Talented musician Sharon Corr has told how she couldn’t be a “deadweight” around her children when her marriage ended.
The Dundalk native and her husband Gavin Bonnar split in 2019 and she was based in Madrid during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The pair have two kids together, son Cathal, born in 2006, and daughter, Flori, born in 2007, and being in lockdown made their breakup harder.
“It is a very Irish thing to do as well to take the absolute piss out of yourself and make a joke that I’ve just been ironing and mopping the floors all day.
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"During Covid-19 in Madrid, I couldn’t get out.
"But I have to make a joke of those situations or spin the humour. It is one of the reasons the Irish survive so well and we come back fighting because we do tend to see the humour in extreme situations,” she told Sunday Independent Life magazine.
The Corrs musician said: “I wasn’t feeling that every day I can tell you, but I do believe if you give a lot of weight to a situation you get weighed down underneath it.
"It will weigh you down. You kind of have to jump above it. You have to try and bring lightness.
"You really do, because whatever frequency you’re bringing affects everybody around you.
“I couldn’t be around my children being a deadweight. ‘Here’s mum — she’s morose’
"I think situations are serious enough in life and there’s a time to be serious. But if you have a facility to be light about something and find the silver lining, I think that is better for your own mental health and for the mental health of everyone around you.”
She said faith is very important to her and her family.
She said: “I have faith in myself,
"I have faith in my children. I have faith in surviving. I have faith in the fact that if you get up after a fall then you have a really good start to move forward.”
And the former Voice of Ireland judge said she likes to keep things a lot more simpler in her life nowadays.
She said: "Definitely the more simple you keep it, the easier it is. I think, for myself, I’d have certain things that I would turn to now… trying not to worry too much, although I keep doing it.
"But I am aware of it. To have an overview of myself, I find extremely important while I’m doing things."
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