Former footballer Ashley Cain has broken down in tears as he revealed that he counted down his daughter Azaylia’s final breaths.

Ashley and his partner at the time, Safiyya Vorajee, lost their eight month old daughter in April 2021 after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia at just eight weeks old.

Since her tragic death, Ashley has been working hard to keep her memory alive, and as part of that, he decided to take part in the ITV show The Real Full Monty: Jingle Balls.

The new series kicked off on Monday, 11 December, and during a chat with Diversity’s Ashley Banjo, rugby star Ben Cohen, and The Only Way Is Essex star Pete Wicks, Ashley decided to open up about his loss.

He told the boys that he has a lot of demons and that he is “angry” about what happened to Azaylia, but he tries to “suppress” it a lot of the time.

The 33 year old explained that a few months into being a dad, his baby was was diagnosed with AMR leukaemia.

He explained that they went from thinking their life as a family had just begun to thinking it was nearing “the end.”

They were told that Azaylia had tumours in her lungs, in her kidneys, in her stomach, on her spleen and on her brain, which meant there was nothing anyone could do to save her life.

When they were given the heartbreaking news, the doctors also told Ashley and Safiyya to take their daughter home.

Ashley then explained that one day, they had a feeling that the moment they had been dreading was coming.

He told the camera: “One morning, me and Safiyya just had a sense that it would be that morning.

“We wrapped our arms around Azaylia, and we counted her last breaths.”

As Ashley detailed the tragic moments, he was overcome with emotion as he tried to hold back the tears.

He then explained that he didn’t see “any point and reason” for him to be on this earth any longer.

However, back in the room with the boys, Ashley explained: “I just thought for once in my life because of her, I want to be the best person I can be.”

As he started to break down with emotion, Ashley continued: “I want to achieve some amazing things cause I want her to know that it was because of her.”

The boys were on hand to comfort Ashley, who has since set up The Azaylia Foundation.

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