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Brenda ‘I HOPE I CAN HELP OTHERS SHARE THEIR GRIEF’

As one of ITV’s Loose Women panellists and a former X Factor contestant, Brenda Edwards is known to millions for her positivity and charm. But in February 2022, her world fell apart when her son Jamal, 31, tragically died at the family home following a cardiac arrest. Soon after, Brenda issued a statement on social media to say that Jamal had died due to cardiac arrhythmia caused by having taken recreational drugs.

Losing a child is every parent’s worst nightmare and Brenda says, ‘I don’t want anyone else to feel the pain I’ve felt, that I

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