Dave Myers’ heartbroken wife issues sad update a year after Hairy Bikers star’s death
Dave Myers’ devastated widow has opened up on life without the Hairy Bikers star as she provided an emotional update.
The TV chef and presenter gained fame with his Hairy Bikers series alongside best mate Si King. He charmed the nation and shimmed onto the Strictly Come Dancing in 2013 as well as making appearances on This Morning and his own shows. Dave sadly died in February last year aged 66 following a cancer diagnosis.
Just over a year since his passing, Dave’s wife Liliana Myers has revealed her struggle with the loss of her soulmate. She candidly shared how she has been dealing with grief and the many different challenges. In her moving message, Liliana shared: “Three distinct experiences to report. I had my motorbike training yesterday and driving over there I was having thoughts of giving up.
“Because I’d made mistakes and wobbled before, and I did not want to waste anyone’s time on me. Mark, my instructor from Darbyshire motorcycle school, is the most caring person I met and he told me this. ‘Lil, you can’t just give up now. So many people are looking up on you as a model. You now have a voice’. Boommm… that opened my eyes.”
She added: “On my way back from practice, I turned on the radio and suddenly my vision blurred. I heard myself speaking about Dave Myers, my late husband, and his BSA motorbike that will be auctioned at the Birmingham National Motorcycle Museum on March 26. I was not expecting that at all. I’d had some interviews before but never heard myself talking on the national news. And today I had to pick pictures from my phone picture file to send off to editors of my book.
“Literally went through thousands of pics with tears in my eyes. So many moments of joy, so many memories of happy times, and so many sad moments of pain and suffering. I thought I was in a good place, stable and safe with my grief contained. And no more tears. Yet these last days showed me different. Grief is not linear.”
Last month, Liliana revealed she has penned memoir, Dave and Me, life with and without my Hairy Biker, in a bid to honour the life of the much-loved TV chef. Announcing the new book, which will be released on June 19, she said: “This past year has been incredibly challenging for me on many levels!!! But guess what? I used all my creative side and honoured Dave by writing his story. Our story. “Today is the reveal!!!”.
Liliana, who married Dave in 2011, first met the star while he was making a TV series alongside his co-star and best pal Si in her native country of Romania. She was managing a hotel where Dave was staying and the pair went on to stay in touch via email before Liliana, known as Lili, moved to Britain to be with him.
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