Irish music legend Andrea Corr has bravely opened up about her heartbreak at having five miscarriages.
During an emotional interview on The Late Late Show, The Corrs frontwoman said a lot of people can relate to what she has gone through.
She told host Ryan Tubridy: "I've had five miscarriages. And I had two before I was blessed with Jeanie and then Brett, and then I had another three.
"I think the first two were the most difficult, obviously because I didn't know who I'd be blessed with, and I didn't know whether I'd ever become a mother.
"On the first one, the doctor said to me, when we realised that the baby was no more, that very few women go through their reproductive life without a glitch or without something and I've realised since I've spoken about it how true that is.
"It was painful because you've got that hope, you immediately dream of this baby.
"It happens so quickly, it's crazy how our minds think, and our hearts."
Andrea also discussed the tragic death of her brother Gerard, who was tragically killed in a road accident when he was just three years of age, before she and her sister Caroline born.
The 45-year-old admitted that the grief and sense of loss was very apparent during her childhood.
She said: "Now that I am a mother myself, it is unbearable to think of.
"He was three, he was only three. He was a very funny little boy.
"[My parents] couldn't talk about him for more than a couple of minutes before the pain would take over.
"That pain never leaves."
While the mourning was always present in their family, Andrea knew no different because she was born into it.
"When you grow up in a family, you are just in it [the grief] so you are not analysing it and you think it is the same as everywhere.
"I realise his absence was present in everything," she said.
The Louth woman has just released a memoir of her life called "Barefoot Pilgrimage."
