Ashley Cain’s ex Safiyya Vorajee has revealed the heartbreaking reason she isn’t ready to start a new family yet after their daughter’s tragic death.
Aesthetic practitioner Safiyya, 35 and the reality star, 33, split in April last year – although the pair are still close.
Ashley revealed just days ago that he is having another baby with a friend – two years after baby Azaylia Diamond Cain passed away.
Azaylia died at just eight months after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at eight weeks.
But Safiyya revealed that she herself is not ready to think about starting a family again after the tragedy of Azaylia’s death.
Ashley Cain’s ex Safiyya Vorajee has revealed the heartbreaking reason she isn’t ready to start a new family yet after their daughter’s tragic death (Ashley and Safiyya pictured with their baby)
Speaking to the BlueTick Show podcast before Ashley’s announcement, she said: ‘I am worried. I say I’m worried because where and how does that happen? You go through all of your scans to get told everything is OK.
‘I’m worried because with Azaylia and going through my journey I knew what an incredible mum I was and am to her.
‘I also know that with another child I would execute, probably catapault, so much love having another child. That is something I would just love to have.
‘I have to be in the right position and situation – the same way I was with Ashley – to have a family. There’s a tick list.’
She went on to reveal why she is finding it hard to find love again after her split from the footballer.
Safiyya continued: ‘Even dating, people are on all of these apps. I used to just meet people. It is insane. So maybe I might just be on my own in the house.
‘In my house, it’s so empty. My house should be a home. I want to get to that point where I can create a home and not just have a house.’
‘But it is scary after having a child and this is what happened.
Saffiya spoke to the BlueTick Show podcast before Ashley’s announcement, revealing she would be ‘worried’ about having another baby
Ashley has revealed he is preparing to become a dad again for the second time
‘My thing now, I want that family, but I won’t be prepared to sacrifice who I am and my morals as an individual to get that.
‘My morals are my morals. If God is going to put me on that path to allow another child to come into my life, then I’m here for it.
‘If Azaylia is my one and only daughter that I have until I’m united with her in heaven, then that’s what it’ll be.
‘But I need my family. I need to be a mother with the father and have that home. That’s just something I’ve longed for as a child.’
Ashley and Safiyya set up The Azaylia Foundation in their daughter’s memory, which aims to fight the shortage of doctors and treatments surrounding childhood cancer.
Prior to her death, they had raised more than £1.5million to fund her specialist treatment in Singapore.
Azalyia was diagnosed with with acute myeloid leukemia at eight-weeks-old and had tumours on her lungs, stomach and kidneys.
She was given several rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital but sadly died on April 24, 2021 when she was just eight-months-old, following a courageous battle.
Ashley went to his daughter’s grave to give her the news after feeling that he needed to tell her in order to feel good about his new baby
Opening up about how he felt after he received the news he confessed he found it difficult to process, but believes every child is a blessing
In an interview with The Sun, Ashley revealed his daughter was the first person he told about the pregnancy, visiting his daughter’s grave.
He candidly revealed: ‘After going to her resting place and speaking to her about it, I just had a feeling in my heart and in my soul that she was happy for me.
‘She was happy that she had a little brother and it is now just someone else for her to watch over and protect in this world.’
Ashley had been preparing for the Yukon 1000, the world’s toughest survival endurance race from Canada, through the Arctic circle, to Alaska, when he received a call in July from a friend who he was dating at the time revealing she was pregnant.
While Ashley hasn’t disclosed the identity of the baby’s mother, he said they have been friends since they were 18 and have met up on and off over the years.
Opening up about how he felt after he received the news he confessed he found it difficult to process, but believes every child is a blessing.
Of finding out that he is expecting a boy, he said: ‘In the back of my head I didn’t really know how to deal or cope with it if it was a little girl. It could have been fine but it could have been heartbreaking all over again and I wasn’t sure.’
Ashley said that Azalyia would have loved a a little brother and he is looking forward to becoming a father again.
But Ashley’s strength was tested again when the couple discovered at the 20-week scan that their baby has a potential heart defect.
He explained that the doctors couldn’t find the connection between one of the valves and the heart which naturally scared the star.
Although he is worried over his son’s health after his tough journey with Azaylia, he said he will go for a scan as soon as he is born to double check his health.
A timeline of Azaylia’s six-month leukaemia battle
October 2020: Ashley emotionally revealed his daughter had been diagnosed with a ‘rare and aggressive’ form of leukaemia, which he described as an ‘uphill battle’.
Heartbreaking: Ashley emotionally revealed his daughter had been diagnosed with a ‘rare and aggressive’ form of leukaemia in October
Azaylia was turned away by doctors three times and prescribed laxatives and a nasal spray when her breathing was impeded, shortly before her diagnosis.
By the end of the month, the brave child faced her second surgery and 16th chemotherapy-related treatment in less than two weeks.
November 2020: Azaylia’s hair started to fall out just weeks after she was diagnosed.
Doctors informed Ashley and his family that the tot needed a bone marrow transplant and blood donation.
Due to her Caribbean, Burmese, Indian and English background, the footballer said it was very difficult to find a match for a transplant.
Azaylia was brought home for a few days before her second round of chemotherapy.
December 2020: 80,000 people became stem cell donors 48 hours after Ashley appealed for the public’s help.
So sad: Azaylia’s hair started to fall out just weeks after she was diagnosed in November
January 2021: The TV star confirmed a stem cell donor had been found for his baby daughter Azaylia.
She received her stem cell transplant but her cancer sadly returned following a third round of chemotherapy.
February 2021: Azaylia responded well to her stem cell treatment and doctors were impressed with ‘how strong she was’.
She underwent further surgery to discover whether her leukaemia had gone. Later in the month, doctors revealed her cancer had returned.
March 2021: They were told there were ‘very few options’ to help the baby’s condition before she had another bone marrow test. She relapsed by the end of the month and underwent her fourth round of chemotherapy.
Ashley surpassed his target goal of £1million after he set up a GoFundMe to pay for life-saving treatment for his daughter Azaylia.
Heartbreaking: Healthcare professionals revealed Azaylia only had a few days to live as they discovered tumours all over her body
The former Ex On The Beach star took to social media to ask fans for help in donating, explaining the treatment his daughter needed is available in Singapore.
Ashley described the treatment, CAR-T therapy, as ‘the only option to save Azaylia’s life’ and said he and partner Safiyya may have to fly out in a matter of weeks, adding it will take a minimum of one year.
Celebrities such as former TOWIE star Kate Ferdinand, Love Island’s Molly-Mae Hague and PrettyLittleThing founder Umar Kamani all donated.
Despite efforts from around the world, pharmaceutical companies could not release the life-saving drugs needed to beat his daughter Azaylia’s battle.
April 2021: Healthcare professionals revealed Azaylia only had a few days to live as they discovered tumours in her stomach, her spleen, her liver and her kidneys, in addition to tumours in her brain.
Her parents bathed her in the hospital for a final time before they returned home.
They marked her turning eight months old by having moulds made of her feet, and Azaylia was met with support from the London Underground and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
She received life-prolonging transfusion after her condition caused profuse bleeding and public figures joined the nationwide clap held in her honour.
Azaylia was nominated for a Pride of Britain award and had a plane draw a heart in the sky for her.
The tot was put on oxygen to aid her sleep, and struggled to open her eyes due to swelling.
Scam artists set up fake Facebook pages in her name, with Ashley admitting: ‘We feel really sad it has come to this’.
Azaylia returned to hospital for another platelet transfusion a few days before she died.
The influencer’s ‘fragile’ daughter stopped breathing and suffered seizures before Ashley confirmed her death.
