Jack Tweed pays emotional tribute to Jade Goody as he reveals he ‘can’t move on’

Tweed said he has never felt for anyone else the way he did for Goody
Emma Powell22 March 2019

Jack Tweed paid an emotional tribute to Jade Goody as he marked the 10th anniversary of her death.

Goody died on March 22, 2009 following a battle with cervical cancer and exactly one month after tying the knot with Tweed.

Tweed said he has struggled to move on in the decade since her death, saying he hasn’t been able to feel what he did for Goody with anyone else.

“I did try and move on but I think I rushed into it trying to find a replacement,” he said on Good Morning Britain. “It didn’t seem to work, it wasn’t the right thing to do. That same feeling I had for Jade, I can’t really feel that for anyone else. I don’t think it’s the right thing to do, it’s not fair on the other person.”

Heartbreak: Jade Goody and Jack Tweedy pictured in 2006
Gareth Cattermole/Getty

Tweed was joined by Goody’s mother Jackie who insisted her daughter would have wanted him “to be happy and have someone”.

“She would like you to have children and be with someone,” she said. “He could have been with [another] woman the day she died, she didn’t care, she would like him to be happy and have a life.”

Tweed said it was “impossible” to feel down around Goody who continued to smile “right up to the end”.

“Everytime I picture Jade, I just picture her laughing,” he said. “All she ever done was laugh. Even right up to the end. Every single day, she would laugh. Such a happy, positive person she was, you could never ever be down or depressed when you were with her... impossible.”

Tweed said he has had contact with Goody’s sons Bobby, 15, and Freddie, 14, who she shared with Jeff Brazier.

Mother's love: Jade Goody with her sons Freddie and Bobby
Claire Greenway/Getty Images

The teenagers recently organised a quiz night to raise money for Marie Curie and Great Ormond Street Hospital to mark 10 years since they lost their mother.

Brazier tweeted: “Staggeringly, it’s been 10 years since my children have had to do without the most important person in their life.

“To their absolute credit, they want to mark the occasion remembering their Mum by raising money for charity at their private quiz night amongst family and friends.”

He praised the teens for their “bravery in daring to remember joyfully,” and said that they had created “an evening that their Mum would have loved to have been at the heart of”.

Goody left full custody of the children to ex-partner Brazier, and the children currently live with the presenter and his wife Kate Dwyer.

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in