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Kirsty McCormack

Manchester Arena survivor overcome with emotion as he recalls losing partner in 2017 attack

A man who survived the Manchester Arena bombing fought back tears as he appeared on Thursday's Good Morning Britain.

Paul Price sadly lost his partner Elaine McIver in the tragic events of 2017 when an Islamist extremist suicide bomber attacked the Manchester Arena following a concert by US singer Ariana Grande.

GMB hosts Adil Ray and Charlotte Hawkins invited Paul onto the breakfast show to discuss the fateful night as documentary Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing continues on ITV tonight.

As Adil asked Paul to describe his late wife Elaine, Paul replied: "Elaine, obviously she was everything to me, she was the love of my life, I was the love of her life.

Manchester Arena survivor Paul Price appeared on Thursday's Good Morning Britain (ITV)

"But she was one of these people that you meet and you feel like you had known her forever. She was someone, she had the ability to... you'd wanna open up to her.

"She was a great organiser, she was someone that everyone went to with their problems, she's sort stuff out.

"You know, what can I say, to me she was everything, she was my world and now living without her every day is so difficult but I know she would want me to carry on and live the best life that I could and to be happy," Paul continued.

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"I often think if the roles were reversed, I'd want her to live the best life possible and to be as happy as possible and I try and do that for me, for my children, and for Elaine."

Adil and Charlotte also asked Paul about his daughter Gabrielle, who was 13 at the time of the attack, and was waiting for her parnets to collect her.

"Yeah I mean that was really upsetting, obviously on the night that she was waiting for her dad to pick her up, I was never gonna come," Paul replied as his voice began to break.

Paul sadly lost his partner Elaine in the devastating 2017 bomb attack (ITV)

"A couple sort of befriended them and managed to get them in a taxi and got them safely home, but it must have been so difficult for her to see me the way I was and I just felt helpless.

"It's been a journey. For her, she's been so brave, as has my son, both of them have been extremely brave. You know, you can't look inside their heads and from what I can see, she's doing everything that a normal 18-year-old should be doing now," he added.

Paul believes a man named Paul Reid, who was selling T-shirts at the concert, potentially saved his life as he stayed with him holding his hand immediately after the attack so that paramedics could help others.

The pair finally met in person last year whilst filming the ITV documentary as Reid admitted: "I tried to look for Paul in the weeks after the attack.

"I wanted to find out what happened to get some closure. I went into traumatic meltdown the day I left that bomb. Meeting Paul really helped."

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV and ITV Hub.

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