Mairead Farrell has opened up about the passing of her mother – who died of breast cancer the night before the broadcaster’s 21st birthday.
The Today FM star revealed that her mum always thought of her as being “shy” so she wished she could have seen her on the small screen.
“I would have loved my mum to see me on TV or heard me on the radio, because she thought I was really shy,” she said.
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“I just try to be thankful for what I have, but sometimes I feel robbed when I see people going away with their mums on weekends, especially now that I have the money to do that stuff, whereas I didn’t when I was 2o.”
The TV presenter admitted that she sometimes struggles to remember conversations that she had with her mum.
“It was very hard when she died and I’m so long without my mum now that sometimes I struggle with remembering conversations we had and things like that so I’m kind of clinging to memories.”
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“I feel bad pining over my mother when I have a very healthy dad who is still here and is great, so you have to draw a line sometimes and say, ‘Right, there is enough grieving done here,'” she told Weekend Magazine in the Irish Independent.
“My dad never met anyone else, as he always said, ‘There’s no one as glamorous as your mum'”.
