Phil Collins' ex-wife Orianne Cevey has said that she may re-marry the singer after admitting that their separation was "the wrong decision."
The pair married in Switzerland in 1999 and had two sons together. They separated in 2006 and were divorced two years later in a €33m settlement that was the largest divorce pay-out in UK showbiz history.
Speaking to Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick on Sunday, 43-year-old Cevey said: “Our separation was the wrong decision. I now call Phil my husband again. We are so close that it does not actually make a difference if we are married or not, but we are determined to get married for a second time one day.”
65-year-old Collins has three other children by his previous two marriages. After the couple divorced, Swiss-born Cevey wed the investment banker Charles Mejjati, with whom she has another son.
She moved from Switzerland to Miami, and Collins has since himself moved from Switzerland to Miami. Meanwhile, Cevey has reportedly filed for divorce from Mejjati.
Collins, who began to drink heavily after the couple's estrangement, recently told The Guardian that the divorce may have been an error. “We realised we missed each other," said the musician. "We made a mistake and we’ve fixed it.”
Cevey told SonntagsBlick that she had never completely stopped loving Collins.
“We were always very close, because of the children,” she said. Cevey also revealed that “just last year, I realised that he is indeed the man of my life.”
She added that Collins had assisted her with her recovery from partial paralysis after an operation 18 months ago for a slipped disc in her neck.
“I spent four months in hospital, and he took wonderful care of Matthew and Nicholas . . . that was a great relief to me.”
