."
"Is the blue jewellery significant?" Susanna then quizzed, to which Brenda replied: "Well the blue jewellery is significant because that was his colour, that was his thing for his homegoing.
"This is also something that Ed's [Ed Sheeran] lovely mum made for me. I've got everything for Jamal, including this SB.TV pendant that someone made for him. I feel him, I feel him…"
It comes after Brenda recently revealed beautiful details from Jamal's funeral and the sign she felt from him on the day.
Brenda spoke to her Loose Women colleague and good friend, Coleen Nolan, ahead of her live return to the ITV daytime show in April.
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The pre-recorded interview took place in the garden of Coleen’s home, and Brenda showed her strength as she talked proudly about Jamal and shared previously unknown details about the entrepreneur’s tragic death.
Brenda explained that she was with her son when he died, saying: “I was with him. His sister was with us. We were all at home.
“It was sudden and it was unexpected and he went into a cardiac arrest and he passed with me holding his hand," she said.“I get a little bit of comfort from knowing that I was with him.”
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Despite his death being unexpected, Brenda also revealed that Jamal had left specific instructions for his funeral, which she called his “homegoing”.
She told Coleen: “He was born in Luton, we went back to Luton and had his homegoing there."
In a nod to his favourite football club, Chelsea, Brenda added: “Everyone wore blue or white, the music was there, he had live entertainment. It was really, really lovely.”
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