“The first two were the most devastating.”
Andrea Corr said that she didn’t know if she’d ever become a mother after suffering a series of miscarriages.
The Corrs singer recently told of her devastation in experiencing five pregnancy losses in her memoir, Barefoot Pilgrimage.
At the time, she said that there had been “a lot of suffering in silence” as she began to fear that each pregnancy would result in a miscarriage.
Today, she told Phillip and Holly on This Morning that she worried that she would never become a mother.
“I had five miscarriages,” she said. “The first two were the most devastating as I didn’t have Jean and Brett (her children) then. And I didn’t know if I’d ever be a mother.”
“It’s too big a part of my own spiritual evolution to exclude from my memoir.”
Andrea added that the grief she experienced following the death of her father felt different to the grief she felt after the loss of her pregnancies.
“It’s a very lonely place to be because everyone knows you’re grieving (after the death of a loved one) but nobody knows about what is not visibly there,” she said.
Andrea and her siblings lost their father, Jean, in 2015. The singer later said that her memoir was inspired by the death of her dad.
According to publishers HarperCollins, Barefoot Pilgrimage is “a compelling and honest memoir in part, an exercise in coming to terms with and making sense of life and mortality following the loss of a beloved father; in part, a reflection on an unlikely journey with her siblings through the music industry; in part, a meditation on family, on music, and on creativity; and, in part, a shout-out for love and for hope.”
Barefoot Pilgrimage is available to buy now.
