John Prescott's heartfelt apology to wife on TV for 'stupid' two-year affair with diary secretary

The precocious John Prescott made a nationalist apology to his woman Pauline connected Piers Morgan's Life Stories aft his matter with workfellow Tracey Temple was exposed

John Prescott made a heartfelt apology to his woman connected TV for cheating connected her with his erstwhile diary secretary.

The erstwhile lawman premier minister, who was a cardinal fig successful Tony Blair's New Labour cabinet, has passed distant astatine the property of 86 pursuing a conflict with Alzheimer's. The Labour adjacent is survived by his 85-year-old wife, Lady Pauline Prescott, who helium was joined to for 63 years.

Though their matrimony stood the trial of time, it wasn't without its ups and downs. Between 2002 and 2004, John admitted having a matter with workfellow Tracey Temple, a divorcee who was 24 years his junior. The two-year fling began astatine an bureau Christmas enactment pursuing months of flirtation.

Appearing connected Piers Morgan's Life Stories a fewer years aboriginal successful 2011, Lady Prescott revealed successful a clip: "I person not forgiven him and I don’t deliberation I ever will, but I’m not bitter. I deliberation erstwhile you go bitter you scope the constituent of nary return. I accepted it."

John go affectional arsenic the clip was played and went connected to publically apologise to his wife, who sat successful the workplace audience. Calling the matter 'stupid', helium told her: "‘I emotion you similar I’ve ne'er done earlier and I should person done before, a batch more, and been a batch much considerate, and that’s what I’d similar to accidental to Pauline."

Pauline recovered retired astir the matter successful 2006 erstwhile John came location unexpectedly and confessed. Describing the infinitesimal that changed her beingness forever, she recalled successful the clip: "I said, 'What connected world are you doing home?' He said, 'Go upstairs'. I said, 'What’s each this about? You’re not going to divorcement me, are you?' and helium said, 'No, but I deliberation you mightiness beryllium divorcing maine erstwhile you perceive what I’ve got to say.'

"And it was past that helium broke the news. I was wholly devastated. We talked it done and realised what we had, we didn’t privation to lose. There was nary heavy affections determination [with Tracey]. I don’t deliberation I could person coped with that. It was just, arsenic men would say, conscionable a lad thing."

The ex-Hull East MP said helium had "no excuse" for the matter and said: "People speech astir mid-life crises but I deliberation it's portion of an accidental that developed. I don’t privation to formed aspersions connected anybody progressive successful it, it was a anserine act. All I could accidental was atrocious and my woman was prepared to accidental ‘Daft aged bugger’.

"She’s not forgiven me, but we person a fantastic beingness from our household and that's the quality and prime of that pistillate that she tin accidental that. There’s nary excuse, it’s conscionable an accidental that presented successful a constricted mode and that happened. As soon arsenic the property rang maine I didn’t contradict it, I conscionable said 'That’s it' and I had to spell location and explicate it." Host Piers Morgan said: "The heartfelt apology helium [John] made to his tearful woman Pauline was 1 of the astir moving moments I’ve ever witnessed arsenic an interviewer."

Elsewhere successful the interview, John opened up astir his struggles with the eating upset bulimia. Asked however galore times a time helium would beryllium sick erstwhile it was astatine its worst, helium told Piers: "Three, 4 times. My woman utilized to announcement it and she would accidental to me: 'You've got to halt this.' And it doesn’t spell away, you’ve got to larn to subject yourself. My emotion is food and chips and you’ve got to get circular to saying: ‘You can’t person arsenic many, support it down to 1 a day’."

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