Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Classical star set to tackle motherhood
Rea on his marriage to IRA bomber Price
SOPRANO Camilla Kerslake and rugby star hubby Chris Robshaw are expecting their first child.
The pair, who married in 2018, said the baby is due at the end of May but did not reveal its gender.
Camilla, 32, told Hello! magazine: “Lockdown is why we decided to get pregnant. I don’t have to take a career break because it’s not like I’m turning down any work.”
Chris, 34, added: “We’re really excited for this next chapter. Camilla will be a fantastic mum – she’s really good with kids.”
The couple recently relocated to Las Vegas, where Chris is playing Major League rugby.
Camilla said: “I think it’ll be cool that the baby’s birth certificate will say ‘born in Las Vegas’.”
STEPHEN Rea has opened up about his marriage to late IRA bomber Dolours Price saying he had to leave her to “save everybody”.
The pair were married in 1983, two years after she was released from prison for her role in the 1973 car bombing of the Old Bailey in London.
They divorced in 2003 but shared two sons together – Oscar and Danny.
Speaking about his marriage to Dolours, who died in 2013, Rea said: “My father was an alcoholic and drank himself out of a job. We started moving around, you know, to survive.
“I had that kind of drama which is deeply upsetting if you’re young.
“And then strangely I married someone who was so troubled.
The actor, 74, told The Tommy Tiernan Show last night for a sensitive person like her, it was very tough,
Rea, from Co Derry, said: “She masked it very well at the beginning because she came out of prison, I’ve never talked about this before by the way.
“She came out of prison after eight years, how could she be anything but destroyed?”
Dolours was given a life sentence, which was later commuted to 20 years.
She went on immediate hunger strike and was force-fed by the British prison authorities. Rea said: “We were both at a stage in our life where we had missed some years – in my case relationships weren’t going anywhere – and we both wanted children.
“In the end we had two sons which have brought me intense happiness.
“The great thing about the lockdown is that I’ve been with the boys in my house basically a year and it’s been actually great.”
The Crying Game star added he decided to end the marriage in order to “save” himself and his two sons.
He said: “The marriage was so destructive in many ways that I’m not rushing into anything.
“She was very funny, very literary, my two guys have wonderful vocabulary which a lot of that comes from her. “She just wasn’t able, you know.
“It happened over a period of time but I read a piece in a paper where a woman, a mother, had to get her son who was an addict to leave the house.
“She said in it, ‘Until the addict leaves the house nobody is going to get any better’. I cut it out and I kept it and reminded myself of it all the time.
“That’s a mother putting her own son out of the house.
“I had to negotiate a separation, I mean, I got her a house and everything.
“It wasn’t just to save myself, it was to save everybody, it was to save the boys as well.”
RTE viewers were in awe of the honest conversation between the two men and took to Twitter to talk about it.
One wrote: “Remarkable interview on the Tommy Tiernan Show with Stephen Rea. Absolutely incredible.”
Another posted: “That interview was so intriguingly captivating – sensational television.”