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Rod Stewart moved his wife Penny Lancaster to tears as he revealed how one of his friends tried to prevent them from dating until he was 'fully healed.'

The couple, who have been together for more than two decades and share two children together, first met when Penny, 54, was a student at Barking College and he was performing.

It followed his bitter divorce from model Rachel Hunter. Rod has said his second wife Rachel's decision to leave him had left him in physical pain and he finally knew what it meant to have a broken heart.

And Rod said that after he first met his future spouse Penny, close friend Carmine Appice didn't pass on her number as he felt he felt he wasn't in the right place emotionally to be dating again, the Mirror reports.

Rocker Rod, 80, recounted the

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