Kelsey Parker opened up in her first TV interview since the devastating death of her newborn baby boy last year.09:40, 20 May 2026Updated 09:40, 20 May 2026Kelsey Parker has shared her heartbreaking experience after her baby son Phoenix was born stillborn.‌Kelsey, a podcast host, actress and entrepreneur, shared the devastating news of her newborn baby’s death last year.‌She had been expecting her son Phoenix, her third child, with partner Will Lindsay.‌Kelsey, who is the widow of The Wanter singer Tom Parker, also has two children whom she shared with the boy band star, who died after a brain tumour in 2022.In her first TV interview since Phoenix died, Kelsey has now opened up on the harrowing treatment she faced, including being treated like a suspect and it being turned into a “crime scene”.‌She also recalled only being able to hold her baby boy through a mattress, while Will never got to experience holding him at all.Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Kelsey shared her traumatic journey with Susanna Reid and Ed Balls.Baby Phoenix was stillborn at home at 39 weeks last summer, with Kelsey explaining that she’s been processing his death for a year.‌“It’s taken me a year to process what happened to us,” she began. Kelsey, after being induced for the births of her first two children, said she didn’t think she knew what natural labour was, but rang her mum, midwife and her partner Will when it happened.“Within seven minutes, Phoenix arrived in the world,” she said. “There was no way a midwife was getting to me, we had her on FaceTime, and Phoenix was born, and he was sleeping. You could just see that he was no longer with us.”‌She continued: “Straight away we called the ambulance, they took nine minutes to come and when they arrived, the only way I can describe it, it was like I was in a film and this wasn’t real, it wasn’t happening to me because they came in, took him from me, I only ever got to hold Phoenix for nine minutes, that’s the only ever time I got to hold him.“They then called the police, the police arrived, and they said it was a crime scene, but because I had no one present, a midwife, there was no handover, so the ambulance and paramedics, I don’t know… they just came in, it was awful, my children were there. I was also saying, ‘my children have been through so much, can we just calm down?’”Susanna reacted to Kelsey’s horrifying story, saying it felt as though she’d been treated like a criminal, to which Kelsey replied: “I just wanted love and kindness, and I don’t think that’s a lot to actually ask for. I can’t explain their energies [the police and paramedics], it was like, ‘this is a crime scene’.‌“Phoenix is gone at this point; they’ve taken him off in an ambulance, and I didn’t see Phoenix. They took him to A&E and they took me, and I pleaded and pleaded and said please don’t do this to me, they took me to the maternity ward where people were delivering babies, and they took me to a clinical white room, I get so emotional when I actually think about it, taking myself back to that, I get goosebumps because I’m just so upset and angry with how they treated me. And I pleaded.”Kelsey had been begging to be with her son, or for Will to be allowed to be with him, so her baby boy wouldn’t be alone.‌“It was a domino effect,” she said, revealing she had to advocate for herself. She continued: “I had a police officer outside the hospital room, I had to plead.” Kelsey begged the medical professionals to take her to the room where parents who have had stillborn babies are allowed to grieve with their babies for as long as they need to. “I didn’t get that,” she said, highlighting that she later found out protocol hadn’t been followed from the place of bereavement.Kelsey is now urging for change so nobody has to go through what she did. “It spiralled, it got worse and worse and worse,” she said.She said she wasn’t allowed to get fresh air hours after giving birth, and that baby Phoenix wasn’t pronounced dead until four hours later.‌She even had to use their own video footage of giving birth as evidence of what happened, because of suspicions that she might have been “responsible” for his death.“It’s just so shocking,” Kelsey told Susanna and Ed, recalling the moment at which she was allowed to hold her son, but only through a mattress.‌“When I asked to hold Phoenix, they said I could hold him through a mattress, I wasn’t allowed to physically hold him, they wanted me to hold him through the mattress.“Will never got to hold him, there was no time for Will and Phoenix.”She continued: “I was advocating for myself at that moment, the most vulnerable moment.‌“My saving grace was Tom. Because I’d been through this experience with Tom, I’ve spoken to brain surgeons all over the world, so actually, where Tom had put me in such a medical experience for 18 months, I wasn’t afraid. I wasn’t afraid to use my voice, if I didn’t have Tom or gone through that, I would have felt so scared and felt that I’d done something wrong. And I didn’t even get checked, no one checked me, they left me for 10 days at home.”Kelsey has since had a meeting with the ambulance service, who told her they were “really sorry” but the paramedics hadn’t seen a stillborn baby before.‌“I said, ‘sorry but that’s not my problem, how you’ve treated me, I’m never going to that time back ever, you stripped everything away from me and my family’. The police even took the blankets he was born in, the towels, everything, no one has got in contact with me or tried to give anything back to me… it was like Phoenix never existed in their eyes, like they wanted to sweep it under the carpet.”Kelsey paid tribute to her bereavement nurse and said: “This is my time, this is why I’m here, I think this has happened to me because I’m going to be a voice for women because this can’t happen to anyone else.”‌Susanna and Ed read out statements from the Met police, with a spokesperson from the police saying: “We understand that this is a deeply traumatic experience, we acknowledge that referring to the address as a crime scene was inappropriate and that the family could and should have been treated in a more sensitive way. A detective inspector has offered to meet with the family alongside a child bereavement nurse.”A hospital spokesperson also told GMB that they expressed regret but couldn’t comment on individual cases.Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and ITVX.Article continues belowFor support and information, please visit https://www.tommys.org/