Sheryl Crow endured a hellish week when she split from Lance Armstrong. The former couple ended their engagement of two years back in 2006, but now Crow has revealed she was dealt with two other life-changing blows the same week of their split.
Crow, 64, not only received her breast cancer diagnosis, but she also learned the pro cyclist, 54, was seeing a 'really famous actress'. The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Armstrong for comment but did not immediately hear back.
'I was engaged. I had three beautiful step-children. I wanted to have kids with this person. We split. In the same week that we split, I got diagnosed with breast cancer, and I found out he was seeing a really famous actress,' she said on Bobby Bones' The Bobbycast podcast.
'I really felt like, I went through about nine months of radiation and grieving and anger,' she continued.
Crow got candid about the hellish week during an appearance on Bobby Bones' Bobbycast podcast. 'I had a really stoic oncologist who literally looked like my grandmother, but one of the things that she said to me was... "I've had a thousand women come in with breast cancer, don't miss out on the lesson,"' she recalled.
The ordeal forced Crow to reassess her priorities. 'It took my life screeching to a halt to get to a place to go, "Okay, who am I? And why am I doing what I'm doing? Do I love what I'm doing? What am I supposed to be doing?"'
Crow started dating Armstrong in 2003, the same year he and his first wife Kristin Richard announced their divorce. At the time, he had three children, a son and twin daughters. He later said that he broke up with her because they were 'up against her biological clock' and he was not ready to have more children.
Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France titles in 2012 following his doping scandal, went on to have two more children with his current fiancée, Anna Hansen. The All I Wanna Do hitmaker later went into remission and adopted two sons: Wyatt, now 19, and Levi, 16.
Although Crow didn't mention her famous ex by name, she has alluded to his past comments about the end of their relationship during an appearance on Hoda Kotb's podcast, Making Space, in 2021. 'You know there's one thing about a woman and the biological clock,' she said, 'we get blamed a lot for the demises of relationships. "Well, her biological clock" or "She wanted kids and I wasn't ready for that." And it's such, I don't want to say a sexist thing, but it does feel like that,' she added. 'I remember my last relationship crumbling largely because that is what I wanted.'
In addition to her ill-fated engagement to Armstrong, Crow has previously dated such high profile entertainers as Eric Clapton and Owen Wilson. In the 1980s, Sheryl quit her job as an elementary school teacher in St Louis, Missouri to pursue a music career in California. It was there she met and began working with Michael Jackson.
Crow was propelled into the limelight as a backing singer during the pop star's 18-month global Bad tour before going on to star in his music video Dirty Diana. Her storied career has since seen the singer songwriter sell more than 50 million albums worldwide and garner nine Grammy awards. Crow's hits include All I Wanna Do, If It Makes You Happy, and The First Cut Is The Deepest.
