Jane McDonald has been married twice during her life, although both of her marriages ultimately ended in divorce.
Her second marriage was to Dutch plumber Henrik Brixen, who eventually became her manager. However, during an appearance on the Table Manners podcast this week, the singer admitted that she felt she never had feelings for her ex-husband.
"It's really strange this, because I should have had the best time of my life," she explained. "I just got to Vegas, but I knew my marriage was on the brink."
When asked whether she had ever loved him, Jane replied: "Oh no, I really wasn’t, everybody could see it and was going, 'that's not gonna last'. I was the only one who didn't see it, but he was a great guy, and he did his best."
The former Loose Women star also indicated that the pair faced issues in their marriage because of Henrik managing her career and his lack of experience in the music industry. "I was a club artist, a cruise ship singer, which was like, we don’t allow this in our industry," she explained.
"And nobody thought for one minute that I would go straight to number one with that album, nobody. Not even the record company. It was a shock to everybody. And then my tour sold out massively, which was, you know, another learning curve.
© WireImage"And I was learning the business with Henrik along the way. So it was like, hang on a minute. This is not tallying up [..] but it's a game, and you have to play it."
Love of Jane's life
Jane eventually found love with Searchers drummer Eddie Rothe. The pair had previously dated in the 1980s when Jane was a teenager before they lost contact, eventually reconciling in 2008 when they crossed paths again on the set of Loose Women.
Although Eddie proposed in 2008, the couple didn't walk down the aisle, with the musician passing away from lung cancer in 2021.
Speaking to HELLO! three years after his death, Jane said: "It's the biggest shock ever because your life completely changes. You have to rebuild and I was very grateful that I had another life besides Ed. My career was still going on and my friends were there."
She continued: "There's no way of dealing with it. You just have to rebuild [your life] in the best way you can. For me, that's going out and seeing my fans again and saying to those who have gone through the same as me, I know what you're feeling."
