Merely Purple star Mick Hucknall has addressed the hearsay that he had slept with over 3,000 ladies and admitted that he ‘could not consider his luck’ throughout his heyday

Mick Hucknall has responded to the hearsay he is slept with over 3,000 ladies.

The Merely Purple frontman, 65, as soon as revealed that he had “three lovers a day” in the course of the peak of his fame. The music legend has had a string of high-profile relationships, together with the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, ex-EastEnders star Martine McCutcheon and supermodel Helena Christensen.

In 2010, he instructed The Guardian: “Between 1985 and 1987, I might sleep with about three ladies a day. I by no means stated no.” However now, Mick has addressed the wild love life claims and admitted he was: “A child in a candy store who could not consider his luck.”

He additionally opened up about life along with his spouse, artwork supplier Gabriella Wesberry, joking that he feels sorry for her. He instructed The Sunday Occasions Journal: “My poor spouse. How she’s caught with me, I do not know.”

Hucknall and Wesberry married in 2010, having first met within the 90s. He additionally addressed MeToo motion and whether or not he was involved about any of his former flames, telling the outlet: “It was at all times mutual.

“You need to be enticing and, in my psychology, imposing your self on somebody is the exact opposite of being desired. Anyone wanting you is what makes me tick. Imposing myself on someone doesn’t make me tick in any respect.”

Mick hasn’t spoken to his daughter, Romy, 18, concerning the love life rumours. “It is so far up to now,” he stated, earlier than including that whereas he is not non secular, he takes his marital vows extraordinarily significantly and has no intentions of being untrue.

Mick stated in 2023, to The Solar: “I used to be simply touring the world and being ­single, being a playboy, being a bachelor – I did not actually know what I used to be doing”. He joked that he was “simply having a great time.”

He added: “I believe in your life it is a good factor to have dimension, to have performed numerous ­various things, to have numerous completely different experiences.”

In 2006, Mick stated of his sexual historical past: “No, I am responsible. It is life’s expertise. I believe it is looking for approval. Love me, admire me – one thing like that.

“Generally, although, it often needed to do with being drunk. You go into any metropolis centre on a Friday or Saturday evening and also you see it occurring everywhere in the world. There’s nothing significantly uncommon about it however due to being well-known it will get reported, it will get blown up. In the end, it does not make you cheerful.”

Mick’s high-profile relationships embody Catherine Zeta-Jones in 1998, a really brief relationship with telly star Ulrika Jonsson, in addition to Melanie Sykes, Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend, Woman Victoria Hervey and Steffi Graf.

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