BBC Wimbledon presenter Annabel Croft has opened up about her ongoing struggle with grief and a distressing medical encounter during the final days of her late husband, Mel Coleman.
Coleman, a former round-the-world yachtsman and banker, died from sepsis in May 2023, just 16 weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
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The tumor perforated during a flight to Portugal.
Croft, who returned to BBC punditry for Wimbledon 2026, revealed she still experiences traumatic flashbacks about a nurse's behavior at the hospital.
The former tennis champion expressed deep distress over how one healthcare professional treated her family, including her children Amber, Charlie, and Lily, as they gathered to say goodbye.
"I've asked myself, since, if she was a psychopath," Croft told MailOnline.
The presenter explained that the nurse appeared to take pleasure in delivering terminal news directly to her husband despite requests for a private conversation first.
"It felt like it because she seemed to take pleasure in telling Mel he was dying," Croft said.
Croft recalled attempting to shield her husband from blunt medical updates, but her efforts were rejected.
"When she started to talk like that, I said: 'Can you please come over here and talk to me privately first.
I don't want him to hear this.' But she said: 'No, he is the patient.
He has to hear that he is dying,'" Croft recounted.
The situation escalated when Croft's son asked about the remaining time for his father's life.
