Former Catatonia frontwoman Cerys Matthews has revealed that she has divorced her American music producer husband and moved back from the US to set up home near her family in Pembrokeshire in Wales. Cerys discussed her personal situation in an interview with the Independent On Sunday while promoting new album 'Awyren = Airplane', her first Welsh language album, which is released by My Kung Fu this week.
Matthews had been dividing her time between Tennessee and Wales, but revealed that she would be based over here permanently in the Independent interview. Asked if her husband would join her, she said: "Well... I am now divorced. I've not done an interview about it. What am I meant to say? I was always going to come back. It's a long way from Pembrokeshire to Nashville. The pull for me was my children and the freedom they have here. In Nashville I was always an immigrant with two young children. I really did love it, I was at home there as an adult. I would have stayed, but I didn't feel ready for my children to not have the same background as me. This place also feels a long way from everything. I like that, for children. I don't want to rush them into growing old. I want to protect their wildness and innocence and safety as long as I can".
Commenting on her decision to record an album entirely in Welsh, she continued: "I did it for the love of the language, and the sounds of the language."