Rochelle Humes opens up about her absent dad and how it helped her find love with Marvin
ROCHELLE Humes opens up about her absent dad and how it helped her find love with Marvin.
Rochelle was speaking on the most recent episode of Tolly T on Bumble’s podcast My Love Is… alongside her husband Marvin, who she married in 2012.
Rochelle, 33, and Marvin, 37, both have Jamaican fathers and they were asked if that “helped them to bond.”
TV presenter Rochelle replied: “I think for me I instantly felt a real closeness to Marvin’s dad. We got together and his dad is an incredible dad to him.
“I kind of instantly bonded with him because it was like the dad I never had around if you know what I mean.”
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The pair share three children together, named Alaia-Mai, nine, Valentina, five, and Blake, two.
Rochelle continued: “So we would bond over… he would teach me how to cook and first things first was like ‘right you need to know how to cook.’
“So yeah we definitely bonded over that and I was thankful to take on another family too.”
It was in the same interview that TV favourite Rochelle revealed her shock split from Marvin, which he referred to as “the biggest mistake” he’s ever made.
A year into their relationship, JLS star Marvin decided to cool things off with The Saturdays singer Rochelle.
Marvin said: “We had a little split about a year in. It was my doing.
“You know what the weirdest thing I got cold feet for some reason and just panicked.
“I called it off with Roch and when I did that, I knew that second it was the biggest mistake I’ve made.”
Marvin went on to explain his reasoning behind why he broke up with Rochelle.
He said: “I was in a relationship previously, but what I learned in that relationship was it went on too long and I didn’t have the balls to call it off and I was quite young.
“And it sort of had the reverse effect when I was with Roch, I just panicked and was like, ‘I wanna call it off.’
“When I did it I knew I was making a mistake. Broke Rochelle’s heart.”
During the podcast Rochelle also recalled how it made her feel.
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“I remember coming home from work one day and the way he approached me, I thought someone was either really sick or someone had passed away.
“I remember, I just came out the shower, and he was like, ‘I need to talk to you.’ I was ready to comfort him then box him.
“He was like, ‘I don’t think I want this anymore’, but I still didn’t think he meant us, like genuinely it was the last thing on my brain,” she recalled.
The star gave him what he wanted and they didn’t speak for six weeks – although Marvin did try to contact Rochelle via email.
“Obviously, she didn’t make it easy for me, but I managed to win her back and that’s when I knew I’d be with her for the rest of my life,” Marvin confessed.
