Louise Redknapp has revealed she never tried to find her birth father because she feared it would hurt her mother and stepdad’s feelings.
The singer, 50, was raised by her mother Lynne and stepfather Tim Nurding, who had two sons from a previous relationship.
Speaking on the Happy Place podcast, Louise told how it was only as she got older she ever started thinking about who her birh father might be.
She said: ‘The minute my mum met my stepdad and they had two boys, I actually thought, “I’m happy with my lot.”
‘It was only as I got older and had kids that I thought “there is somebody out there that I could actually be walking down the street next to and I wouldn’t know.”‘
But the former Eternal star decided against searching for her birth father because she thought it would hurt Lynne and Tim’s feelings.
Louise Redknapp has revealed she never tried to find her birth father because she feared it would hurt her mother and stepdad’s feelings
The singer, 50, was raised by her mother Lynne (pictured) and stepfather Tim Nurding, who had two sons from a previous relationship
She explained: ‘My loyalty to them outweighed looking for somebody that I don’t know.
‘Even though I think they would have supported me, I’m really good at putting myself in other people’s shoes and I know that would hurt me, even if you don’t want to admit it. So I actually thought, I don’t want to hurt them in anyway.’
Elsewhere during the interview, Louise discussed her divorce from ex-husband Jamie Redknapp, who she split from in 2017 after 19 years of marriage.
The former couple are parents to sons Charlie, 20, and William, 16, who Louise credited with keeping her going during the breakup.
She said: ‘If I didn’t have my kids, I think I would’ve just given up. I think I just knew that my kids were my everything and they needed me.’
The singer admitted that the public scrutiny of her marriage breakdown made the situation even harder to deal with.
She added: ‘But I can honestly say, when you’re going through something so personal in your own turmoil in your own way, but then to get the barrage of judgment and nastiness.
‘I never realised people could be so unkind and say such terrible things. I blew my mind.’
Louise said: ‘The minute my mum met my stepdad and they had two boys, I actually thought, “I’m happy with my lot”‘
Louise credited her sons William, 16, and Charlie, 20, with keeping her going during her divorce from their father Jamie Redknapp
‘I was going through a lot as it was, I was trying to be strong for my kids, whatever had gone on in our life was private – which I do believe that you’re entitled to no matter what.
‘And God, I was such a villain, and I was breaking like I was absolutely breaking.
‘Beyond what I thought it was possible for a human to break and all along I’m still trying to be a mum.
‘And it was just like every time I went out, and I was trying to put a brave face on and do things, like that was wrong if I didn’t.”
‘I felt like everything I did was so wrong.’
The media personality, 50, parted ways from her husband of 20 years following her stint on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016
Louise has not remarried after splitting from Jamie in 2017 – and has been widely praised for her recent honesty about the impact the separation had on her
Viewers were quick to praise Louise, who has not remarried, for her honesty.
They wrote: ‘Refreshingly honest. Louise comes across as such a lovely grounded person, and she’s passing on her wisdom to her kids’;
‘What an extraordinary interview! So honest, humble and sincere. Thank you so very much for sharing Ladies’;
‘Felt like I was sat with 2 girl friends… honest, real and inspiring’;
‘What an amazing interview [and] great to hear you speak your truth.’
Following the split, Jamie found love with Swedish model Frida Andersson and they tied the knot in 2021 before having a son together.
Louise has also found love again and has been in a relationship with businessman Drew Michael since 2023.
Louise and Jamie co-parent their sons by alternating spending time with them when the other is at work.
