Michael Mosley’s widow has revealed the moment she realised something terribly wrong had happened to her husband, who died on the Greek island of Symi a year ago.
The popular UK doctor and TV presenter had just arrived on holiday on June 5 2024 with his wife and friends, when he went missing following his decision to walk alone back to their villa from a nearby beach.
Dr Clare Bailey told the Daily Mail newspaper this weekend that it was only when she got back to the villa later in the day she realised her husband was missing. Once the alarm was raised, she remained hopeful he would be found on a neighbouring path, particularly after locals turned out in their dozens to help authorities with the search.
However, with the arrival of night-time came her despair at her husband being found safe. Bailey told the Daily Mail:
“Then it got dark. It became devastatingly obvious something had gone terribly wrong.”
Poignantly, Mosley didn’t have his mobile phone with him because, Bailey explained, “he didn’t want to risk it getting wet on the boat.”
Four days after he went missing, Mosley’s body was found only 100 yards away from a waterside restaurant. It was apparent he had lost his bearings, then stumbled and fallen in the heat.
Huge tributes were paid to the popular writer and presenter, who made TV programmes and podcasts exploring nutrition and wrote bestselling books about the benefits of fasting and ways it was possible to reverse Type Two Diabetes.
Dr Clare Bailey had been married to Mosley since 1997, and often appeared alongside him on his popular TV programmes exploring nutrition and wellbeing. Additionally, she frequently co-authored on his bestselling books.
She said this weekend, almost one year after losing her husband:
“Michael loved exploring. That was the joy of him,’ she says. ‘His death was in keeping with his life.
“He was a maverick, a bit of a risk-taker. He pushed boundaries. I loved him for that; it made him so special. He was unorthodox and just so brilliant.
“Others went to look at the place where he died. I just didn’t want to know too much about it. All I really wanted to know was that he was not suffering or in pain.
“He was in a very beautiful place and he so very nearly made it. Actually, I take comfort from that.”
