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Roman Kemp on moment he told mum Shirlie his best friend had died: ‘She just screamed’

In a heartfelt episode of Auto Trader's Show on the Road podcast, Roman Kemp has opened up about the profound impact of his best friend's death.

Roman shared his story in a heartfelt episode of Auto Trader’s Show on the Road, while revisiting places in the Hertfordshire Countryside that hold memories from his past. However, it was the loss of Joe Lyons, Roman’s best friend and Capital FM’s producer, to suicide that stood as the central, most moving part of the conversation. Initially believing it to be an accident, Roman’s grief morphed into a complex mix of sadness and guilt upon discovering Lyons had taken his own life.

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