Andrea Corr has opened up about suffering multiple miscarriages in her first book.
The singer is releasing her debut memoir, where she delves deep into her past.
Speaking about Andrea Corr’s Barefoot Pilgrimage, the mum-of-two said she wanted the book to be honest and true.
“I wrote about my miscarriages,” she revealed to the Sunday Independent.
“I want dignity in my writing. It isn’t salacious; there is personal stuff, but the most intimate is telling the absolute truth about childhood memories.
“I feel very contented, that is the truth. I feel it is how I wanted it to be.
“I feel strangers will love it. It is very much about gratitude, the life I have had and the strangers I have met along the way. It is really about gratitude, it is really about grief, but it is in grief that you find love.”
In an excerpt from the book, Andrea opens up about the pain of having five miscarriages.
“I have miscarried five times,” she writes.
“The first and second the most devastating, as I could not see yet what…who, I would later be blessed with.
“I walked and I prayed. And my mother-in-law, Pat (a blessing in herself) prayed and lit a candle for us every day. Torches and tallow lamps, often to ‘the Little Flower’ St Therese, for whom there is a shrine in the church of St Jean.”
Andrea, 44, is married to stockbroker Brett Desmond and has two children; Jean, 6, and Brett Junior, 4.
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