Former Atomic Kitten star Kerry Katona has opened up about the end of her marriage with Brian McFadden after he cheated on her with a lap dancer on his stag night
Kerry Katona has shared more details about ex-husband Brian McFadden’s infidelity before the former couple tied the knot in 2022.
Atomic Kitten singer Kerry, 44, and former Westlife singer Brian, 45, were once upon a time the pop music industry’s sweetest couple when they first started dating 2000. Kerry and Brian first locked eyes with one another when they met in August 1999, during a Smash Hits roadshow when their respective bands, Atomic Kitten and Westlife, were touring together.
Immediately sparks flew and the pair quickly started dating as they felt as though they were ‘made for one another’. Just two weeks later, Uptown Girl singer Brian proposed to Kerry and asked for her hand in marriage.
In 2002, Kerry and Brian tied the knot on what was meant to be the most special day of their lives, however, there was dark secret laying above their heads – and it was all down to Brain’s infertility on his stag do.
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During their marriage, Kerry and Brian welcomed two daughters Molly, 24, in 2001, and Lily-Sue, 22, two years later in 2003.
Although their marriage appeared to be going from strength to strength, when an earth-shattering revelation came to light, Kerry decided to immediately dump Brian. Kerry was left utterly heartbroken when it was revealed that Brian had cheated on her with a lapdancer at his stag do.
Brian later also cited fundamental incompatibilities, stating he woke up one day and realized he didn’t want to spend his life with Kerry and they had nothing in common.
Opening up about her first marriage split with Brian due to his infidelity, Kerry said that she was left blind-sided by his actions because she felt so in love with him. Lifting the lid on their relationship, Kerry told host Paul C Brunson on his We Need To Talk Podcast: “He doesn’t like me talking about him, but Brian’s a part of my story, only a small part.
“There’s been so much more than Brian. I’m eternally grateful… I’ll never forget walking down that aisle and thinking, this is crazy. Like four years ago, I was in a semi-independent home, and I’ve got Louis Walsh and Dane Bowers singing and London Gospel Choir. I’ve got Westlife at the altar…”
“It wasn’t love at first sight for me. It, you know, I think he was my first husband, the first time I had a child, my first proper love. It was so romantic, it was a fairytale. Brian was my very first love, I think. Proper love, yeah. Proper grown-up love,” Kerry shared.
“I say grown-up—we were 18 when we met. It was so overwhelming, and we were still only babies. Paul, I mean, it was… plus all this attention. It was madness.”
Gushing over her first love with Brain, Kerry went on: “Brian really made me laugh. He was… he’s so quick-witted and so funny, like he was. His humor is what won me over. He really loved me. We were so in love. I think he was the first proper person who genuinely cared about my well-being.
“I told him what happened to me, and he said, ‘I’m gonna take it away from all that.’ And he was my knight in shining armor. He rescued me. He was my knight in shining armor.”
However, sadly for Kerry, the fairytale wasn’t to last as Brian cheated on her with a lapdancer on the night of his stag-do.
Sharing her heartbreak with podcast host Paul, Kerry explained: “I didn’t know that Brian had cheated on his stag do before we got married. I only found out after we got married.
“The girl who we cheated on me with, with a lap dancer, he made her sign an NDA, which was stupid, really, because it’s in writing. Paid her 15 grand to keep her mouth shut, and she still went to the papers anyway.
“It was never the same after that with me and Brian. So I think even on the wedding day, Brian must have had doubts, but we were puppies, we were babies, and it was such a huge thing to do. I met Brian in 1999 and we separated in 2004, we divorced in 2007. So this is the thing people think, Paul, that I’ve just had like these things. I haven’t. I’ve gone in all wholeheartedly, and I’ve given it my all.”
Kerry admitted that she tried to forgive Brian for his cheating ways, but in the end, the resentment became too much to bare.
“Even after all the betrayals that have happened to me in my life, I’m still really trusting. I still give people the benefit of the doubt. I still believe in good people,” Kerry explained.
Kerry explained that her paranoia about Brian cheating on her again reached an all-time high and in the end, she couldn’t move past the fact that he gave the women he cheated on her with £15,000 to keep it quiet.
“What happened with that was too much… because I loved it when Brian was on stage. Then I was like, ‘He’s ringing? He texted? What you doing? Where you going?’ That’s not who I am.
“And then I resented him for making me become that person. I was the only one of the Westlife misses who knew there was going to be lap dancers at the stag do and I told Brian, ‘Enjoy it, sweetheart,’ not to go and get a bloody blow**b when she gets 15 grand. I only got a pair of shoes for giving him a blow**b.”
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