Westlife’s Shane Filan on heartbreak of losing both parents to cancer just months apart Editor Marvin Jackson - 28 -11- 2021 Westlife heartthrob Shane Filan has spoken out about the pain and grief of losing both of his parents to cancer within 10 months of each other . Shane, 42, was heartbroken when his mother Mae passed away in December 2019, and then his father, Peter, who passed away from pancreatic cancer just nine months later in October 2020, he says ‘a part of me broke’. ' 'Death and grief are things that you can never be prepared for. You can get bad news, but grief is so final. It’s hard to comprehend,' he explained. 'You’re used to having someone your whole life. You can never touch them again, talk to them again. He admitted that he still hasn’t ‘fully processed’ the fact both of his parents are gone, recalling a moment this summer, while he was performing, when ‘in the middle of the song I turned around and wept.’ The 42-year-...