Who is Shane MacGowan’s wife? Everything you need to know about Victoria Mary Clarke
- Everything you need to know about Shane MacGowman’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke
The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan has returned home after being released from hospital amid a battle with a brain condition.
His wife Victoria Mary Clarke, who has been posting updates on social media, shared a touching photo of the singer beaming in his hospital bed, alongside the news that he has left St Vincent’s Hospital.
Victoria told fans on X, formerly known as Twitter: ‘Shane got out of hospital!
‘We are deeply and eternally grateful to all the doctors, nurses and staff at St. Vincent’s, it’s the best!’
Who exactly is Shane MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke? How long has the couple been together? Read on below for everything you need to know about her.
Pogues singer MacGowan first met Clarke when she was just 16 years old and he was 24, but it would be another four years before they started dating.
It was a long courtship for the couple who only got engaged in 2007 and were not married for another eleven years.
Home: Shane MacGowan (centre) returned home after being discharged from hospital amid a battle with a brain condition, as his wife Victoria shared a photo of him in his hospital bed
Who is Victoria Mary Clarke?
Victoria Mary Clarke, 57, is an Irish journalist who has written for numerous publications in Britain and Ireland.
After her mother became pregnant with her at the age of 19, Victoria was abandoned by her father as a young baby and grew up in West Cork, in the Republic of Ireland.
After learning to read cereal boxes at the age of two, she has had an impressive career as a journalist, writing for The Guardian, The Sunday Independent and Paris Vogue.
She has also written several books, including a biography of her husband that they wrote together entitled A Drink With Shane MacGowan.
Another of her works, Angel In Disguise?, documents her experiences with her alleged conversations with angels after she said they supposedly helped her after a nervous breakdown.
How long have Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke been together?
Pogues singer MacGowan first met Clarke when she was just 16 years old and he was 24, but it would be another four years before they started dating.
To write The guard, she said, “Once we were together, I felt my own life subsumed his. This was a welcome feeling for me, because I would rather live someone else’s life.
‘I immediately took responsibility for his moods and problems and devoted myself to solving them and to being both his personal assistant and his lover. I adored him in every way possible.
“In return, I felt he gave me a sense of purpose, but also a sense of being wanted. I belonged to him in a way that I never really belonged to my family.”
It was a long courtship for the couple who only got engaged in 2007 and were not married for another eleven years.
Victoria has written several books, including a biography of her husband that they wrote together, entitled A Drink With Shane MacGowan. In the photo: the couple shares a kiss
Shane and Victoria married in November 2018 in a ceremony at the City Hall of Copenhagen, Denmark, with Johnny Depp, Shane’s longtime boyfriend, playing guitar during the low-key ceremony.
In 2016, Victoria said Shane was sober for the first time in years, explaining how his drinking problem stemmed from years of “singing in bars and clubs where people go to drink and have fun.”
She claimed his spiral into alcohol addiction was the result of the introduction of hard drugs such as heroin.
The journalist said the singer got sober after a lengthy hospital stay when he was suffering from pneumonia and a hip injury, and that Shane continued his journey to sobriety when he returned home.