Ashley Cain’s ex Safiyya Vorajee has claimed they split because he turned to alcohol following the death of their baby daughter Azaylia.
Television personality Ashley, 33, and his ex partner Safiyya, 36, tragically lost their little girl when she was eight months old after she battled a rare form of cancer.
Azalyia was diagnosed with with acute myeloid leukemia 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.
Safiyya said both she and former Ex On The Beach star Ashley struggled with their grief, however he started to ‘drink quite a lot’ causing them to separate.
Speaking to Paul C Brunson on his We Need To Talk podcast, she said that she ‘waited for him’ to navigate his grief but it became to much for her.

Ashley Cain’s ex Safiyya Vorajee has claimed they split because he turned to alcohol following the death of their baby daughter Azaylia

Television personality Ashley, 33, and his ex partner Safiyya, 36, tragically lost their little girl when she was eight months old after she battled a rare form of cancer
Safiyya said: ‘I was like lets ride through this together and he had his own protective armour around him and the feelings and pain he was in, he couldn’t navigate it.
‘I kind of waited for him but he ended up drinking quite a lot and going down that road.
‘I’m not someone who really drinks and I needed him but he needed to be by himself.
‘There is no right and wrong with grief.’
Elsewhere in the chat, Safiyya revealed she gave Ashley a 90 day trial to step away from boozing when they first got together romantically.
At the time, Ashley was doing club appearances and DJing but Safiyya said the only way their relationship would work was if he came home afterwards instead of partying into the early hours.
She explained: ‘I said show me the man I want, I gave him the 90 day test. It was just slowing down the pace of going out and partying, so like go to work, get paid and come home because he used to party after.
‘I was like show me but if you don’t want to, that is fine, but he passed the test with flying colours’.
MailOnline has contacted Ashley’s representatives for comment.

Safiyya said both she and former Ex On The Beach star Ashley struggled with their grief however he started to ‘drink quite a lot’ causing them to separate
Elsewhere, Safiyya broke down as she opened up about an abusive ex boyfriend who ‘hit and beat her, smashed her car up and removed her closest friends and family from her life’.
Speaking about the unnamed ex, who she dated prior to Ashley, she said: ‘Relationships I’ve had an absolute mess with I ended up in a domestic relationship in my early 20s and I didn’t see that coming from how strong I didn’t see that coming.
‘It was the love bombing, I was feeling lonely and I felt like I needed a partner and even though my career and work were going well I felt empty and like I needed someone.
‘It was like he wants to take me to a fancy hotel and dinners and shopping and holidays and I was like yes I found this guy but these things were coming in gradually where I was like, “oh I thought you’d think like me wearing this” and slowly he was chipping away from me mentally and I thought everything I was doing was wrong and I was shrinking to suit him.’
Recalling one of her horrific incidents, Safiyya said: ‘I was driving in the car and I can’t remember what the disagreement was about but he whacked me straight in the face.
‘I stopped the car and pushed me out of the car and jumped into the drivers seat and I was just left and he drove off with my car and I had to borrow a phone to ring my mum to come collect me to take me home.
‘My mum told me not to go back again but I went back and I felt like it was my fault and it was insane. My mum tried everything to stop me. He was so sorry and he hadn’t done that before and he loved me so much and he’d prove it to me. I stayed for four years.’

She said: ‘I was like lets ride through this together and he had his own protective armour around him and the feelings and pain he was in, he couldn’t navigate it’
Paul asked if the abuse happened again and without hesitation she replied ‘repeatedly’.
She continued: ‘Constantly, to the point I would mask everything, absolutely everything.’
Safiyya revealed she was approached by a girl who revealed she had been seeing her ex and he had been telling her he was going to leave her and she thought she deserved to know.
She explained: ‘I was in the gym and this girl was waiting outside for me and said I need to talk to you about your partner and she got in the car and said she had been seeing him.
‘I didn’t go mad at her or anything I just said can you do me a favour because I have been in the worse place of my life for four years and can you come to my house and say this in front of him because no matter what you say or send me he will manipulate me and tell me its me going crazy or he might hit me because of these allegations. And she said yes.
‘We drove both my car and hers to my house and we went through the front door and he looked and went who is this and she said everything to him.
‘I had my two dogs, the house, the salon and everything there and I took the girl back to her car but I got back and he put holes in all my cupboards in the kitchen.

Elsewhere, Safiyya broke down as she opened up about an abusive ex boyfriend who ‘hit and beat her, smashed her car up and removed her closest friends and family from her life’
‘I was terrified to go back in that house. I put my armour on and I thought I’ve been hit, beaten, things thrown at me, had my car smashed up, I’ve had my friends and family removed from me and if I’m going to take one last beating I’m going for it and I’m not being bullied anymore.
‘I thought he was going to attack me and he was the opposite and he sat there and told me it was because I worked to much and I was like wow I’m not buying this anymore.
‘I still didn’t leave I didn’t tell my mum, they were sick of hearing it, so I slept on the sofa for the week and I ended up ringing the Samaritans and they stayed on the phone to me for three hours.
‘I went back to my mums house and she and other family members went and got my things and I had an injunction against him and I’d put a statement into the police for protection for me because I was petrified.’
If you have been affected by this story please contact Samaritans on 116 123; Alcohol Anonymous on 0800 917 7650 / help@aamail.org; The Lullaby Trust on: 0808 802 6868 / support@lullabytrust.org.uk