Brookside star Tina Malone, 61, thanks her family, friends and colleagues for their support as she speaks out on husband Paul Chase’s death at the age of 42: ‘I am totally overwhelmed’

Tina Malone has thanked fans for their support following the death of her husband Paul Chase earlier this week.

The Brookside star, 61, broke her silence on X and wrote an emotional message just days after her husband passed away at the age of 42.

She wrote on

‘I will reply to everyone as soon as possible, the support and kindness here has touched me deeply too xx.’

Tina announced on Wednesday afternoon in a message on X that Paul had died.

Tina, 61, who is best known for her appearances in Brookside and Shameless, revealed she was ‘heartbroken’ over the loss of her husband.

Tina was married to Paul for nine years before they split in 2019, but they later got back together just months later in February 2020.

Tina revealed the devastating news of Paul’s passing on her X-page on Wednesday evening, as she shared her devastation with her fans.

The statement read: ‘It is with total sadness that I write this, my husband Paul Chase Malone passed away this morning, we are completely devastated.’ Tina did not reveal Paul’s cause of death.

After their 2020 reunion, the soap star said their relationship was back to normal and that their “love never faded.”

The couple share one daughter together named Flame, now 11, who they welcomed in 2013.

Tina is also mum to her daughter Danielle, 41, who she had when she was 18 during a previous relationship.

Tina’s comments section was flooded with messages of support from her fans.

The Shameless actress explained in 2020 that they got back together because the “love never went away.”

She told Closer magazine at the time: ‘The love never went away, we are working on things now, our problems were exacerbated by depression, but I have learned that in difficult times you have to work together and not separate.

‘We argued, bickered or didn’t talk at all, eventually I put Flame to bed and fell asleep next to her.

‘Paul and I had always had a great sex life, but hardly touched each other. At one point we didn’t have sex for five months.’

Previously, Tina opened up about her relationship with her husband of 13 years, revealing they ‘always had that attraction’.

Speaking last year, despite being on the brink of divorce in 2019, Tina assured that “I’m fine now.”

She explained: ‘Even in times when I’ve hated him, and we all do in relationships, in the worst of times – he’s never turned me on. We have always had that attraction.

‘Sex only gets better as you get older. I’m 60, so I’m comfortable. I like to think that I’ve accomplished most things in my life now – and that includes the bedroom!

‘Paul and I still have so much passion, after 13 years you know each other so well. He still gives me butterflies.’

Tina appeared in prison drama Clink and even took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2009.

Tina also made headlines when she lost 12 stone and dropped from a size 26 to a size six following gastric band surgery.

She has been open about her weight loss, and in 2016 she opened up about how she had been attacked online during her journey.

Tina said at the time: ‘I have had more abuse with the last one and a half stone weight loss than with my pregnancy, my nine operations or my gastric band.’

Following her weight loss, Tina spent £50,000 removing her excess skin in 2015 to maintain her new-found confidence in herself.

In December 2017, Tina was fired from a pantomime after being found in possession of cocaine.

She claimed the cocaine was stuffed in her bag when she was arrested after her pantomime performance.

The relationship hit rock bottom in 2017 after Tina said she felt suicidal after being arrested and cautioned for possession of cocaine following her performance in pantomime Sleeping Beauty.

Paul, meanwhile, lost his job caring for violent teenagers and the couple found themselves on the brink of bankruptcy.

Speaking in June 2018, Tina revealed that she felt so low after her public drug arrest – which took place in front of her daughter Flame – that she planned to commit suicide.

She told the Daily Star: ‘I felt like a burden to everyone so I wrote to everyone to apologize and planned my own funeral.

‘I needed this to work. The panto thing killed me. This has been the worst time of my entire life.”

The couple tried to work things out for 18 months, but Tina said she eventually came to the decision that she wanted a divorce.

But after Paul found a job in the army, his mental health improved and they managed to sort things out.

‘Paul has learned to recognize depression in himself and we are working on things. I now tell him, ‘Maybe I want to kill you, but I will never divorce you,’ Tina said.

Former alcoholic Tina said she has ‘always been honest’ about her past addictions – admitting she ‘smoked weed’ during her university years – but that alcohol was her ‘drug of choice’.

The mother-of-two said she would admit it if she had taken drugs, claiming her arrest was a set-up.

Tina became mother to her daughter Flame at the age of 50.

Tina, who became pregnant after IVF treatment, married personal trainer Paul, who is 19 years her junior, in 2010.

Tina caused controversy when she announced she wanted to become a mother again with Paul at the age of 54.

Speaking on Loose Women, she told the panel: ‘I’ve always wanted a boy, and… (My daughter) Flame said she wanted a brother…’

Tina, who planned to use a surrogate mother, told The Sunday People: ‘Some will say I am selfish and irresponsible for having another child at the age of 54.

‘They will moralize and insult me ​​– especially because I chose the gender of our baby – and everyone is entitled to their opinion.

“But I don’t give a fuck what they think.”