Robert Lindsay has spoken about the breakdown of his marriage to the late actress Cheryl Hall, attributing the split to his reaction to glowing reviews. The pair were married from 1974 to 1980 and co-starred in the BBC sitcom Citizen Smith.
Lindsay on the cause of the split
Speaking with The Guardian in 2022, the My Family star said he had begun to believe "all that rubbish" about himself in favourable reviews. "That single-mindedness broke up my first marriage," he said. He echoed this sentiment in a separate interview with Radio Times and recalled speaking with a counsellor after what he described as his "terrible" divorce from Cheryl in 1980.
"I started using Prozac. A doctor in Ireland told me to chuck it in the Liffey," the TV star said. "He put me in touch with a counsellor who released a lot of the rubbish and illusions I had about myself."
Cheryl Hall's account
Before her death on 9 August at the age of 76, Cheryl also spoke about their relationship. Explaining that they had both been unfaithful, she told the Daily Mail: "It wasn't meant to be an open marriage, but we were both on the road a lot, and it's very hard, particularly when we were both so young, and we didn't have children."
Following their divorce in 1980, Robert and Cheryl went their separate ways. After a 14-year relationship with actress Diana Weston, Robert welcomed a daughter, Sydney Stevenson, in 1988.
Life after the marriage
After his split from Diana in 1994, he began dating actress and singer Rosemarie Ford, with whom he shares three sons: Sam, Jamie, and John. The couple married in 2006. "The break-up was caused by the pressure exerted on domestic life," Robert said of his split from Diana in a 2010 interview with the Daily Mail. "It was not an acrimonious break-up. The papers said it was. We laugh about it now — Diana and I remain great friends."
As for Cheryl, the Silent Witness star was married to Robert Potter from 1985 to 1989, with whom she welcomed sons Benjamin and Joshua.
