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“I Won’t Crumble With You If You Fall - the opening song [to the album Surrounded By Time] and my wife - God bless her - when she knew she had lung cancer and it was incurable, and I said: ‘I don’t know what’s going to happen.’
“Because it happened pretty quick,” The Voice UK judge commented. “And she said: ‘Don’t fall with me. I’ve got to go, I’ve got to leave, but you’ve got to carry on here.’
“And she said to my son Mark and myself, she said: ‘You two have got to mentor one another no. You’ve got to carry on’.
TOM JONES has opened up about his marriage to late wife Linda, as The Voice UK judge spoke about not being put on the spot by his other half in a candid interview.
Sir Tom Jones is a coach on The Voice UK (Image: GETTY)
READ MORE Linda wanted to come back to Britain, she was always homesick, Tom explained. Then she got sick and we couldn t do it. She told me to go back the last week she was alive. She told me to get a flat in London. She would have loved to have come back but we left it too late, he added to the Sunday Mirror in 2018.
The star was married to Linda for 59 years before she died after a battle with lung cancer in 2016.
Sir Tom Jones wife Linda sadly died from lung cancer in 2016 (Image: GETTY)