Darragh Nolan

For all the world it did, yeah, no.

He was very open in interviews that he did over the years about his home life, about how much he enjoyed getting to help Tina raise the children that she'd had from her previous marriage, that it was a loving relationship, a very happy relationship.

He talked at various points about how not only she had helped him in his personal life and that the marriage had been so loving and successful for the both of them, but also that she had helped him so much in his career too.

She was his manager up until the separation last year.

And that not only...

the marriage being good for them but also without her his career wouldn't have nearly reached the level that it ended up in his eyes and that was reciprocated by her in interviews as well.

She would talk about how loving he was, what a decent person he was and

Again, going back to that kind of slow burn at the start of the relationship, she would talk about the relationship is still developing in little different ways over time.

And she'd said that as recently as an interview she gave in the Sunday Independent in 2017.

So for all the world, yeah, it looked like that Tommy Fleming and Tina Mitchell were very much a happy married couple.

Yeah, he said he was living a lie and then went on to say that he was now living his truth.

And what he meant by that was that he is a gay man.

And that was something that he shared publicly for the very first time in that radio interview.

And then he went into detail about his side of the story when it came to his separation from Tina, saying that... For at least 10, 13 years of marriage, we were very happy.

And he reflected as well about... I suppose the shame that he felt about being gay, that he looked back on the Ireland of the 80s and the 90s, the Ireland that he grew up in, that it was a different country, that homosexuality was deemed a crime up until 1993, that gay marriage wasn't legal, and that he felt that he couldn't disclose that publicly.

And...

Going on then to talk about his relationship with Tina and it was put to him, did he ever tell her that he was gay?

And what he said was that at the very beginning of their relationship, he had a conversation with her and said, I'm bisexual.

Yeah, very much so, yeah.

So he shared that he had been undergoing treatment at St.