Ashley Cain opens up about split from Safiyaa & claims ex congratulated him on new baby 2 years on from daughter’s death
THE Real Full Monty’s Ashley Cain has opened up about the split with his ex and claims she congratulate him on his new baby two years after the death of their daughter.
Cain, who also appeared on reality shows Ex On The Beach and The Challenge, and Safiyya Vorajee struggled with grief after losing Azaylia to cancer in April 2021.
Yet now Ashley has said he is having a baby boy next month with a friend he has known since he was 18.
Ex-footballer Ashley, 33, one of the stars of ITV’s The Real Full Monty: Jingle Balls this week, did an interview saying Safiyya had congratulated him.
He also told The Sun on Sunday of his joy at being a dad again.
Ashley told The Sun on Sunday last night: “Safiyya and I have shared an intense emotional journey together since losing Azaylia.
“When there are intense emotions involved, be that from loss, breakups or my recent baby announcement, recollection of events may vary.
“What has never varied is our mutual commitment to our daughter’s foundation, which has never been stronger.”
Azaylia was just eight weeks old when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia and tumours on her lungs, stomach and kidneys.
Ashley and Safiyya created The Azaylia Foundation which raised more than £1.5million to fund her specialist treatment.
She was given several rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital but died at eight months.
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, Safiyya said: “How can I congratulate him when I’m in so much pain?
“Knowing my child has a sibling that isn’t related to me has shattered my dreams of a future with a full sibling, of that family.
“I feel embarrassed. I am speaking out because I need to stop sugar-coating stuff that’s painful to me. I am devastated.
“Because he hasn’t named this woman I’ve had thousands and thousands of messages with people thinking it is me, congratulating me.”
Safiyya admitted she will struggle to ever see Ashley’s new child.
She said: “As raw as that sounds, I find it difficult watching my own nephews, my own goddaughter play, as Azaylia should be playing with them.”
The couple had discussed having a child together before they separated.
Safiyya, 36, says: “I don’t know why he would ask to have another baby with me knowing he’s sleeping with someone else.
“When he asked me, it was the moment I’d been waiting for.
“I sighed with relief that we could reunite and have a family again. It was at Azaylia’s garden, in front of our daughter, such a precious, safe space for us.
“He said, ‘I don’t want another baby with another woman’, and asked if we could have one together.
“I couldn’t speak, the tears were rolling down my face.
“Over the coming weeks I then waited for him to say, ‘Shall we get back together’. I truly thought he would, I thought he was just taking things step by step.
“But then, out of the blue, he told me he was having a child with someone else.
“It was like a hurricane had hit me. I am shocked.”