Dr Michael Mosley’s wife reveals moment it became ‘devastatingly obvious’ something had gone wrong
Dr Mosley died in June last year while on holiday in Greece with his family.
Dr Michael Mosley’s wife has shed light on the heartbreaking loss of her husband.
The beloved 67-year-old author, broadcaster and TV presenter was found dead on June 5, 2024, in a rocky area in Symi, Greece, after going on holiday with his family and friends.
His death was not believed to have been caused by accident-related injuries, homicide, or suicide, but there were extremely high temperatures on the day he died.
Dr Mosley was known for discovering that it was possible to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes with your diet.
He has also famously performed science experiments on himself, including ingesting a tapeworm and making black pudding out of his own blood.
Now, almost a year on, his wife, Clare, has discussed the fateful day he died and when she knew there was something ‘devastatingly’ wrong.
Dr Mosley was a broadcaster, author and TV presenter (Credits: Shutterstock)In an interview with MailOnline, Clare told how Dr Mosley wanted to go for a walk as she and their pals sunbathed around the pool.
But after hearing nothing back from him after several hours, given that his walk should have taken an hour in total, she started to become seriously concerned.
Clare, a retired GP, said that she immediately contacted the emergency services, but they were hesitant to help at first as they could not declare a person missing until after 48 hours.
But, after some convincing, the police in Greece began sending search parties out for her husband.
As daylight began to fade on that first day, Clare said: ‘I spent a couple of hours walking along the coast and through trees and gorse calling his name. Every time I met someone, I asked, “Have you seen him?”
‘Then it got dark. It became devastatingly obvious something had gone terribly wrong.’
She went on to say that when she went to bed, she just ‘curled up’ and ‘cried’.
Clare has described the ‘devastating’ moment she knew something was wrong with her husband (Credits: Maureen McLean/Shutterstock)As the search continued the next day, Clare and the friends they were staying with heard suggestions that he could have been abducted.
She added: ‘It was weirdly ironic because we were saying, “We hope he’s been held hostage somewhere”, because bizarrely that offered us a thread of hope when our hopes were fading.’
Later, it emerged that Dr Mosley had only died a couple of hours after leaving St Nicholas beach when he stumbled and fell down a rock-strewn mountain path.
He was actually much closer to safety than rescuers thought and was 100 yards from a spot that his children had already searched.
On learning that his body had been found, Clare said: ‘After that, we all slumped. I could make no sense of anything.
‘There was one photo of Michael on a stretcher with an arm sticking out and, having seen it, I could not unsee it. It was so distressing, so poignant.
‘And there was an amazing one, too, of the kids walking in a row, all dirty and dishevelled, looking exhausted after a day’s search, and they looked so purposeful and wholesome. That lifted me.’
Michael and Clare were married for 36 years and shared four children (Credits: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)Back in the UK, she explained how she was ‘shocked’ to see his name on a coffin and she ‘had not fully computed it’.
Discussing what she misses most about him, she added: ‘It’s the quiet, comfortable times when we would just sit together and chat nonsense,’ she says.
Towards the end of last year, the senior coroner for Buckinghamshire, Crispin Butler, declared Dr Mosley’s cause of death as ‘indeterminate’ and ‘unascertainable’.
He continued: ‘[It] was most likely attributable either to heatstroke (accidental) or non-identified pathological cause’ due to the ‘high temperatures’.
Following Dr Mosley’s death, his family have since set up a research project to honour his memory as he was known for popularising diets and fronting science programmes.
A new clinical research fellowship will be established in partnership with King’s College London and the Chronic Disease Research Foundation (CDRF) to help improve the nation’s metabolic health.
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