Music legend Sir Tom Jones has admitted he felt partly accountable as his late spouse Linda’s well being deteriorated. The couple have been married for 59 years earlier than her loss of life from most cancers in April 2016. Within the newest sequence of In My Personal Phrases, the BBC Arts documentary sequence by which effectively know figures talk about their life and work, Welsh celebrity Tom, 85, confesses he drew on their relationship whereas recording his cowl of Bob Dylan’s What Good Am I? in 2010.

“(After I recorded) the Bob Dylan tune, What Good Am I? I used to be pondering of my spouse as a result of she bought sick with most cancers. I recorded it earlier than she bought sick, however she was in my thoughts after I was recording it, as a result of she had began to…her well being wasn’t good, and her psychological…she wasn’t in an excellent place and I felt partly accountable for it,” he confessed in the course of the candid chat.

Clearly emotional as he recalled the reminiscence he continued: “So it is like, ‘What good am I if I am like all the remainder, if I simply flip away after I see the way you’re dressed,’ as a result of she’d misplaced it.

“In order that was on my thoughts after I recorded it, after which when she handed away, I mentioned, ‘Linda, I do not assume I would have the ability to stick with it’.

“And she or he mentioned, ‘You need to stick with it. That is what you do. You are a singer, you have to stick with it. Do not let this destroy you’,” he mentioned.

Tom beforehand mentioned Linda’s psychological well being points in a 2016 interview with The Sunday Instances telling them his spouse “had melancholy since she was younger” and had “misplaced her spark”, preferring to remain at dwelling in Los Angeles moderately than going out and about with him.

Tom and Linda married again in 1957, and remained collectively regardless of his many well-publicised infidelities.

He as soon as famously claimed he bedded 250 girls in a single 12 months on the peak of his profession.

However regardless of his self-confessed adultery, Sir Tom was utterly dedicated to his childhood sweetheart, whom he met in his hometown of Pontypridd on the age of 12 earlier than they tied the knot at simply 16.

The couple have one son collectively Mark Woodward, who works as Sir Tom’s supervisor.

In My Personal Phrases, returns to BBC One and iPlayer on October 21. Tom Jones episode will broadcast on October 28.