S Club 7’s Hannah was left heartbroken and unable to process it when she discovered Paul Cattermole had died – just months before the band was due to reunite onstage.
Admitting in a new interview that she’d been “completely in love” with her co-star, whom she’d first met as a teenager at stage school, she told of how devastated the news had left her.
The day after his death, she woke up to a devastating text message from the S Club tour manager warning her that she had “very sad and tragic news to share”.
Frantic about the cryptic-sounding message, she instantly called the number, only to be told that the former love of her life had died.
“I couldn’t make sense of it and had so many questions. I was trying to process it but I just couldn’t,” she explained to the Sun.
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“He was my first true love… I was completely in love with him – probably more so than he with me.”
Hannah added that their passion had grown out of a “solid friendship”, which first began when they studied together at London’s National Youth Music Theatre in London as love-struck teens.
They didn’t instantly click, but Hannah found herself becoming increasingly jealous when she caught sight of him flirting with anyone else.
When they eventually got together, they felt compelled to keep their romance a secret and would sneak surreptitiously in and out of each other’s houses to avoid detection.
Paul finally left S Club 7 in 2002, citing “creative differences” and although his romantic relationship with Hannah survived for four years following his departure, they ultimately split up.
In 2015, they briefly reunited, but then parted again, with Hannah subsequently branding him “broke and desperate” in a Twitter rant.
However, the pair made up before his death and had been looking forward to embarking on a reunion tour together this October.
Reflecting on why they had split the first time around, she explained that Paul had “never wanted fame” and that, although she enjoyed a “fast-paced” showbiz lifestyle, he had become “increasingly unhappy”.
She added: “Paul was more of a deep thinker, and probably a lot more philosophical than I am.”
Later in life, the introverted star turned away from fame altogether and reinvented himself as a psychic and tarot card reader, although he did still flirt with TV notoriety on the show First Dates Hotel.
During the show, he heartbreakingly admitted he’d have given up everything he’d achieved in the group if it would have given him the opportunity of lasting love.
“Fame isn’t the route to happiness, money isn’t the route to happiness, being with somebody you love is. Would I have traded the success and the number ones for one true love? I think [so], yeah,” he declared.
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