“It’s like, ‘Why couldn’t I have stopped it?’ I was reading into the lyrics thinking ‘Jesus Christ, was I partly to blame? Should I have woken up before?’

“You start to think, ‘What if I had forced her to go to the doctors?’ Because she didn’t go.

“You think, ‘S***, maybe I should have said she had to.’ So that song is very touching.”

In order to deal with the grief, Sir Tom spoke to a therapist in LA, who suggested he should focus on trying to perform the one “you’re scared of” first, but it was a difficult thing for him to get over.

When speaking with the publication, revealed how he has been coping.