Patsy Kensit has said she does not regret having an affair with Liam Gallagher while still married to Jim Kerr, the lead singer of Simple Minds.
The actress, 58, spoke about meeting her ex-husband, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, 53, on a plane to Glasgow in a candid new interview on Davina McCall's podcast Begin Again.
A 'quite sweet' beginning
Patsy revealed that she and Liam got together after repeatedly running into each other, and described the start of their relationship as 'quite sweet' and not 'sleazy', as she and her then-husband were already leading 'separate lives'.
"We just kept running into each other. It was something that happened, and it was quite sweet. I mean, it wasn't a sleazy coming together. Jim and I were leading separate lives," she said.
She added that while she has some regrets, she is ultimately glad it happened because she and Liam had a son together, Lennon Gallagher, born in 1999.
"Do I regret that? Yeah, I look back now. But then I wouldn't have had my youngest son, and that's the blessing that came out of it. Because, there were some very tough times in in in that marriage."
Career overshadowed
The couple were married from 1997 until they divorced in 2000. The Emmerdale star revealed that during her time with Liam, the relationship became 'so big' that it overshadowed her own acting career.
"I think what I forgot in that time was how much I'd done before it. Yeah, and that was, and I I lost that for a little bit," she told Davina. "Because that relationship became so big, and it was bigger than me, and and therefore, the pressure was huge, and so yeah, of course, the Vanity Fair cover and all of that stuff, people love it. It was a very iconic time.
"I lost part of who I was going into that relationship. Somehow lost her."
Noel's wake-up call
Patsy said it was Liam's brother Noel who took her aside and gave her a wake-up call when he asked why she wasn't continuing to pursue her acting career.
"I remember Noel, who is lovely and divine, and I always tend to bump into him, and he's just always been lovely to me over the years. And I remember him taking me to one side and said, He said, 'Why aren't you working? Why aren't you?' Because I was always off doing films and going to the stages, and I remember saying 'Because I'm too afraid to leave him on his own', and he was like, "Yeah, you should be doing more.'"
She added that there were also great times in the relationship: "And then it [the marriage] ran its course. But there were some fantastic times. I mean, we were very irresponsible, and I always say I had some very late nights in the 90s."
Patsy went on to marry for the fourth time in 2009 to Jeremy Healy. The couple have since divorced, and Patsy called off her fifth engagement a few years ago to Irish property tycoon Patric Cassidy. Liam later had a relationship with Nicola Appleton, with the couple getting together soon after his divorce and marrying from 2008 until 2014.
