Anna Cardwell’s Husband Moved right into a New Dwelling 14 Months After Her Dying (Unique)

Anna Cardwell’s widower says residing within the dwelling the couple shared introduced “fixed recollections” of his loss.

In an unique interview with PEOPLE, Eldridge Toney mirrored on his choice to relocate greater than a yr after the death of his spouse.

Cardwell died at age 28 in December 2023 after she was identified with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma the earlier January.

“Once we moved into that place, that is when she started the most cancers journey,” Toney recollects. “And being at that home, it was only a fixed reminder of the most cancers.”

“Daily I’d get off work, I’d simply go to my room and simply just about shut myself out,” he continues. “It bought to a degree the place it simply, I could not do it no extra.”

Toney says the recent environment of his new dwelling, the place he moved in February 2025, introduced a optimistic change.

“Shifting to the brand new home was most likely among the best issues I might have performed,” says Toney, who seems on the present season of Cardwell’s mom’s collection Mama June: Household Disaster. “‘Trigger it was similar to a brand new begin and similar to seeing new issues and being in a brand new dwelling. It wasn’t a relentless reminder of all the pieces.”

In February 2024, Toney opened up about discovering the power to undergo his spouse’s belongings that he’d beforehand left untouched.

“I haven’t been within the bed room as a result of all the pieces was simply how she left it,” he advised PEOPLE. “The final evening we have been within the bed room was truly the day earlier than she had determined to go to hospice.” 

“All these emotions which might be drained with that room down there, particularly with all her stuff being precisely the way it was after we have been there…,” he continued. “And it was simply onerous to go down within the room, and I really feel prefer it was like one main factor that was type of giving me anxiousness about the home, however it type of was in the identical sense time.”  

Nevertheless, Toney mentioned he knew “it was time” to place away a few of Cardwell’s issues.

“We now have two closets within the bed room and I folded all of her garments and put it in bins and plenty of different issues that have been vital to her,” he shared. “I hung up her marriage ceremony gown and I closed the door.”

Toney added on the time that he wasn’t able to sleep of their bed room once more.

“I’m going to work in direction of it,” he mentioned. “It’s a course of however some days I’ll simply go in there and lay down. I gained’t fall asleep, however I simply spent a while in there. I’m gonna preserve spending extra time within the room in order that after I do make the choice to sleep in there, it gained’t be so proper in my face.” 

The couple began courting in 2017 following Cardwell’s divorce from ex-husband Michael Cardwell, with whom she welcomed daughter Kylee Madison in 2015. Cardwell was additionally mother to daughter Kaitlyn Elizabeth, born in 2012.

Cardwell and Toney married on March 4, 2023, in Wilkinson County, Georgia. 

Toney opened as much as PEOPLE about his grief days after the lack of his spouse. “It retains hitting me once more,” he mentioned. “It’s going to be quite a bit completely different.”

Toney added that the considered “going again to our dwelling with no Anna and with out the ladies” was “onerous to course of. It will be very lonely. It’s getting more durable.”

Mama June: Household Disaster airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on WE television.