was “beside himself” and lost 12lbs due to a devastating point in his marriage.
The ex-Faces star has been married three times, and tied the knot with his current wife in 2007. They married just a year after Rod’s divorce from second wife Rachel Hunter came through in 2006; they’d been married since 1990.
His first marriage to Alana Stewart only lasted five years from 1979 until 1984. But it was Rod’s divorce from Rachel that shook him to the core.
Rachel confessed she was “unhappy” in her life after meeting Rod aged just 21, and didn’t want to follow him on tour any longer. In his autobiography Rod, the musician admitted: “She had reached 29 and she could see 30 coming and yet she felt like she didn’t even know who she was. She needed to go.”
Rachel and Rod officially split in 1998, but the pair decided to weather together for the sake of their children. And this period clearly took its toll on Rod as he wrote: “We said goodbye, quietly and painfully, and Rachel flew off to New Zealand with the kids to see her family.
Don’t miss…
Rod Stewart has been married three times (Image: Getty)
“It was only when I was back in Los Angeles, on my own in the house we had shared, and realising that our relationship was genuinely over, that the misery really came over me. For four months, I was beside myself.
“I lost 12lb in weight. I felt cold all the time. I took to lying on the sofa in the day, with a blanket over me and holding a hot water bottle against my chest. I knew then why they call it heartbroken: you can feel it in your heart.”
Though their divorce came through in 2006, Rachel confessed Rod was still “the love of her life”.
Rod Stewart was ‘beside himself’ during his split from Rachel Hunter (Image: Getty)
She told The Mirror: “If you’d asked me then what I liked or didn’t like, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. I didn’t even have a hobby.
“Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they’re 25, I felt I no longer had an identity. I was just nothing.”