Kian Egan has revealed he asked his Westlife bandmates to reconsider splitting – but they snubbed his pleas.
They went their separate ways in 2012 after 14 years together after cracks appeared in the band.
But Kian admits he would have continued for two more years after seeing the love come back – but Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne and Mark Feehily weren’t interested.
He said: “The last six months of the band were a hoot. We were in the pubs together, drinking together like it was the first time we’d gone on stage.
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“The pressure had seriously been released. I remember one night we were in China, and we were in the Irish pub and we got a cab and it was just the four of us.
“We were all fairly sauced and I remember turning around and going, ‘Lads, seriously, we’re making a huge mistake here’.
“And you could hear the silence. There and then I just knew. So I probably had another year or two in me, I don’t know if the other boys did.
“I think half of us could have given it another year or two but the other half couldn’t. But in hindsight, I feel like it was the right decision.”
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And Kian told the Irishman Abroad podcast that the cracks turned out to be too big to deal with.
He added: “There might have been another year or two in it but the cracks were getting bigger and bigger. In one way, we needed to end exactly when we ended.
“Relationships were spreading. It became very much, show up, do the job and go. The fun had disappeared.
“It’s quite funny — once the decision had been made that it was going to end, the fun all of a sudden reappeared.”
