Tina Arena and her husband, Vincent Mancini, always wanted more children; a sibling or two for their beautiful boy, Gabriel.
Sadly, it never happened for them.
On tonight’s episode of Ahn’s Brush with Fame, the Melbourne-based singer spoke stoically of her heartbreaking experience of pregnancy loss and of the early menopause that stymied her effort to grow her little family.
For the first of her three miscarriages, the 49-year-old said she endured the agony by herself. It was 10 years ago, she was living in London, and Mancini was more than 1000km away sailing along the Italian coast.
“I think the thing that was tough was that Gab was there watching me go through that pain, and looked at me and was holding me, going ‘Mummy? Mummy?'” she told the ABC program.
“I’m looking [at him] going, ‘It’s OK, darling. It’s OK. It’s OK.”