The widow of former Cardiff City star Jlloyd Samuel has opened up about her late husband's alleged double life. The defender enjoyed a short loan spell with the Bluebirds in 2011, and previously played in the Premier League for Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers. He would later go on to spend four years plying his trade in Iran before returning to the UK.
Samuel tragically died in a car crash at the age of 37 back in 2018, after his Range Rover collided with a van shortly after he had dropped his children off at school . Shell-shocked, his widow Emma Pritchard has since revealed how she found out the footballer had been leading a secret separate life. READ MORE: Cardiff City have finally got their man – now their next objective really begins READ MORE: Wales manager Rob Page pulls out of live show appearance amid calls for him to be sacked The pair married in 2008, but Pritchard was later told by a friend that Samuel had married Iranian fashion designed Helia Sehimi, who met the former England youth international during his time in Iranian football.
Sehimi, it's claimed, married Samuel in 2013, after he converted to Islam. Speaking in the documentary, which was made in 2022 but has only recently been made available on Netflix, charting Samuel's death and titled 'The Footballer, His Wife and the Crash', Pritchard said: “I was trying to grieve my husband and find he has another life. Who is my husband - do I really know him?” “There were even shots of Jlloyd that he'd sen.
