CILLA Black is considered one of Britain’s greatest entertainers of all time.
When she sadly passed away in 2015 she left behind her children – we take a look at who they are.
Who are Cilla Black’s children?
Cilla had four children with her husband Bobby Willis.
She had three sons called Robert, Ben and Jack and a daughter Ellen who sadly passed away shortly after birth.
In an exclusive interview with Piers Morgan in 2009 during an episode of Life Stories, she explained how she blamed herself for her daughters death, she said: “I was inconsolable, riddled with guilt, enmeshed in depression from which I was convinced there was no return.”
Her oldest son Robert also acted as her manager after his father Bobby died in 1999.
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What have Cilla Black’s children said about her death?
Robert, the TV entertainer’s eldest son, discovered his mum’s body at her Spanish villa.
Speaking about the tragedy revealed he is comforted by the fact she didn’t have to suffer the ill health of growing old.
He told the Mail on Sunday: “Her mother suffered from osteoporosis and in old age, slowly became a shadow of her former self. That was my mum’s darkest fear, that the same thing would happen to her.
“So as much of a tragedy as her death was, I think that in some respects she would have chosen to go when she did because for her it was all about having a quality of life.”
Meanwhile, since her death her family have discovered a trove of previously unseen footage and audio recording found in her loft.
They will be unveiled in an exclusive one-off documentary called Cilla: The Lost Tapes on ITV tonight (February 19, 2020).
How did Cilla Black die?
Cilla was 72 when she died on August 1, 2015 from a subarachnoid haemorrhage.
The former Blind Date host was found her dead on her sun terrace by her son Bobby at her holiday home in Estepona Spain on the Costa Del Sol.
She had suffered a traumatic head injury sustained in a fall possibly attributed by the extreme heat of that particularly hot summer.
She outlived her long term partner and manager Robert (Bobby) Willis who passed away from lung cancer in 1999.
