Lorna Luxe has revealed her late husband John Andrews gave her dating advice before he passed away aged 64.
The influencer, 43, lost John, to whom she was married for 16 years, in February following his 2023 diagnosis and subsequent gruelling battle with stage four adrenal cancer.
In a new interview, Lorna revealed how she has discovered notes on her phone from John about how she should go about finding love again and the type of man she should avoid.
‘He wrote notes of the type of person he wants me to be with,’ she told The Sun. ‘Things like: “This person needs to be kind,” or “Don’t let them do this. That’s a red flag.” He said: “I worry about your money, so don’t have a joint bank account.” It’s all these cute things where he’s just trying to protect me.
‘One of my big fears right now is, what if that was my one great love and I’ve lost it? And that’s it now, because no one’s going to come close.’
Lorna added she feels like she is ‘starting from scratch’ but there’s ‘no way she will stay single forever’.
Lorna Luxe has revealed her late husband John Andrews gave her dating advice before he passed away aged 64
Lorna added: ‘I’m such a sociable animal, I’ll be craving attention. I’ve now got to start all this c**p again at 43, when I don’t look as hot as I did when I was 20, and the pickings do get slimmer.’
The influencer said what gives her hope of finding love again is that John hadn’t met her at the age she is now and so ‘life has to keep going on’.
Lorna and John met when she was 25 and he was 46. Lorna was in the midst of her eight-year stint as a Virgin Atlantic air hostess, before marrying in NYC shortly after and going on to live together in Hove, East Sussex, and later Horsham and Warwickshire.
While John previously worked as a banker, following his cancer diagnosis in 2023 and Lorna’s continued success as an influencer, he gave up his job to focus on his health and helping his wife work.
The couple liked to indulge in posh hotel stays and ‘dirty weekends’ in far-flung destinations.
In the last few years prior to his death, Lorna and John said they made sure to live life to the very fullest.
Lorna said she thinks she will keep her next relationship more private.
In April, Lorna recalled John’s ‘slow and sad death’, saying: ‘The body fights it — it’s not an easy, relaxing, passing-into-sleep thing.’
In a new interview, Lorna revealed how she has discovered notes on her phone from John about how to go about finding love again and what to avoid in a new lover
Lorna explained how his death was not how she had imagined it to be as ‘every breath became a chore’.
Talking about his sad passing, Lorna told The Times: ‘It wasn’t anything like you see in the films – I’d imagined me nattering away to him until the last minute and him squeezing my hand. But this was slow and sad.
‘When I started to go through John’s phone for his passwords, as he told me to, he’d left these short, sweet, beautiful notes.’
Lorna explained how he had also left a ‘funny’ list of people she wasn’t allowed to date, but wasn’t ‘naming names.’
The couple married 16 years ago on her 26th birthday with John upgrading her diamond engagement ring for a 15-carat version to celebrate 15 years together.
