John Lydon’s Twitter account shared the unhappy information on Thursday that the star’s spouse Nora Foster has died on the age of 80.
Nora, a former music promoter, had been battling Alzheimer’s illness for the previous couple of years of her life, with Intercourse Pistols frontman John, 67, appearing as her carer.
Sharing an image of the spouses hugging on his official Twitter account, John’s group wrote: “1/2 Relaxation in Peace Nora Forster. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we share the unhappy information that Nora Forster – John Lydon’s spouse of almost 5 a long time – has handed away. Nora had been dwelling with Alzheimer’s for a number of years. Through which time John had change into her full time carer.
“2/2 Please respect John’s grief and permit him house. Relaxation in Peace Nora. Coronary heart felt condolences to John from Rambo and all at PiL Official.
“Photograph @ Andy Cantillon / JRJL Productions 2010.”
PiL – Public Picture Ltd – is the band John shaped after his time within the Intercourse Pistols in 1978 and John Rambo Stevens is the punk star’s supervisor.
John and Nora, a German publishing heiress, wed in 1979, with the singer-songwriter changing into stepfather to Nora’s daughter, vocalist Ari Up. Ari tragically died in 2010 of breast most cancers on the age of 48.
John has been open about their lives since his late-wife’s Alzheimer’s prognosis, and most not too long ago he and his PiL bandmates submitted a love track devoted to Nora to compete to symbolize Eire within the 2023 Eurovision Music Contest. Nevertheless the monitor, entitled Hawaii, failed in its bid.
