Mike Tindall has revealed the “astronomical” number of supportive messages he received from his podcast listeners after opening up about his wife Zara’s miscarriage.
The royal appeared on This Morning on Monday alongside James Haskell, with whom he hosts sports podcast, The Good, The Bad & The Rugby, to talk about their show.
Although the podcast is predominantly rugby-based, the duo has also touched on more serious subjects such as mental health and miscarriages.
James and his wife Zara, who are proud parents to Mia, nine, Lena, five, and little Lucas, one, sadly experienced two unexpected loss of pregnancies following the birth of their eldest daughter.
While chatting to presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Mike revealed that he received an enormous number of messages from listeners of the podcast after talking about the couple’s baby loss.
“When, unfortunately, me and Zara went through a baby loss when Zara was five months pregnant and the amount of people who wrote to me and got in touch is astronomical,” said Mike. “Everyone assumes that having a baby is easy and it’s not. Unless people get around that or know about it or understand it, it’s very hard to deal with.”
Holding back tears, she added: “And very much when things like that happen, normally it’s just your family and friends, but unfortunately everyone knew about it.”
In a separate interview with The Sunday Times, she spoke about the support she received from her family during the difficult period. “It was a time when my family came to the fore and I needed them,” she said. “You need to go through a period where you don’t talk about it because it’s too raw, but, as with everything, time’s a great healer.”
