For a few years Rod Stewart was hiding an enormous household secret from his followers. In November 1963 he and his then girlfriend Susannah Boffey welcomed a daughter named Sarah. The teenage couple gave their youngster up for adoption and it might be many years earlier than she reconciled with Rod. Sarah Streeter was raised in rural Sussex by adoptive dad and mom Evelyn and Gerald Thubron. She had a cheerful childhood, completely unaware that the well-known singer who topped the charts within the Seventies was her father, and has admitted it was a profound shock when she discovered the reality. Regardless of assembly Rod few instances in her 20s she solely started a tentative reconciliation along with her beginning father when she was in her 40s in 2007 following the demise of each her adoptive dad and mom.
Sarah admits she has struggled with substance abuse points, similar to her half brother, Rod’s eldest son Sean, whose mom is Rod’s first spouse Alannah Stewart. In a 2018 interview alongside Rod, Sarah confessed she had been a serial abuser of cocaine and alcohol for a lot of her early 30s. Whereas she managed to get clear the demise of her adoptive mom Evelyn noticed her relapse and at one level she was hooked on crack cocaine.
“Why I am nonetheless right here I do not know. I carry an enormous quantity of guilt about what I put individuals by. The way in which it affected my household and family members was horrible,” she instructed MailOnline in a joint interview wth her father.
“However I’ve chosen to speak about it as a result of I believe it is vital to be sincere, and to point out that even for those who hit rock-bottom you will get over it.”
Sarah’s points started after she met Rod a handful of instances when she was in her 20s. Their relationship by no means took off and had fizzled out by the late 80s. for 20 years that they had barely any contact and it was throughout that point that Sarah, who works as a carer, turned hooked on cocaine.
She insisits her issues have been nothing to do along with her relationship with Rod. “I used to be single, in my late 20s, and I acquired in with the mistaken crowd. I believe it was not having a baby: there was this large gap in my life. Coke stuffed that gap,” she mentioned of their joint interview.
Whereas she managed to shake that habit, she then acquired hooked on alcohol to the extent the place she would have vodka for breakfast, which she says was very painful for her mom. Now clear and sober she has relationship with Rod and may be very a lot a part of the huge Stewart clan.
Rod opened upon his relationship together with his eldest youngster on The Pleasure Behar Present in 2010. “She was put up for adoption after I was 17 or 18, I believe. I used to be completely stone broke … and so she was put up for adoption. Since her mum and pop have died, we have tried to come back collectively and be shut collectively, and it is understanding fairly properly. I by no means felt like I used to be her dad, as a result of I did not take her to highschool, change her nappies, there was no paternal factor there, however I am attempting.”
In 2011 in a CNN interview with Piers Morgan he acknowledged: “The connection broke down considerably as a result of she was a bit awkward and had a giant chip on her shoulder which I can’t blame her [for]. However within the final couple of years we’ve change into considerably shut.”
In the identical interview Rod additionally admitted to feeling guilt about giving her up all these years in the past. “I really feel responsible about every part. I carry a number of guilt,” he mentioned.
