Gary Speed's widow finds love again two years after losing second husband to brain cancer

Louise Speed, the widow of erstwhile Wales and Newcastle midfielder Gary Speed, has recovered emotion again with businessman Andrew Dickens aft tragically losing her 2nd hubby successful 2022

Louise Speed, the widow of Gary Speed, says she is 'blessed to person recovered emotion again' with businessman Andrew Dickens.

Louise, 53, was near devastated astatine the passing of Speed successful 2011 earlier marrying Quinton Bird successful 2021. He tragically died from encephalon crab conscionable six months later.

She has present recovered happiness again, though, with Dickens, 45, who has told The Mail that they fell successful emotion aft surviving successful the aforesaid tiny colony successful North Wales.

The millionaire spot developer said: "Funnily capable we are from the aforesaid tiny colony successful North Wales and lone lived a fewer 100 yards from each other. It was lone successful caller years that we became bully friends."

A comparative confirmed that the mates were present surviving unneurotic successful Wrexham, adding: "They are presently connected vacation unneurotic successful the South of France. They marque a beauteous couple."

Louise, who has besides gone into concern with Dickens, was stricken by grief pursuing the decease of her archetypal hubby aft the shot icon passed distant successful 2011. Louise and Gary went connected their archetypal day unneurotic astatine the property of conscionable 15 and had been unneurotic ever since.

She past recovered emotion again 10 years aboriginal with Bird and they went connected to necktie the knot astatine a Chesire castle successful November 2021. But helium sadly passed distant conscionable months aboriginal aft succumbing to an assertive encephalon tumour.

Bird had helped Louise header with her lonliness pursuing Gary's tragic death. In a brave interrogation conducted backmost successful 2021 she described the aftermath of the ex-Leeds and Newcastle star's passing arsenic "like being successful the worst nightmare possible."

"There were nary answers and nary Gary walking done the doorway again," she said. "Nothing was ever going to beryllium close again. I was trudging done life, conscionable functioning. If I could person been anybody other isolated from me, for a agelong time, I would person happily taken it.

"But we are 10 years connected now. It's a cliche but clip is simply a healer adjacent if it takes years. I person learned that beingness tin beryllium bully again, tin beryllium large again.

"I don't deliberation you determination connected from thing similar this arsenic the aforesaid person. I person go wiser. I americium astir apt much assured than I was.

"But I thin to deterioration a assemblage of armour astir maine the full time, if I americium honorable - truthful that I cannot beryllium wounded again. I don't cognize if that assemblage of armour has developed implicit clip oregon whether I deliberately enactment it connected astatine immoderate point. All I cognize is that it is determination present and it wasn't 10 years ago.

"I conscionable privation to support myself from life. I don't privation to consciousness oregon spell done thing similar that ever again. I anticipation that makes sense."