Grief over baby makes me feel closer to her
BARLOW OPENS UP ON LOSS OF POPPY
GARY Barlow has told of how his grief ef over his stillborn daughter has s not left – and makes him m feel close to her.
The Take That singer, who o lost Poppy in 2012, said: d: “For anyone who has been through anything ng like this I think it’s something mething you accept you’re u’re going to be dealing with the rest of your life. . In a strange w way you don’t want it to end because it’s one of the few things you yo have to remind you of the person that’s not there.
“In some ways the pain and the gr grief brings you closer t to them.” Th The singer also tol told of how writ- ing about his loss has helped him cope. He said he and wife Dawn “talked endlessly” about whether he should open up about it in his autobiography A Better Me, published in October.
Gary said: “It felt important to me as a 47-year-old man to talk about something bad that’s happened and how it made me feel. You can pick up several magazines and know how women deal with things and learn how other people have experi- enced them and for some reason men don’t talk about those things.”
Gary – father to Daniel, 18, Emily, 16, and Daisy, nine – is urging other men to be more open about their emotions.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, which airs today, he also revealed how he struggled with bulimia as his solo career flopped and how his ego led to Take That splitting up.