Ian Wright Wife: Who Is the Former Footballer Married To?
By Nancy Hargreaves
4 years ago
“My missus didn’t know anything about football. I met her in a pub in Notting Hill, it was the biggest kind of mugging off in respect of meeting someone. I’m not saying I’m Brad Pitt but she mugged me off so beautifully I knew she was the one.”
“We went everywhere together, shared everything and led an idyllic life. Ian was fulfilling his dream of being a professional footballer with Arsenal, while I loved being a stay-at-home mum to our three-year-old son Stacey. To me he was perfect - kind, generous and the most devoted husband you could ever ask for.”
“Perhaps naively, I also thought he would never do it again. Sadly, that wasn't the case.”
“I'll make no secret of the fact our marriage was already in trouble - like I said, can any couple really survive such a public betrayal - but I was devastated to find out this time, his fling had more serious repercussions. This time there was no recovery.”
“It was while I was playing for Arsenal and everything was going so well for me that I got a bit carried away with myself because of all the attention I was getting, the money I was being paid and having so many people all over me.”
“I got caught up in all of that and cheated on first wife, Debbie, which destroyed my marriage. That was a really horrible period.”
"If there’s ever been a time in my life I wish I could change, that would be it."
“Nancy went to introduce herself and she totally blanked her in front of people, saying something about, ‘I have to be true to my niece and nephew.'"
“This happened when I was in the green room. When I went over to her I could feel the anger from my toes. I said, ‘As long as we live I don’t want to ever see you again. The only time I will speak to you is when you apologise to her.”
“And she said, ‘I am not apologising to anyone.’ So I said, ‘That is good because I will never have to see you again.”
“Nancy’s the perfect woman and I can’t stand to be apart from her and our daughters.”
“My love for them is unconditional and my upbringing means I have a lot of love to give now.”
"I’ve got eight kids with four women. Two I married, two I didn’t. Sharon (Phillips) is mum to my eldest boys, Shaun and Bradley Wright-Phillips. My third son is Brett. Then Deborah and I got married in 1993 and we have a son, Stacey, and a daughter, Bobbi." He went on: "My daughter Coco was born in 2006 and I support her but play no other part in her or her mother’s life. And I married Nancy in 2011, and we have two daughters, Lola and Roxanne."
“I don’t think I have ever been in a situation where I have been that isolated from the game in my life. ‘I am also going to miss my family. I speak to my missus every day and it’s going to be a test.”