“I know it’s going to deteriorate into something really, really terrible, but we’re facing it with a sense of dignity. She forgets everything else but not me,” he told The Times. “Alzheimer’s is a wicked, debilitating, slow, deliberate process, but we’re going through that together. When she was diagnosed with her illness, Lydon knew it would be a monumental challenge. That person I love is still there every minute of every day, and that is my life.” “I won’t let anyone mess up with her head,” he told the British Mirror three years ago.

In recent years, Nora suffered from Alzheimer’s and Lydon was her protective and affectionate full-time caregiver. There’s not too much of that going on in the world.” … When I come across something so incredibly original - that’s it - I’m in love with that. I’m a loyalist.” He goes on to describe Nora: “Such an original person. In the 2018 music documentary “The Public Image Is Rotten,” a much younger Lydon reports, “We are very happy. Despite a long list of rotating bandmates and managers, there has been only one woman in Lydon’s orbit. After the implosion of the Sex Pistols, Lydon turned his creative energy to his post-punk band Public Image Ltd. I never expected to feel like that.”ĭespite Johnny’s outrageous public persona, his marriage to Nora never fed salacious headlines. We’d both been told the other was a bad’un. I’ve always loved that woman,” Lydon said of Nora in The Guardian last year. Lydon discussing issues of the heart can still strike old fans as slightly off-kilter - but it’s legit. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have been married for 42 years, while Alice and Sheryl Cooper recently celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary. Public attention to celebrity matrimony is often more focused on prenuptial agreements than on “in sickness and in health.” But there are some hard rock exceptions to the rule.

“We ended up laughing and loving each other.” “The first time I met Nora, everyone told her not to talk to me because I was completely horrible,” Lydon (67) said with a smirk in an interview with Irish TV. In the midst of that era’s mayhem, Lydon fell head over stilettos for Nora Forster, the woman who would capture his heart. “He really doesn’t do that much besides snarl and be hunchbacked it’s the eyes that kill you. “Rotten is perhaps the most captivating performer I’ve ever seen,” reported Charles M. Rolling Stone’s 1977 story on the band began by invoking a biblical notation: “Instead of perfume here will be rottenness” (Isaiah 3:24).

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