Corrie’s Sue Cleaver admits ‘it hasn’t been easy’ as she shares marriage struggle
Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver gave a candid view into her marriage during an instalment of Loose Women.
Corrie’s Sue Cleaver admits ‘it hasn’t been easy’ as she shares struggles of marriage
On Monday’s instalment of Loose Women, the panel were discussing how they know when they’re a priority to their partner.
During their chat, Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver made a confession about her second marriage to Brian Owen.
Highlighting that relationships evolve, she commented: “Where, I think, they all go wrong is when we stop considering what the other person’s style is and what the other person needs within it.
“There are times when we grow apart. I’ve always said, and some people don’t like it, that people used to die in the olden days when they were like 45.
“So, it made sense for a couple to stay together and nurture and raise their children, but we’re now living to 85.”
Sure replied: “You know what we do, it hasn’t always been easy between me and Brian, it took us a long time to figure it out. The way we realised it, it was just like, let each other be who they are.”
The ITV star told the panel she and her husband don’t have certain expectations of one another.
She added: “We let each other have their own independence, their own space. We also have our group of friends that we’re very much together with. But, at the beginning, it was almost like we pushed it on each other.”
Brian is Sue’s second husband who she met on the set of Coronation Street as he worked as a a lighting technician for ITV.
However, before then, the actress was a familiar face to soap fans as she was once married to actor James Quinn from 1993 to 2003.
James has appeared in various roles in the ITV soap, most recently playing DS Willets, on-and-off from 2013 to 2021.
The pair welcomed a son together in 1998 called Elliot, who she often mentions on Loose Women.
It seems as though the pair are on good terms as James told Manchester Evening News in 2009: “Although we got divorced, we get on well, but we haven’t acted together on stage since we first met in a play in 1991.”