Former Westlife star Markus Feehily says that writing songs for debut solo album Fire helped him get over his break-up with long time boyfriend Kevin McDaid.
Speaking to RTÉ TEN about his new song Butterfly, which charts the end of the relationship, he said: "That's a pretty dark song. It's me saying `how the hell did that just happen?' Everything was perfectly fine and all of a sudden it's all over now."
He added that writing the songs for Fire helped mend his broken heart after his seven-year romance with McDaid ended two years ago. "Every song on the album is about all the different aspects of all the different emotions I went through since Westlife finished," he said.
"Everything was overshadowed by a big relationship break-up and then I was single for a while and then I was back in a relationship in the end and I don't know which of the two was the worst - the break-up of the band or being single and being out there in a very cut throat world.
"This was my first time ever to be single so that was a bit weird. To be in my early thirties and to be single and to be out . . . any time I was single before that I wasn't out as being gay."
Markus appears on The Ray D'Arcy Show on RTÉ on Saturday night.
Click on the video link to watch TEN's full interview with Markus Feehily.
