💔 HEARTBREAK ON LIVE TV: MICHAEL BALL FIGHTS BACK TEARS AS HE OPENS UP ABOUT HIS MOTHER’S ‘DEEPLY SAD’ D.E.A.T.H ON THIS MORNING 🙏.tt

Last August, Michael informed his Instagram followers that his mum, Ruth, died aged 91.

On This Morning, Michael revealed she passed away following a short battle with illness in hospital. Ruth decided to take end-of-life care instead of extending her battle.

“It was the most beautiful, if one can plan a death, you know,” he told Alison and Dermot.

“She was taken ill on the Saturday, I went to the hospital and for five days, she had one very serious episode. It was a heart episode. They said, ‘If we have to intervene again, it’s going to be really horrible.’”

He continued: “She said, ‘No, I’d like end of life care now, please’ – utterly determined, fully compos mentis, and funny as hell and we cried a lot, we talked, I was holding her hand as she went.”

‘It’s deeply sad’

As he began to hold back his tears, Michael insisted it was a “beautiful” and “perfect” goodbye, explaining he “mourned more watching her than after, it wasn’t a tragedy, it’s deeply sad”.

On her 90th birthday, Michael asked what she wanted for her birthday. Admitting he thought she’d want “lunch at the Ritz or something”, she instead wanted to “go on the fastest zip wire in North Wales” and get a tattoo on her arm.

Michael revealed she got a “Welsh dragon” inked on her and then “got onto the fastest zip wire”.

“It was a perfect ending, it was perfect,” he said.