The Voice: Tom Jones sings ‘With These Hands’
The 80-year-old Welsh singer was married to Melissa Trenchard, known as “Lady Linda”, for almost 60 years before she died. Sir Tom Jones, then Tom Woodward, met his future wife at school in Treforest, Pontypridd, and married her a year later. Despite having many cases, the Sex Bomb star has always claimed that Linda was his “true love”.
Sir Tom and Linda had a son, Mark, who was born a month after the wedding and while the singer was still performing in men’s clubs.
The Voice star reflected on his extramarital affairs and stated that they did not matter because his marriage “was still solid” and his son “still loves me”.
This was despite the fact that he confessed to taking up to 250 women to bed each year – including several famous musicians – in a 2012 Telegraph article.
Sir Tom said he had no regrets related to his marriage or well-publicized cases.
Tom Jones admitted that he ‘blamed himself’ and was ‘devastated by guilt’ for Linda’s death (Image: GETTY)
Tom Jones met Linda, Melinda Trenchard, while they were at school in Pontypridd, Wales (Image: GETTY)
In 2015, he told The Big Issue: “I don’t regret anything … I haven’t done anything bad in my life”.
Despite the hundreds of women the star claimed to have slept with, he claimed that Linda was the only woman for him.
In 2006, Sir Tom told the Daily Mail: “She is the most important thing in my life, an incredible woman.
“Linda is the love of my life and still is, even if she doesn’t look like she was – I don’t either, but I try my best.”
Sir Tom’s wife died of lung cancer in 2016, at the age of 75, just under a year before his 60th wedding anniversary.
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Tom Jones and Linda were married a year after they met – a month before their son Mark was born (Image: GETTY)
In a heartbreaking confession, the singer admitted that he questioned whether he could have done more to save his life.
In 2019, Sir Tom told the Daily Mirror that Linda’s favorite song haunted him because he had found new meanings in his lyrics.
The track, What Good Am I? From Bob Dylan, he wonders if a man could have done more.
Sir Tom said, “I was reading the lyrics thinking, ‘Jesus Christ, was I partially guilty?’
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Tom Jones and Linda – Melinda Trenchard – made a song together, Mark (above) (Image: GETTY)
“Should I have woken up earlier? You start thinking, ‘What if I had forced you to go to the doctor?’ Because she didn’t go. “
Despite singing Dylan’s song countless times, Sir Tom admitted that it was “the only thing I was afraid of” because Linda “loved it”.
He continued: “The song is’ What am I good at if I am like everything else? If I don’t turn around when I see how you’re dressed ‘.
“It’s like, ‘Why couldn’t I stop it?'”
Fortunately, the grieving star learned to accept that there was nothing he could have done to save Linda.
Tom Jones had hits like It’s Not Unusual, Delilah, Sex Bomb and more (Image: GETTY)
Sir Tom said: “The reality is that I really couldn’t have done anything.
“When we found out about her cancer, it was too late, so there’s not much you can do.”
He admitted that the grieving process left him questioning his past actions.
Sir Tom said: “When something like this happens, it’s so devastating [that] you don’t know how to handle everything.
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“It was something I had never dealt with before.”
He described that time “healed” the pain of Linda’s death and he started to be “more realistic” about the future.
Sir Tom said: “Things sink and you realize, ‘That’s it! This is how it will be. ‘”
The star’s son, Mark, “helped tremendously” during the grieving process, but there were some days when Sir Tom struggled out of bed.
Tom Jones fans were famous for throwing women’s underwear on him while he performed (Image: GETTY)
Sir Tom said, “I didn’t know if I could do it, there were days when I felt I couldn’t get up.”
When asked about any plans for a future romance, Sir Tom stated: “No, I don’t think so.”
In his 2015 autobiography, Over The Top And Back, he said Linda was the only woman he could imagine a future with.
Sir Tom wrote: “I never had that feeling for someone else, I don’t think you can fall in love more than once”.
Sir Tom Jones will be on The Voice, which will air at 8:30 pm tonight on ITV.