Noel Gallagher discusses shocking divorce from wife Sara MacDonald after 12 years

Noel Gallagher has discussed his shocked divorce from wife Sara MacDonald after 12 years of marriage.

The former Oasis frontman, 55, revealed that the couple were ‘getting tired of each other’, which he says is not unusual for couples in their 50s.

Talking to Ireland Hot Press magazinethe publication reported that Sarah, 51, who he shares with, Donovan, 15, and Sonny, 12, were furious about her husband’s partying.

In the candid interview, Noel said, “It’s not unusual for people to hit 50 and go, well, you know…”

He also seemed to imply his heavy touring schedule and “four years on the road” also contributed to the divorce.

Eg: The former Oasis frontman revealed that the couple were ‘getting tired of each other’, which he says is not unusual for couples in their 50s (pictured together in 2011)

Noel confirmed the relationship collapsed during the lockdown – and his woes were compounded when he caught covid TWICE as it crumbled.

He first shared how he contracted the virus in the same six-month period last year after stating that he refused to wear face masks to protect himself at the height of the pandemic.

He said: ‘I didn’t get Covid until it was gone – and then I got it twice! I thought, ‘I have great antibodies coursing through my veins’, went to Glastonbury last summer where there was a wave of it, caught it and got it again just before Christmas.

“Felt pretty nasty both times, but thankfully no complications.”

He stated in 2020 that he thought the Covid pandemic was a bunch of ‘f*****gb*****ks’ and said he refuses to wear masks on public transport and in shops – calling it a part of an insult to ‘civil liberties’.

And in 2021, he said he only got his first Covid shot after his doctor told him he would be “foolish” not to get the vaccine.

Noel’s new High Flying Birds album Council Skies – which is on its way to the number 1 spot on the UK album charts – was created as his marriage was crumbling and features heartbreak lyrics.

But the singer once said that the benefit of being cooped up with his relationship crumbling around him was that he was able to finish the songs on the record.

All over: He also seemed to imply his heavy touring schedule and ‘four years on the road’ also contributed to the divorce (pictured in 2019)

Tough times: Noel confirmed relationship collapsed during lockdown – and his woes compounded by catching Covid TWICE as it crumbled

He added in a new interview with Ireland’s Hot Press magazine: “Even though I hated lockdown, I had to finish all these songs I had half written and write a bunch of new ones.

“The silver lining for a really dark cloud is that I actually had some free time during Covid.”

Noel also admitted that Council Skies’ Dead To The World ballad was about how he tried to salvage his relationship with Sara.

It features the poignant chorus, “And if you say so, I’ll bend over backwards for love,” and Noel, when asked if it was about Sara, said, “Yeah, that was written during a broken relationship.”

The rocker also said he might produce a full-on breakup record like Bob Dylan’s searingly bitter Blood On The Tracks if it accidentally poured out of him.

When asked if it was in him to use an entire record to cathartically dispel his feelings about breaking up with Sara, he said, “I don’t know.” If I did, it would be by accident. It’s like (Dead To The World) – when I hit the chorus it suggested a mood and it came out.

And Noel said he had enjoyed the time with his sons, which he had with Sara, as well as his daughter Anaïs, 23, with his ex-wife Meg Matthews, 57, by taking them to gigs, including one of Bono’s.

Gallagher met his second wife, a Scottish publicist, at Ibiza nightclub Space in 2000, a year before his divorce from first wife Meg Matthews – the mother of his eldest child.

Old times: Gallagher with younger brother Liam at the height of their Oasis infamy in 1995. Fans are still clamoring for a reunion some 14 years after their acrimonious split

The former couple were notorious for their partying lifestyle at the height of Brit Pop in the mid-90s, as they indulged in rowdy nights with North London’s infamous Primrose Hill set, which included supermodel Kate Moss and actress Sadie Frost .

But after their split, it was reported that Gallagher had an affair with MacDonald during his first marriage – a claim they both denied.

The couple married at the Lime Wood Hotel in the New Forest in 2011 in a £60,000 ceremony with guests including Russell Brand, but younger brother and former bandmate Liam said he wasn’t invited.

“He goes on about how he wasn’t invited to my wedding. There was no one at my wedding except Nic’s [ex-wife Nicole Appleton] mom and my mom. Get over it, mate. I wasn’t invited to his wedding,” Liam told the Chicago Sun Times.

Liam doesn’t get along with MacDonald and has had a slew of public arguments with the PR manager in the past.

He even hinted that she was the reason there wouldn’t be an Oasis reunion, with Gallagher furious at Liam’s brutal public criticism of his wife.

The brothers themselves have had little contact for the past ten years, after Gallagher left the band in 2009.