"She doesn’t quite understand that he’s not coming back,” the late singer's wife, Kelsey Parker, said in a new interview. "So I have to be really blunt."
The singer called Sheeran a "special man," and said his kind gesture "meant the world" to him and his wife, Kelsey Parker.
The boy band's surviving four members, Max George, Jay McGuiness, Siva Kaneswaran and Nathan Sykes, were photographed carrying the late singer's casket.
"It is with the heaviest of hearts that we confirm Tom passed away peacefully earlier today with all of his family by his side," the singer's wife, Kelsey, announced.
Parker's positive outlook certainly paid off, as he had vowed to "fight this all the way" when he first shared his diagnosis with the world in October 2020.
Parker revealed in October he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.
"Bodhi means enlightenment so it just goes perfectly with our situation right now," his wife said.
Kelsey Hardwick gave birth last week.
Tom Parker of U.K. boy band The Wanted has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.
There’s no easy way to say this but I’ve sadly been diagnosed with a Brain Tumour and I’m already undergoing treatment," Parker posted to Instagram.