On a recent podcast, Ms Clarke revealed that she had never seen children as a part of her 40-year relationship with her husband, the late Pogues singer. She also told how she had spent much of that time anticipating the death of her husband, as everyone constantly warned her that he did not have long to live. MacGowan ultimately died on November 30, at the age of 65.
Speaking to Caroline Lyons and Sarah Benner on the What A Woman podcast, Ms Clarke, 58, said of having children: "It wasn’t part of our story. I don’t think children would have really survived, honestly I don’t." She also said she had never understood the thinking that everyone wanted to be a parent.
"That would be like you telling me that everybody should want to be a bungee jumper or a racing driver – I can’t understand that," she said. "It doesn’t make sense to me. "I can see how people think that having children is going to give them some kind of continuity, something will live on when they die or maybe somebody will look after them when they’re old.
I can see that because there’s a practical side to it. But I just never..
." After MacGowan died last year, his funeral cortege paraded through the streets of Dublin, before a celebrity-packed Mass was held in Tipperary, attended by a host of famous faces including Johnny Depp, Nick Cave, Bod Geldof and President Michael D Higgins. Ms Clarke explained how she reacted to MacGowan’s death and the aftermath.
"It’s nothing that you could ever reall.
