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Strictly star Annabel Croft on her late husband’s heartbreaking apology to kids on his deathbed


Annabel Croft has shared her heartbreak over her husband Mel's final words, which she said still haunt her today.

Annabel’s husband of 30 years Mel Coleman died in May 2023, just weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer that had “spread everywhere”, leaving the former tennis star devastated. In a column for The Sun ‘s Fabulous magazine, Annabel shared Mel’s devastating final words, revealing that the memory of his last day still haunts her. Annabel admits they tried everything they could to prolong Mel’s life, including daily visits to an oxygen chamber and a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet that shrunk the cancerous tumours in his liver from 97% to 70%.

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