The Voice: Tom Jones sings ‘With These Hands’
The Welsh singer (80) 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 tied the knot with her a year later. Despite having many affairs, the Sex Bomb star always claimed that Linda was his one “true love”.
Sir Tom and Linda had one son, Mark, who was born a month after their marriage, and while the singer was still performing at working men’s clubs.
The Voice star reflected on extramarital affairs and claimed it did not matter because his marriage is ‘still’ and his son ‘still loves me’.
This came despite the fact that in a 2012 article in the Telegraph they admitted that they served up to 250 women a year – including several well-known musicians.
Sir Tom claims he had no regrets about his marriage or well-publicized affairs.
Tom Jones admitted he ‘blamed himself’ and ‘was guilty’ about Linda’s death (Image: GETTY)
Tom Jones met Linda, Melinda Trenchard, while at school in Pontypridd, Wales (Image: GETTY)
In 2015, he told The Big Issue: “I have no regrets … I have not done anything bad yet.”
Despite the hundreds of women with whom the star claimed to have slept, he maintained that Linda was the only woman for him.
In 2006, Sir Tom told the Daily Mail: ‘She’s the most important thing in my life, an amazing woman.
“Linda is the love of my life and still is, even though she does not look like her – I do not look like me 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 their 60th wedding anniversary.
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Tom Jones and Linda get married one year after they meet – one month before their son Mark is born (Image: GETTY)
In a heartbreaking confession, the singer admits he questioned whether he could have done more to save her life.
In 2019, Sir Tom told the Daily Mirror that Linda’s favorite song haunted him because he found new meanings in the lyrics.
The track, Bob Dylan’s What Are I Good For ?, questions whether a man could do more.
Sir Tom said: ‘I read the text and thought,’ Jesus Christ, was I guilty? ‘
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Tom Jones and Linda – Melinda Trenchard – had one song together, Mark (above) (Image: GETTY)
‘Should I have woken up before? You start thinking, ‘What if I forced her to go to the doctors?’ Because she did not go. ‘
Despite performing Dylan’s song countless times, Sir Tom admitted that it ‘was the one thing I was afraid of’ because Linda ‘liked it’.
He continues: ‘The song is’ How good am I if I am the rest? If I do not just turn away when I see how you are dressed ‘.
It’s like, ‘Why could I not stop it? ‘”
Fortunately, the grieving star learned to accept that he could do nothing to save Linda.
Tom Jones has had hits including It’s Not Unusual, Delilah, Sex Bomb and more (Image: GETTY)
Sir Tom said: ‘The reality is that I could not really do anything.
“By the time we found out about her cancer, it was too late, so you can not do much.”
He admitted that the mourning process had made him doubt his actions from the past.
Sir Tom said: ‘If something like this happens, it’s so devastating [that] you do not know how to handle everything.
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“It was something I’ve never had to deal with.”
He described that time had ‘cured’ the pain of Linda’s death and that he had begun to be ‘more realistic’ about the future.
Sir Tom said: ‘Things sink in and you realize:’ This is it! This is how it’s going to be. ‘”
The star’s son, Mark, “helped a lot” during the mourning process, but Sir Tom struggled to leave his bed for several days.
Tom Jones fans were known for throwing women’s underwear at him while he was performing (Image: GETTY)
Sir Tom said: ‘I did not know if I would be able to do it, there were days when I felt I could not get up.’
Asked about any plans for a future romance, Sir Tom said: “No, I do not think so.”
In his autobiography, Over The Top And Back in 2015, he said that Linda was the only woman with whom he could predict a future.
Sir Tom wrote: “I have never had that feeling for anyone else, I do not think you can fall in love more than once.”
Sir Tom Jones appears on The Voice, which airs tonight at 20:30 on ITV.