Mark Owen – singing star and member of chart-topping boyband Take That – is understood to have been left in grief this week following the loss of one of his beloved family members.

His wife of 23 years, energy coach Emma Owen, took to Instagram on Friday to share the news that their much-loved pet kitten has passed away and later revealed that the death has caused her to suffer an "existential crisis".

"Hello everyone, we've had a pretty shocking 24 hours over here," she told fans on a video. "And I know a lot of you have been messaging me for updates on the kittens but we're a little bit heartbroken here.

"Yesterday I went to feed them at 3am and one of the little ones didn't look so good. they were quite limp and they were dying. I tried to give them CPR – little kitten CPR, there's a special way to do it.

"They started breathing again, we rushed them to urgent care at the vets – my little 11 year old in tow – but they didn't make it. The other two weren't looking too good the next day. We took them back to the rescue centre to be checked on and looked after."

Emma – a former actress that appeared on airline comedy Mile High in 2003 and voiced acting roles in video games prior to her career change – admitted: "We're heartbroken here. It has been a really shocking experience."

Emma and singer Mark met in 2004 before getting engaged two years later in 2006 after being together for two years. They have a son, Elwood Jack, born in 2006, and two daughters, Willow Rose, born in 2008, and Fox India, born in 2012.

Though Shine singer Mark hasn't yet addressed his family's loss, taking to Instagram last night – with the family having had some time together to come to terms with their loss – Emma gave her fans an update, saying that losing their kitten Louis opened up a "volcano" inside her.

"Louis' passing was in and of itself very traumatic," she explained. "However, like most things, it triggered a deeper wound inside of me and most situations like that, well, it woke up this dormant volcano that related to my children.

"There's two girls and a boy kittens, and I have two girls and a boy. The intimate act of bottle feeding through the night obviously took me back to when I was bottle feeding my babies.

"Next year, I have a 16 and an 18 year old and I'm getting very close to them flying the nest, and I think most mothers are not in their head that has teenagers that are soon to fly the nest.

"There is this volcano inside of you filled with emotion. Who am I when they're gone? You know, what does that mean for me? What's my place? And I'm going to miss them so much.

"There's grief and sadness and , you know, you want to turn back that clock, and then you start evaluating. Did I do a good enough job? Was I a good enough mom?

"So all of those things happen Kind of triggered an existential crisis in a way which sounds extremely dramatic. But it's a beautiful thing. We should be asking ourselves, who am I? What's my place in the earth? What do I see my next stage of life as?"

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