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Singer James Morrison found his wife dead at home
The tragic event occurred during the early hours of January 5. In the absence of a toxicology report, everything indicates that his wife Gill Catchpole took her own life.
The first days of the New Year have been marred by tragedy for James Morrison. The British singer has been emotionally forced to cancel all his professional commitments after suffering a huge blow to his personal life: On January 5, he found the body of his wife and mother of his two daughters, Gill Catchpole, upon returning to his home in Whitminster. Initial reports suggest she had taken her own life by hanging. Doctors certified the death at around 9:40 in the morning on Epiphany Eve. Now it is inevitable that the artist will have to put his life on hold.
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More details have emerged during the last few days following an inquiry. The death of Catchpole, who was only 45 years old, occurred just days after, according to the Daily Mail, authorities received a distress call from the deceased herself which sounded the alarm about the fragility of her state of mind.
There were other warning signs - in the hours leading to the death, a friend of the couple had worriedly contacted Morrison to explain that his wife was not answering the phone. Then anguish took over the singer, who raced home only to be confronted with an excruciatingly painful and distressing site.
According to the inquest report, there was no indication of a crime. Although the official verdict, as well as the appearance before the coroner’s judge in charge of the investigation, Roland Wooderson, will not be disclosed until the toxicological report is completed. For now, everything seems to point to a case of suicide. As sources from the family environment point out, both Morrison and his two daughters, Elsie and Ada-Rose, 15 and five years old, respectively, are immersed in a deep wave of sadness and grief - one which the artist seems not to have left during the last decade and a half: he lost his father in 2010 and, later, his older brother and a nephew.
His lifelong love
Morrison met Gill when he was 17 years old - 22 years ago. And, since then, their relationship was the buoyancy that allowed him to breathe during many years in which it seemed that life turned its back on him professionally and personally. On more than one occasion he referred to Catchpole as “his heroine”, the protagonist of his story that was, from that day they met, “a fairy tale.”
In fact, he dedicated his famous album Stronger Than You Know to her, which based the power of its lyrics on the strength that Gill had after the complications that she suffered when she gave birth to her youngest daughter prematurely. Just a few days ago, Morrison published a photo of himself in the studio recording on his social media accounts, captioned “New year, new adventure…” The hope he expressed for 2024 has vanished, at least for now, as he comes to terms with the another painful death of a loved one.