“Not being loved and not being able to love.” That is the biggest fear of Liam Gallagher, former vocalist of Oasis, according to stated Gallagher himself in an interview in 2020. A confession whose vulnerability clashes with the insolent and rude character that the Manchester singer has shown and, above all, with a sentimental trajectory marked by infidelities, absences and poorly matched marriages. At 51, Gallagher seems willing to make amends for the sins of his prolonged youth both in terms of health – he suffers from arthritis, psoriasis and an autoimmune disease that have made him reduce the consumption of certain substances – and sentimentally, restoring or weaving paternal ties with his extensive offspring for the first time. Regarding the fraternal aspect, concerning his reconciliation with his brother Noel and the return of Oasis to the stage 15 years after its dissolution, nothing is yet known.
“I’ve been a bit of a shitty husband and that’s affected my children, and I regret that,” he confessed in the documentary. As It Wasreleased in 2019. Gallagher has four children from four different relationships. He has not yet met the youngest in person. Gemma, 11, was born to his affair with American journalist Liza Ghorbani. “I wish the girl in New York all the best,” she said, referring to the girl. “If they ever need anything, just give me a call.” declared The news of Ghorbani’s pregnancy was the trigger for the break-up of his marriage to Nicole Appleton, a member of the pop group All Saints, with whom he had a crush in 2000. As revealed in the trial for the formalisation of their divorce, Gallagher told her about the adultery just hours before the news hit the press and, boasting of his lack of tact, he did so by telephone, while Appleton was enjoying a holiday in July 2013. He has confessed that his biggest regret in life is “having broken up marriages and being a fucking idiot with children”.
It wasn’t the first time the rock star had an affair. Just a few months after saying ‘I do’ to Appleton on Valentine’s Day 2008, Gallagher had another extramarital encounter. This time it was with singer Lily Allen, in mid-flight, as they were both heading to the Japanese Fuji Rock festival. Liam begged her not to say anything about their encounters because he was married, but the rumours were so strong that he called the singer to beg her to speak to his wife and deny everything. “When he informed me of their existence I was horrified, even though I wasn’t the one who was married or the one who was being unfaithful,” she revealed in her memoir. My Thoughts ExactlyAppleton and Gallagher have one son together, Gene, 23, who is currently on his first UK tour with his band Villanelle after supporting his father on his last tour.
Liam Gallagher has two more children, also the product of underhanded relationships. The eldest is Molly Moorish, 26, who studied Sociology and Politics and works as an ambassador for Centrepoint, a charity that helps homeless people. The singer met her for the first time in 2018. They met in a pub, got drunk and, according to the father, “there were tears and everything.” Afterwards, they went with the artist’s two other sons to a Rolling Stones concert and, a few days later, on a private jet to Ibiza. Gallagher was so pleased with their connection that he even dedicated a song to herNow That I’ve Found You. Molly assured The Times She did not hold any resentment towards her absent father: “Everything happened the way it was supposed to happen. We managed to get through it and I am happy to have him now.”
Molly’s birth in the spring of 1998 was a scandal that made rivers of ink flow in the tabloids. “The week after he married me, he went to Los Angeles and slept with this girl, Lisa Moorish, and got her pregnant. What a son of a bitch,” Patsy Kensit, Gallagher’s first wife, told the press. The actress of films such as Lethal Weapon 2model and singer of the group Eighth Wonder was one of the most famous women in the United Kingdom, a sexual icon whose poster decorated the walls of young people of the time, and the couple she formed with the man from Manchester became the face of the so-called Cool Britannia, a time of hope when London was once again the capital of the pop world after years of Thatcherite obscurity. From Princess Diana to the Beckhams, via Alexander McQueen, Damon Albarn, Tony Blair, Jarvis Cocker, the films of Hugh Grant and the works of Damien Hirst. But it was Liam and Patsy, Patsy and Liam, who were chosen by the American edition of the magazine Vanity Fair to represent, lying in bed with sheets printed with the Union Jack, the phenomenon that would dominate the rest of the world during the nineties.
It was Lisa Moorish, a close friend of Kensit, who first introduced them. Fleeing from the press, and after a couple of failed attempts, they married in absolute privacy. Alone, at half past eight in the morning, at the Westminster registry office. Their relationship, beyond the birth of Molly, was plagued by scandals. “I cried every day of my marriage,” Kensit would admit, who was a daily witness to the volatile character and fits of rage of a Gallagher mired in addictions. Liam was unfaithful to her day in and day out, but admitted She regretted breaking off their relationship for that reason: “I had heard all the rumours about what a womaniser he was and I knew what was going on behind my back. Liam was very young and saw all the temptations around him. I wasn’t naive about how toxic that could be.” The fruit of their years of romance was Lennon, who at 23 years old has taken advantage of his illustrious surname and astonishing physical resemblance to his father to make a name for himself as a model on the international catwalk. He has walked the runway for brands such as Saint Laurent and Lanvin and is the face of Barbour.
With the exception of Gemma, the relationship between the rest of the siblings seems surprisingly harmonious and close considering their father’s history. They enjoy holidays together and even posed with Liam in a photo shoot for The Times on the occasion of Father’s Day in 2019. The singer has no qualms about confirming that he accepted the photo shoot because “a bit of good press was good for him” and the proposal came from his current partner, whom he describes as his “saviour”. Debbie Gwyther, the artist’s producer and manager, has shared her life with the vocalist since 2013, when the cameras caught them kissing on the island of Ibiza. Six years later, on a trip along the Amalfi coast, they promised to walk down the aisle, but what would have been Gallagher’s third wedding was postponed to 2023 due to his hip problems.
Despite the stability they boast these days, a while ago they also made headlines for an alleged strangulation by Liam to Debbie in a London nightclub, an assault denied by the artist on his social networks and which did not go beyond the realm of media gossip. Although the yellow tabloids call their relationship “toxic”, Gwyther has always shown herself to be a firm defender of her fiancé’s good heart. In the documentary about her figure, she stated that “The Liam I know and the Liam in the public eye are totally different. Sometimes he drinks too much, he is impulsive and foul-mouthed, but that does not mean he cannot be tender at the same time. He is very responsible with his family. The way he behaves with me, with my relatives, with his children and with his mother is the reason why I love him.”
