Sharon Corr has opened up about her split from Gavin Bonnar, her husband of 18 years. Speaking candidly in a new interview she revealed that she had a breakdown on a flight to Switzerland after the couple decided to go their separate ways.
Chatting to The Irish Mirror the singer shared; “I was going through a tumultuous experience. I was on a plane from Madrid to Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Something very personal and distressing had occurred the day before, which shocked me.”
“I was reeling, absolutely reeling, from it.”
Continuing, the Corrs singer shared; “I was crying on the plane and I didn’t care that I was crying. If people were looking at me, that didn’t matter.”
The way she dealt with emotion was through music, and after the flight she was on became delayed by a few hours due to weather it allowed her time to think; “I felt the gigantic storm outside was in sync with what was going on in my life.”
“It was almost therapy, because there was definitely a huge storm going on inside of me. These words of a song just started to fall out of me. While the plane took ages to take off, I wrote and wrote and wrote.”
The pair married back in 2001, in a ceremony in Church of St John, Cratloe, Co Clare and made the decision to go their separate ways back in 2019.
They share share two children, Cathal and Flori, and a source close to the family has revealed that they remain the singer’s priority.
Since the split, Barrister Gavin Bonnar went to live with Telma Ortiz, the sister of Spain’s monarch, Queen Letizia.