Rod Stewart’ s wife, Penny Lancaster, recently made a shocking revelation that she and the rock icon nearly split ways after nearly 20 years of marriage.

The 54-year-old former model opened up about the emotional tension surrounding why she nearly filed for divorce.

“Yes [I would have left him]. And that would have been very hard,” Lancaster admitted to the UK magazine Saga . “But we just went with the flow.”

Lancaster revealed that they almost went their separate ways due to Stewart’s reluctance to expand their family. Four years into the marriage, the couple welcomed their first child through IVF treatment after they struggled to conceive naturally.

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