Loose Women star Brenda Edwards has made a sad admission about grief, as she reflected on her son Jamal's death. This week marks four years since the 56-year-old lost her child to cardiac arrhythmia, after he took recreational drugs.

Jamal, 31 at the time, was a pioneering music entrepreneur who founded SB.TV, a platform that helped launch the careers of some of the UK's biggest artists, including Ed Sheeran.

Tragically, Jamal's death was not Brenda's first experience of profound loss. The former X Factor star was just four years old when her parents were killed in a car crash over the Christmas period.

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In the aftermath of the devastating accident, she was raised by her grandmother and extended family.

"Everybody just came together," she told Best Magazine. "So I was very fortunate. It’s quite funny saying ‘fortunate’ in my circumstances, but I consider myself fortunate because I am still here today to be able to do what I’m doing."

Reflecting on the death of her son, Brenda added: "He is forever 31. And it’s been an overwhelming three years. It’s not been long, really. Three years sounds like a long time, but it’s really not."

She continued: "After losing both of my parents, I know that it is a lifetime of pain that I am going to be experiencing. But I want to turn that pain into passion and turn that passion into helping others, because there’s always somebody that is worse off than you.

"There’s never a good time to lose a parent or a child. Obviously, our children are not supposed to go before us, so I think that’s what makes it incredibly difficult for me," she added.

Brenda went on to say that she still feels Jamal's presence around, which helps her to "get up and smile".

"Jamal's motto was all about self-belief. He gave me self-belief, both of my children. I have a daughter, she's 32 now," she added.

"And every day I'm proud f them and every day they give me self-belief and they give me the courage to keep going."

Alongside keeping busy with her work commitments, on the likes of Loose Women and in the West End, she continues to honour his legacy with The Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust, an objective to support those causes that mattered most to him.

Meanwhile, the singer recently opened up about her newfound happiness with a mystery partner.

Taking to Instagram in November, she shared a snap of the them holding hands with their fingers entwined only.

As part of a lengthy caption, she wrote: "A year ago, you walked into my life with laughter in your beautiful eyes and so much unconditional love in your heart and every day since has been that much brighter.

"Your humour makes the ordinary magical, your love makes the difficult easy, and your steady spirit makes me feel safe enough to dream bigger than I already do, even silence feels like music, and every moment feels like we have known each other for years! You just get it! X (sic)."