Margo O’Donnell talks of the time her pride was hurt when her boyfriend jilted her calling off their wedding!

Published on April 28, 2020 | Published By: shahid | In Married , Relationship

Country music singer Margo O’Donnell has opened up about her heartbreak when a boyfriend rejected her and called off their wedding.
And her self-esteem was deeply hurt, she said.

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Margo O’Donnell abd her heartbreak

The famous country singer Margo O’Donnell was dating a man to whom she was supposed to get married. She even purchased a house in Dublin but that boyfriend jilted her.

She was left heartbroken. Additionally, they had to call off their wedding.

Margo then turned to painkillers and drugs for solace. Furthermore, she also indulged in heavy drinking. For almost one decade she was addicted to these and had to seek medical help to come out of it.

Margo said:

“It was a time in my life when I needed to get things together. I had just come out of a broken relationship and to be honest with you, if I wasn’t so modest, he left me. He jilted me.
“My pride was hurt. You know, how could this fella do this to me?”

Additionally, she continued:

“Then you know, the wedding fell through so I just probably finding a place to find myself.”

More about Margo’s heartbreak

Margo O’Donnell panicked after the split. She told on RTÉ Keys to my Life:

“I would say, simply say, yes I did.I panic bought this house. And when I came here I was broken hearted, or I thought I was. Another monkey had let me down.”

She felt that she was safe inside the four walls of the newly purchased house. Therefore, she hid behind its walls as it protected her and she tried fighting her personal demons.

Talking about her drinking habit, Margo opened up:

“When I started drinking in 1974 and from the very first drink, I was an alcoholic.
“I had a fear of the stage and I thought I had found my crutch.
“There was always a reason for lifting the glass until there was no reason and it was either the glass or me.”

She continued:

“It was a very lonely, stupid period.I was blaming dad for having left me, because I did promise my father that day that he died that I would look after my mother and my siblings.
“I destroyed myself by trying to carry that promise.”

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Margo takes rehab

Margo sought expert medical help and went into rehab. It helped her overcome her personal problems. Her father’s sudden death at the age of 49 also left her devastated.

Recalling that time, Margo said:

He wasn’t ill, he wasn’t ill at all. One particular evening, he said ‘Margaret I’m tired’.

“He said to me ‘Kneel down there beside me’, he was lying in the bed and he said, ‘I want you to promise that you will look after mam and the wee ones’
“That was the day my life changed forever.
“And it was here that I first walked out that door and got into the bandwagon with the Keynotes when I wasn’t just quite 13.”

She did not like the limelight but was pushed into it in order to support her family in Donegal. Her dreams of a settled married life were shattered.

She helped her brother Daniel enter the music industry. She had other siblings namely John, Kathleen, and James. Margo is now 68.

Source: RSVP Live

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