Take That singer Mark Owen was nearly reduced to tears during an interview about his wife.

Last year, the singer admitted having affairs with as many as ten women before he married his girlfriend of five years, Emma Ferguson, in October 2009.

In an interview with Time Out, Owen said the couple were still working to overcome his mistakes and that he had changed his approach to touring following the revelations.

Asked if the tabloid interest around the saga had made him stop, he replied: “They'd already stopped, to be honest. [Goes very quiet] It's difficult to talk about all of this...

“I don't know whether you do understand because I have a wife and two kids and actually it's nobody's f*cking business. My wife will read this interview, and her friends will. And we've dealt with it. I don't want to make her feel sick again, you know?

“Because I did make her feel sick and she's just starting to not feel sick after a year and a half and...”

At this point Owen apparently began to well up, before adding: “I don't want to make her feel sick any more. I feel the most peaceful I have ever felt.”

Owen said he now returned home after his gig to spend time with his wife and two children, and that his family planned to join him on the European leg of Take That's Progress tour this summer.

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