Riyad Mahrez's wife Taylor Ward reveals how she dealt with heartbreaking loss ahead of her lavish wedding to the former Man City star

Taylor Ward has opened up connected the heartbreaking acquisition of losing her gramps soon earlier her wedding to erstwhile Manchester City prima Riyad Mahrez. 

The societal media influencer and world tv prima joined Mahrez successful Lake Como past year, with the acquisition captured by cameras for the 2nd play of Amazon Prime's Married To The Game. 

Ward starred successful the archetypal play of the programme, which follows the partners and families of Premier League stars, with the amusement pursuing her and Mahrez's bombshell determination to Saudi Arabia. 

Mahrez booked the £30million determination successful the summertime of 2023, leaving Manchester connected the heels of securing the club's historical treble for Saudi Pro League broadside Al-Ahli. 

As good arsenic sharing penetration into the couple's caller beingness successful Saudi, cameras tracked the build-up to Mahrez and Ward's third wedding ceremonial successful Italy. 

But calamity struck successful the build-up to the large day, with Ward's paternal gramps passing successful what she describes arsenic a 'huge loss'.   

'I deliberation opening up (on camera pursuing her grandfather's death) was truly hard,' Ward said astatine a screening of the archetypal episode. 'I deliberation that's wherefore you spot maine outcry a batch connected the show, due to the fact that naturally, I'm specified an affectional person. 

'My emotions conscionable travel done the infinitesimal anyone mentions it, I get a teardrop successful my eye. 

'And I conscionable deliberation that is wherefore the amusement is truthful real, though, and they captured each those moments. That was what was happening astatine the time, and I was conscionable surviving done that. 

'I deliberation it people is hard erstwhile you're perpetually speaking astir those topics. 

'But personally, astatine the time, I don't cognize determination was adjacent much stressful than what you spot connected the show, due to the fact that my gramps is simply a immense portion of our lives, obviously, and a immense loss. So yeah, conscionable truly sad, really.'

Ward added that she inactive recovered discussing his decease challenging 'without crying', but spoke to the value of being her existent aforesaid portion filming the world series. 

'It was truly sad,' she added. 'And I deliberation you bash spot that connected the show. 

'But the wedding each came together, and it was amazing. It's conscionable 1 of those things, and you person to navigate done it arsenic a family, and conscionable beryllium determination for each other.' 

Ward's quality successful the archetypal play saw the mates conflict to travel to presumption with the immediacy of Mahrez's determination to Saudi, with Ward captured crying arsenic she explained that she felt similar she had nary 'choice' implicit the determination to uproot her life. 

But implicit a twelvemonth later, Ward revealed that she is present happily ensconced successful her caller home, successful portion owed to the accrued closeness she feels to Mahrez and their family. 

'I've decidedly settled determination now, and I deliberation it decidedly feels much similar location than it did originally,' Ward continued. 

'I conscionable emotion the chill clip erstwhile we're there. We conscionable bash truly mean things. We walk a batch of clip unneurotic arsenic a family, and it's conscionable a truly nice, peaceful spot to live. 

'You've got the formation and loads of beauteous Pilates studios, matcha cafes, it's gorgeous. And you get clip to bash a batch of things that you wouldn't needfully get clip to bash if I was present and due to the fact that you're truthful engaged seeing your friends and stuff. 

'So it's conscionable bully to bash truly mean things.' 

Married To The Game Season Two volition premiere connected Amazon Prime connected Tuesday, April 8.