Patti Newton reveals the heartbreaking reason why she will never date again after losing Bert

Patti Newton is candid about life without her beloved husband Bert, after he passed away from health complications in October 2021 at the age of 83.

The 78-year-old said she will never date again because the late TV star is ‘irreplaceable’.

Patti, who was married to Bert for 47 years, added that she doesn’t believe the old adage that “time heals all wounds” and thinks it “gets worse” with grief.

“If you’ve had the best, why would you want the second best,” she said during an interview on 2DAY FM’s Hughesy, Ed & Erin breakfast show Tuesday.

“He was it for me, I fell in love at a very young age and I’ve never looked at anyone else or kissed anyone else. He wasn’t my first kiss and after I fell in love with him that’s it.’

Speaking of her grief, she added, “It’s very hard and people say time will heal, but not me, I think it’s getting worse rather than better.”

‘And because I’m so loved by my family and because I always have grandchildren around me and we only live around the corner, so I see them a lot. I suppose that took some of the grief away.’

“But they say things like, I have a seven-year-old grandchild, Monty, who is divine and he’ll say, ‘quick Nan, come here, poppy’s here, look, it’s the moon.’ And he’s watching you nan.” So me, a lot of people don’t believe in those things, but we do, we see a yellow butterfly and “say poppy is here.”

Patti, who was married to Bert for 47 years, also said she doesn’t believe in the old adage that ‘time will heal all wounds’ as she thinks it will ‘get worse’ with grief

In January, she told New Idea that the couple would have “World War” battles during their nearly 50-year marriage.

“I never say our marriage was perfect and we didn’t have the blues, because we did,” Patti said.

“We’ve had world wars, but we were good together, and we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun in life and made a lot of tough decisions together.”

“I never say our marriage was perfect and we didn’t have the blues, because we did. We had world wars, but we were good together,” Patti previously told New Idea about their marriage

Patti laid her husband to rest in November 2021.

He was receiving palliative care at a clinic in Melbourne at the time of his death.

He was hospitalized in March of that year and had surgery on his leg in May. He had to have surgery after his toe was infected before Christmas.

The infection was related to his diabetes and threatened his life, with doctors telling him the surgery was a “life or death decision.”

Doctors told Bert that if he kept the leg, he would only have “months to live” instead of years if he chose to amputate.

Patti – who was married to Bert for 47 years – laid her husband to rest in November 2021. He was receiving palliative care at a clinic in Melbourne at the time of his death