Singer Corinne still grieving over loss

A world-class saxophonist, Jason Rae died nearly two years ago after an accidental overdose of methadone and alcohol following a drinking session with a friend.

But the singer, 30, said there are also still times when she feels the whole thing did not happen.

Rae died in March 2008 at a Leeds flat close to the couple's home in the Hyde Park area of the city. An inquest, which heard he had fought a long-standing drink and drugs problem, recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.

In an interview with the February edition of Mojo magazine she said she had been "pinballed around" by the different stages of her grief.

"For the first few months I thought I was doing it wrong because it wasn't coming to me," she said. "Then there would be times when I really, really would feel it.

"I used to feel like I was right at the bottom of the ocean. Totally overwhelmed. You felt like you'd be able to drift back up to the surface and breathe again."

She continued: "I definitely still feel like I'm in that process.

"The one useful thing I feel anybody's said to me is how long a process it is.

"There are lots of times, even now, when it feels like it hasn't really happened."

When the couple met she was a university student in the city and he had moved there from Aberdeen to study jazz.

She has written about their relationship and her loss on her forthcoming second album The Sea.