Trinny Woodall has paid tribute to her ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff after his death eight years ago.
Johnny, who had been addicted to painkillers for 20 years, fell to his death from a parking garage roof in 2014.
The What Not to Wear star, 58, shared a touching photo of her ex and their daughter Lyla, 19, to mark the anniversary of his death.
Sadness: Trinny Woodall has paid tribute to her ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff after his death eight years ago
Tribute: The What Not to Wear star, 58, shared a touching photo of her ex and their daughter Lyla, 19, to mark the anniversary of his death
She also wrote: “Forever in our hearts. 
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“There are many stages of grief and I think now, after all the pain, anger and why, I just feel the tragic loss of a kind, funny, loyal man who I remember now at his best.
“I would highly recommend two more books by @juliasamuelmbe to anyone going through a loss – work through grief and this too shall pass. She was the biggest support for us in a very challenging time.”
Tragic: Trinny’s What Not to Wear co-star Susannah Constantine said: “Our loved one is too bad. Still part of our family. ‘
Trinny’s What Not to Wear co-star Susannah Constantine said: “Our loved one is too bad. Still part of our family. ‘
It comes after Trinny sat down with journalist Jessica Rowe for an episode of The Big Talk Show and discussed Johnny’s death.
Trinny described how she spent Lyla’s third to sixth birthdays with Mr. Elichaoff would co-parent, leave on Sunday to work on her famous fashion show and return on Friday to spend the weekend with her daughter.
Anniversary: Johnny, who had been addicted to painkillers for 20 years, fell to his death from the roof of a parking garage in 2014
Parenting: Trinny described how she spent Lyla’s third to her sixth birthday with Mr. Elichaoff would grow older, leave on Sunday to work on her famous fashion show and return on Friday to spend the weekend with her daughter
It was the only way the businesswoman could see that the family could financially provide for their daughter.
“When I was 50, Lyla’s father died in tragic circumstances. I stopped watching TV. I had no income. I lived off the scraps of a few books,” Trinny said.
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“I remember I was at my husband’s funeral and afterwards I had people over at my house and I had some really good friends and they were like, ‘Trinny, we know you want to start this idea, but you have to tell Lyla to be responsible. should you get a job instead?”
“I told them I couldn’t be 60 and wished I had started earlier. So they said send us the business plan when you’re done and they were one of the first investors.’
Terrible: Trinny remembers the day it happened, before becoming emotional as she relived what it was like to tell her daughter Lyla, who has just turned 11.
Trinny has her late husband, mr. Elichaoff, 55, a former musician, met in rehab in the 1990s. She has been open about her struggles with cocaine and alcohol addiction in the past.
“We met during recovery. He was in a bad motorcycle accident and he was on painkillers … every year of our marriage he was in rehab trying to kick that addiction,” she said. They were married for ten years before divorcing in 2009.
“It’s very difficult to end a marriage if it’s not like someone ran away with someone else. It’s more of a sense of responsibility, that you have to take responsibility for the decision.
But after that we were fine. We talked every day and then I met Charles [Saatchi] Also. Then things started to go wrong for him and he took his own life.”
Trinny remembers the day it happened, before she got emotional, when she relived what it was like to tell her daughter Lyla, who had just turned 11.
Hard: Telling Lyla (pictured) about her father’s death was one of the hardest days of Trinny’s life
“There’s a wonderful woman called Julia Samuel and she wrote a book called Grief Works and she actually worked with William and Harry when their mother died,” she said.
“She was just known as this wonderful person and she happened to be a friend of my sister’s. And the day it happened, my sister said I would call her.
“Lila was at school and the police came by and I just said I didn’t know how to tell her. So Julia came over and then she said “tell him he had a heart attack in his head”.
“So she came home from school and it gets, oh, I always get mad about it. She came home from school and I took her upstairs and told her. She let out that scream like an animal. And I remember really hugging her, you know, when you have a child that’s in pain, you really hug her, and I just told her those words that Julia told me, and that was the hardest part ‘what I had to do in my whole life.’
Mr. Elichaoff was previously the rock drummer for the band Stark Naked and the Car Thieves, which toured the world in support of U2 and Siouxsie Sioux in the 1980s.
But he soon abandoned the rock star lifestyle and became a financial adviser, appearing as an antiques dealer on Channel 4’s Four Rooms.
Johnny and Trinny were married in 1999 in Knightsbridge at St Columba’s Church where Miss Woodall was baptized, her parents were married and her grandfather was buried.
Struggle: Trinny has her late husband, mr. Elichaoff, 55, a former musician, met in rehab in the 1990s. She has been open about her struggles with cocaine and alcohol addiction in the past
Source: Daily Mail
