Thesun - Singer Helia Sahimi has called the late Aston Villa footballer 'the best husband I could have ever asked for'
TRAGIC fireball crash footballer Jlloyd Samuel had a secret second wife, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
Singer Helia Sahimi has called him “the best husband I could have ever asked for” among a string of posts since his death.
Wife Emma Samuel, 38, mum to his three kids, is said to be in shock after learning of their relationship.
Ex-Aston Villa ace Jlloyd, 37, was killed after his Range Rover hit a van and burst into flames in May.
His family were devastated at the loss of a “loving son, father, husband and brother”.
But Helia, who Jlloyd met when he played in Iran, has also spoken of her grief.
On Thursday she posted a video of a message where Jlloyd told her: “When you feel sad you will look at this and feel we will be together soon.”
She wrote: “I am so lonely and missing you.” She added cryptically: “There are only 2 months and 8 days left to the date of our agreement.”
Another post in June referred to him having apparently changed faith in secret so they could be together.
She wrote: “Do you remember the day you became a Muslim and a party that we had private and wish we could tell someone sooner?”
Emma wed Jlloyd in 2008, when they already had two sons, now 14 and 12. She had a girl a year later and settled near Lymm, Cheshire, when Jlloyd played for Bolton, giving up her job as an interior designer.
Jlloyd then went to play in Iran from 2011 to 2015, only returning “every 14 weeks or so”.
This month Helia posted a pic of them hugging, and wrote: “I spend all my days looking at our pictures from Africa.” She added: “You were my mine and I was yours . . . you’re the best kind of man.”
Helia also posed in one of Jlloyd’s shirts from Tehran-based Esteghlal. Her posts also suggest she has a close bond with Jlloyd’s mother Caron, 54, and his sister Leslie-Ann, 38.
She referred to Caron as “an angel” and said: “Thank you for bringing Jlloyd to the world so I could taste real love.” She ended one post with “only daughter in law”.
It is unclear whether they married or she merely referred to him as her husband.
Last night Emma declined to comment. But a source said: “To say she is stunned and devastated would be an understatement.”
A woman at the home of Jlloyd’s sister and mother also declined to comment.