22 Kids and Counting: Sue Radford becomes emotional as she shares tragic death of five-year-old
It's just heartbreakingSue Radford has shared her sadness at the tragic death of a five-year-old family member in the latest episode of 22 Kids and Counting.
The mum-of-22 opens up while talking to her mum Christine about their relatives.
Sue and her adopted mum chat about whether anyone else in the family has a big brood when the atmosphere turns sombre.
Christine explains how her brother Bernard died in a tragic accident when he was just five.
Sue is overcome with sadness as Christine recalls the terrible story about how he died.
22 Kids and Counting: Sue Radford’s family tragedy
Sue and her husband Noel are both keen to find out about their past in the latest episode of 22 Kids and Counting. They are both adopted and want to know about their adoptive families.
Sue, who has no desire to meet her biological mother, visits her mum Christine to chat about the family. While sipping a cup of coffee, the subject turns to Bernard.
Christine says about her siblings: “There was six of us all together. Our Keith and our Victor. There was Joan and our Joyce and me. And our Bernard. But, um, Bernard died.”
Recalling what happened to Sue’s uncle, she continues: “My dad shouted to Bernard, he ran across the road and a coal lorry ran him over.”
Sue puts her hand to her face. She then picks up Bernard’s death certificate.
Holding it in her hand, she says: “So he passed away on 15th September 1942. He was only five.”
Sue thinks of her own five-year-old, daughter Heidi. She says to her mum: “That’s like losing Heidi because she’s five.”
Christine hadn’t yet been born when Bernard died: “I wasn’t born then, as I was That must have been a terrible shock for anybody, mustn’t it?” she reflects.
‘It’s such tragic circumstances’
Christine describes Bernard as having blonde hair and blue eyes, ‘just like her dad’.
In a piece to the camera, Sue thinks to how her grandparents would have dealt with their little boy’s death.
Looking sad, she says: “I can’t even imagine what they went through losing a child like that.
“It’s such tragic circumstances. You go out with your little boy one day and then you don’t come home with them.
“I can’t imagine. How would you ever deal with that? It must have been so incredibly difficult. Especially when they had other children to look after.”
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the episode, Noel discovers one of his relatives also met a tragic end in what is described as “the murder of the century”.
