Rod Stewart believes 'divorce is ruin': It only took him 3 wives to figure that out
Sir Rod Stewart has once again managed to woo the planet by teaming up with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to host an online concert with daughter Ruby Stewart in an attempt to raise awareness about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Friday night event saw the crooner perform with his daughter from his relationship with Kelly Emberg. Alongside the two was Stewart's current wife Penny Lancaster, the couple's two sons Alastair and Aiden, and Stewart's son from his first marriage, Sean.
Stewart and Lancaster looked particularly thrilled as they sang and jammed together to offer hope and faith amidst harrowing times like these.
It also reminded us why Stewart has called his wife 'phenomenal' in the past, claiming they are safe from splitting ever.
This comes after two previous marriages on Stewart's end, the second of which managed to leave the British heartthrob pretty heartbroken. It seems to have brought him some insights too as he later labeled divorce "the ruination of mankind".
Out of a total of eight significant others that have made headlines in the past, Stewart has been married only three times.
However, he has eight children from five out of those relationships, the oldest of whom is daughter Sarah, from his relationship with Susan Boffey.
After Boffey, Stewart is reported to have been in three other significant relationships, with Jennie Rylance, Dee Harrington, and Britt Ekland—who claimed to have ended their relationship because Stewart was unfaithful.
It was after their break up in 1977 that Steward married Alana Stewart nee Collins in 1979, and the couple went on to have two children: daughter Kimberly, and son Sean. Their marriage fell apart in 1984, and in an interview with HuffPost, Alana opened up about the infidelity on the singer's part that led to the couple's separation.
After finding out that Stewart was having an affair with a model 15 years younger than her, Alana was left 'devastated', and even though their marriage officially ended in 1984, Stewart was already in a relationship with the young model, Kelly Emberg, since 1983. The couple went on to have daughter Ruby together, but once again, their relationship suffered the brunt of the singer's incessant womanizing, until they finally split in 1990.
Shortly after, Stewart met and married his second wife, Rachel Hunter, and they welcomed two children, Renee and Liam, before divorcing in 2006.
In a bombshell interview with the New York Post, Hunter came clean about why she left Stewart, and even though this time infidelity wasn't mentioned explicitly, Stewart was left pretty heartbroken following their divorce.
It is then that Stewart lamented about the woes of divorce and what it does to a family.
"Divorce is the ruination of mankind. I know a lot about it, and the devastation it causes to children," he had told Daily Mail. “I couldn’t believe it. I was a rock star. You don’t dump a rock star! It knocked me for six. It was a huge shock," he had told The Mail on Sunday’s Weekend magazine.
Shocked and outraged as he might be, it didn't take long for Stewart to find love again.
This time, it was yet another gorgeous blonde with legs for days—the 'Loose Women' panelist Lancaster. The couple began dating in 1999, when Stewart was still married to Hunter, and after Stewart and Hunter's divorce was finalized in 2006, he and Lancaster got married in the cloistered medieval monastery La Cervara in Portofino on 16 June 2007.
After 12 years together, Stewart and Lancaster's marriage seems to be going strong as ever after meeting "on a club night at London’s Dorchester Hotel," as Stewart has spilled to Daily Mail, adding: “I noticed the phenomenal way she moved. No wonder she ended up on Strictly.”
It might have taken Stewart two failed marriages to see the harsh reality of divorces, but when it comes to his current marriage, the couple has some strong relationship goals to offer. Even though Lancaster might slip up and publicly confuse her husband's age with her father's at times, Stewart said in an interview with The Mail on Sunday’s Weekend magazine that "Penny’s great. She’s very grounded, but I don’t want to say normal because she’s extraordinary. She keeps the family together.”
No wonder the couple are now practicing social distancing at the singer's Florida home together.