Max George breaks down in tears as he talks about best friend Tom Parker’s death

Max George broke down in tears as he opened up about the death of his best friend Tom Parker, in scenes on tonight's episode of C4's Scared of the Dark.

Manchester-born singer Max, 34, got emotional as he discussed Tom's tragic death from a brain tumour in March 2022, when he was aged just 33.

Max and Tom were both singers in the popular boyband, The Wanted, which launched in 2009, alongside Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes.

In the episode of Scared of the Dark, airing tonight, Max opens up to Scarlett Moffat, Chloe Burrows, Nicola Adams, Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne, and other stars of the show as he explains to them that he hasn't drunk alcohol in two years.

As they assume it was due to the industry that Max works in, he clarifies that his relationship with alcohol changed after he heard the news about Tom's incurable cancer diagnosis.

As Max explains how he found out about Tom's diagnosis, he starts to get emotional.

Gazza asks if Tom was married with kids, Max replies: “His second (child) was due a week after he got diagnosed. He had glioblastoma, which is an incurable brain cancer but it was at Stage 4 when they found it."

He continued: "I was shooting a movie and it was the last day of filming and my phone rang and it was Kelsey [Tom's wife] and I was like, oh that’s a nice surprise. But it—obviously, it wasn’t and I— I couldn’t—couldn’t really get—I couldn’t get my head around what she’d just told me and I don’t think I accepted that.

"But do you know what was lovely is that people from outside of our group and friends, even they chipped in to help. Ed Sheeran did as well. Yeah, that saved Tom’s life probably for like a year."

In a VT, Max said: "How do you deal with it? There’s no cure for that so you just sort of learn to carry on with your life I guess.

"But deal with it, definitely not. I don’t—I don’t think I’ll ever be okay with it you know."

The video cuts back to Max speaking to the group as he tells them: "One of the last things I said to him was— I thanked him for making my life so much better than what it ever could have been, you know, like that whole journey through being in the band."

In another clip, Max breaks down in tears as he says: "He [Tom] was my best friend.

"F*ck. I just don’t—I don’t—I don’t want it to be like a—like a burden or a thing with anyone else.”

Max referenced tonight's episode on Twitter ahead of the show.

He tweeted: "Apparently some pretty difficult moments tonight on #ScaredOfTheDark.. Not the place i would ever thought about opening up… But sometimes it takes being in a different environment to let some things out. Btw… how class is Gazza?!!!"

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