Martin Kemp opens up about his wife’s struggle with endometriosis

Martin Kemp opens up about his wife’s struggle with endometriosis.Credit: ITV

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00:00What is the secret to 40 years of marriage? Who knows? Who knows?

00:04But there is a certain bedrock to a relationship, and that is called friendship.

00:11And love will only come out of that if you look after that friendship.

00:16You know, Shirley's everything for me.

00:18Everything that I do in my life, I do it for her.

00:23I'll tell you something weird, though, was that before that,

00:26Shirley was trying to get pregnant for about a couple of years before we get married, right?

00:31It wasn't happening because she had endometriosis.

00:34So everything was blocked up, she was in pain all the time,

00:38and she couldn't get pregnant.

00:41Then on the night we got married, kaboom.

00:45Really?

00:46Got pregnant, yeah.

00:47Oh!

00:48Yeah.

00:48Meant to be.

00:49The night we got married.

00:50Yeah.

00:51Wow.

00:52Shirley went for everything.

00:53She even went as far as, we were sitting in Shirley's mum's living room one day,

00:58and right out of the blue, Shirley's mum came out with,

01:02now have you tried the wheelbarrow?

01:04Oh!

01:05Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!