Andrea Corr admits she didn’t think she’d ever be a mother, after suffering five miscarriages over the last few years.
The singer shared her heartache over the situation, revealing it was an incredibly isolating time.
“The first two were the most devastating as I didn’t have Jean and Brett then. And I didn’t know if I’d ever be a mother,” she said on ITV’s This Morning.
“Every time, no matter how often it happens, as soon as you discover you’re pregnant, you so quickly go into the mode of hoping and dreaming for this child – and then suddenly it’s all gone.”
She continued, “It’s a very lonely place to be… nobody knows about what is not visibly there.”
Andrea, who’s now mum to two little boys, shares more on the devastating miscarriages in her new book, Barefoot Pilgrimage.
“I walked and I prayed,” she reveals in the biography. “And my mother-in-law, Pat (a blessing in herself) prayed and lit a candle for us every day. Torches and tallow lamps, often to ‘the Little Flower’ St Therese, for whom there is a shrine in the church of St Jean.”