Mary Kennedy has revealed that she was worried that she would lose her job after the end of her marriage in 1997.
Mary was married to Ronan Foster for 15 years and share four children together, Eva, Tom, Eoin, and Lucy.
However, the couple called time on the marriage in the late nineties before divorcing in 2005.
Speaking to the Irish Independent, she explained that it was one of the most difficult periods of her life.
“I would also say that it was a very sad time when my marriage ended. I was working full-time in RTÉ at the time, and I did feel like, ‘Will I ever work again?’ But that was a different Ireland,” she explained.
There was a sense of failure, obviously, but you get on with it. I think everybody gets married wanting for it to last forever, and when it doesn’t, it’s very sad.”
She also opened up about the sudden loss of her father when she was just 21.
“The first is when I was teaching English in France when I was 21, and my father died suddenly while playing golf at the age of 59. I came home not having been told that he was dead. The period after that was very difficult.
“My mother died 20 years ago, but she was in her 80s, and it was much better than my dad’s timing because we had time to say goodbye and to tell her that we loved her,” she shared.
