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Claudia Rose Maguire stands alongside Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk ahead of singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' in memory of Diogo Jota before the Reds' friendly with Preston North End(Image: PNEFC)

Claudia Rose Maguire, the singer who sung ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ in memory of Diogo Jota ahead of Liverpool’s friendly with Preston North End, has admitted she couldn’t look at supporters as she would have ‘burst into tears’.

Maguire, wife of former Preston striker Sean, gave an emotional rendition of North End’s anthem of ‘Can’t help falling in love with you’, before following it up by singing the Reds’ own anthem.

She only found out she would be singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ on Friday, and admitted it was the ‘scariest phone call’ she has ever had after reflecting on performing both songs in honour of the Liverpool striker, Jota, and his brother, Andre Silva, who were killed in a car crash earlier this month.



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“It was the scariest song I think I’ve ever had to sing,” Maguire admitted on BBC Radio Lancashire.

I know the song, it’s fine.’

“And then I called the person who we liaise with and he was like, ‘So you know you’re singing the two songs?’ And that was only on Friday I found that out.

“So that was probably like the scariest phone call I’ve ever had because I had just been preparing one song the whole time.

“Then you get told you'll be singing the biggest song ever, You'll Never Walk Alone.

“So I was, I think the whole weekend, in my mum and dad's house, I just sang that and the neighbours must have just been pulling their ears out, saying, 'why is she singing this song over and over again?'.

“But I just wanted to do it justice and had it perfectly sung.

I didn’t want to do anything that was like… put too many embellishments or anything on it because it should be sung the way the fans sing it.

“So it was quite scary but I just wanted to do it justice.”

Maguire thanked supporters for all the messages and comments she had received following the rendition as she revealed she would remember Reds fans singing along with her forever.

“As weird as it sounds, it was a relief (when it was over),” she said.

“The whole time I just kept saying to myself, ‘Close your eyes and do not look at any fans’.

“Because I think if I opened my eyes and looked around, I would have just burst into tears because of what it meant on the day especially.

“I’ve been to Liverpool matches before and when you hear them sing You’ll Never Walk Alone, it’s emotional even then.

“But with the added reason for it, I actually had to take myself out of the place and just sing the song.

“So when I finished the song and looked around, I actually felt like I was going to fall to the floor.

I think it was all the nerves, like that relief, just knowing I had done it and it had gone okay and the fans were happy.

“Hearing them sing along with you is something that I will remember forever.

But I think once I finished, it was definitely a relief.

“All the messages and comments I've got from fans, it has just been so overwhelming and I'm just so grateful for them.”

Maguire had also taken to social media on Sunday night as she reflected on being asked to sing both songs.

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Posting a picture of her in front of the Liverpool supporters, she wrote: “A day for the memory books for my family and I today.