Twins? This won’t be the last time
Ronnie’s wife on cancer all-clear and baby hopes
Ron and Sally with twins Alice and Gracie Brontes musical is timely in the #Metoo era Couple have night out last month
The Rolling Stones guitarist, 70, smoked for 50 years but quit when she gave birth to their daughters Alice and Gracie, now two.
Sally said coping with his diagnosis of lung cancer last year was tough but made them “incredibly grateful” for their lives together.
And now Ronnie’s health worries are over, their plans could involve increasing their brood.
She said: “I’d love to have twins again. We’d be very happy if more arrive. Twins are much easier because they play together.
“Twins again and then we have double everything. We are good to go. I’m 40 now but you never know.”
Ronnie’s bandmate Sir Mick Jagger, 75, became a dad for the eighth time in 2016 when he had son Devereaux with ballerina Melanie Hamrick, 31.
And Sally said the tot was the last one standing at her daughters’ birthday bash in May.
She said: “Everyone else had left and Dev and Mick were still there, it was so sweet.”
Speaking for the first time since Ronnie got the all clear following an operation last year, she told of their ordeal after his diagnosis.
INTENSE
Sally said: “In a period of a week we moved house, the twins turned one and Ronnie had a major cancer scare. That was an intense week, that was too much.” She admitted she could not think of a future without Ronnie, adding: “I can’t really go there in my head but it is a part of life. “Anything can happen to anyone at anytime but it does highlight things. We live in the moment anyway. We don’t plan far ahead. “But it certainly makes you very grateful and appreciative and how fortunate we are. “I think that was one of the worst periods for me ever. A wave came over and would hit me every now and again. It was very private so nobody really knew. “There was a lot to deal with but it all happened very quickly so we were lucky. He obviously got better and recently had all of his tests done again and has been given the all clear so that is very positive.” Sally recently returned to work on Wasted, a new rock musical about the authors the Brontë sisters that she feels strikes a chord in the #Metoo era. She said: “The Brontës wrote under male pseudonyms and gave a voice to women at the time who were being silenced, and in turn changed the world. “It’s relevant to now and I can’t wait for everyone to see it. I’m loving being back at work, it’s important to show the twins I have a strong work ethic.”
halina.watts@mirror.co.uk Wasted opens at the Southwark Playhouse in South East London on Thursday until October 6.