In his sensational new book Rod: The Autobiography the star describes how Rachel’s decision to leave him threw him into four months of crippling despair, during which he had to seek therapy and lost 5.44kg.

Stewart was a 45-year-old millionaire when they met in 1990, famous for a string of glamorous girlfriends and Seventies pop anthems Maggie May and Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?

But marriage to blonde 21-year-old Hunter transformed the hard-living rocker into a devoted family man. Hunter was too down-to-earth to feel comfortable in the lavish lifestyle of an established global star.

“It wasn’t that she was too young for me. She was quite simply too young: too young to get married, too young to become caught up in another person’s life.” He says she would rather have been ‘in her jeans, eating poached eggs on toast’, like other girls in their 20s.”

What a sweet story. Both Hunter and her kids Renee and Liam are such a big deal as stars and rising stars. It is a timely book from Stewart.

Read on @theSweetSendUp.