Tina Malone announced the devastating news her husband of 13 years has died on Wednesday.
The Brookside star, 61, and the personal trainer Paul Chase, 42, tied the knot back in 2010.
The couple were married for nine years before divorcing in 2019, however they later got back together the following year in February 2020.
The relationship hit rock bottom in 2017 after Tina said she was left feeling suicidal after she was arrested and cautioned for possession of cocaine following her performance in pantomime Sleeping Beauty.
Paul, meanwhile, lost his job caring for violent teenagers and the couple found themselves on the brink of bankruptcy.
Tina Malone announced the devastating news her husband of 13 years has died on Wednesday (pictured 2015)
The Brookside star, 61, and the personal trainer Paul Chase, 42, tied the knot back in 2010 (pictured 2017)
In 2018, Tina faced court proceedings after she shared a post on Facebook which purportedly included an image and Jon Venables’ new name.
The actress avoided going to jail after she admitted to breaching an injunction that protected the identity of Jamie Bulger’s killer.
After two ‘hellish years’, Tina said her mental health improved when she landed a role on Channel 5’s Clink, but Paul turned to drink as he struggled to find a job.
The couple tried for 18 months to make a go of things but Tina said she eventually came to the decision she wanted a divorce.
But after Paul found a job in the army, his mental health improved and they managed to patch things up.
‘Paul has learned he needs to recognise depression in himself and we are working on things, I say to him now: “I might want to kill you, but I’ll never divorce you”,’ Tina said.
Following their reunion in 2020, the soap star said their relationship was back to normal and said their ‘love never went away.’
She told Closer magazine at the time: ‘The love never went away, we’re working on things now, our problems were compounded by depression but I learned that in tough times you have to pull together and not apart.
The couple were married for nine years before divorcing in 2019, however they later got back together the following year in February 2020 (pictured 2014)
Tina and Paul, who was 19 years her junior, welcomed a daughter Flame, 10, together from IVF when the actress was 50 (pictured 2014)
Tina shared a statement announcing Paul’s death, it read: ‘It’s with total heartbreak I write this my husband Paul Chase Malone passed away this morning we are totally devastated’
‘We were either arguing, bickering or not talking at all, I’d end up putting Flame to bed and falling asleep next to her.
‘Paul and I had always had a great sex life but were barely touching each other. At one point, we didn’t have sex for five months.’
Previously opening up on her relationship with husband of 13 years, Tina revealed they ‘always had that attraction’.
Tina and Paul, who was 19 years her junior, welcomed a daughter Flame, 10, together from IVF when the actress was 50.
Tina is also a mother to daughter Danielle from a previous relationship.
Speaking last year about their relationship, despite being on the brink of divorce in 2019, Tina assured that ‘things are good’ now and her sex life is ‘better’ than ever.
She explained: ‘Even in times when I’ve loathed him, and we all have that in relationships, in the worst of times – never ever has he not turned me on. We’ve always had that attraction.
‘Sex just gets better as you get older. I’m 60 so I’m comfortable with myself. I like to think I’m accomplished at most things in my life now – and that applies in the bedroom too! Paul and I still have so much passion, after 13 years you know each other so well. He still gives me butterflies.’
Tina announced the death of her husband Paul Chase in a devastating social media post on Wednesday.
The statement read: ‘It’s with total heartbreak I write this my husband Paul Chase Malone passed away this morning we are totally devastated.’ Tina did not reveal Paul’s cause of death.
Speaking last year about their relationship, despite being on the brink of divorce in 2019, Tina assured that ‘things are good’ now and her sex life is ‘better’ than ever (pictured 2015)
