Tom Jones cheated on his wife with over 100 women – on her deathbed she asked for one last thing

Despite Tom Jones’s many report­ed affairs, he and his wife Melin­da “Lin­da” Wood­ward stayed mar­ried for 59 years. They first met as chil­dren in Wales and became a cou­ple in their teens, mar­ry­ing young and wel­com­ing their son Mark at age 17.

As Tom’s music career sky­rock­et­ed, he admit­ted to hav­ing hun­dreds of affairs, includ­ing with Miss World Mar­jorie Wal­lace and mod­el Kather­ine Berk­ery, with whom he had a sec­ond son, Jonathan. Still, Tom always called Lin­da the love of his life.

When Lin­da was diag­nosed with can­cer in 2016, she had one final wish: for Tom to keep singing. In a 2020 inter­view, Tom shared her words: “You must not fall with me. I have to go, but you don’t need to.”

Inspired by her strength, Tom returned to the stage short­ly after her pass­ing. Her final words became the inspi­ra­tion for his song “I Won’t Crum­ble When You Fall.”