She's been married four times and engaged even more.
But now has admitted she has learnt – the hard way – that ‘you don’t have to marry all your boyfriends.’
Speaking at a preview screening of ’s Pilgrimage: The Road To Holy Island, the actress, 58, said: ‘Historically, I run to love, and I run to being positive and thinking the best of people, and sadly I've been let down a lot over the years.
‘I’ve been let down, I feel like I’ve been hurt over the years. In everything, in life. We all have pain, we all have stuff and mine was, you know, you have to learn from it and not be bitter and look at the sky.’
Best known as one of the defining faces of the Nineties – the former child star, pop singer and wife of Oasis frontman – Patsy has turned to something more introspective.
The BBC’s latest edition of the travel documentary series sees her join a group of celebrities including Diversity star , 37, former Love Islander , 27, Cold Feet actress Hermione Norris, 59, and presenter Jayne Middlemiss, 55, as they embark on a five-day pilgrimage across North Yorkshire, County Durham and Northumberland.
Patsy Kensit has admitted that she's been 'really hurt by people in the past' as she opened up about life and love in a new interview
In the first episode of the programme, Patsy offers 27-year-old Tasha some hard-earned advice about love – telling her: ‘You don’t have to marry all your boyfriends’ – before later admitting to the screening audience at The Garden Cinema in London's Soho that she has experienced the ‘failing of two relationships that were so big and deep and wonderful.’
Describing herself as an ‘à la carte Catholic’ who regularly attends mass, Patsy added: ‘Both of my sons made their first communions and also their confirmations. They sort of walked away from it and now they’ve come back to it.
‘It will give them some comfort, when I move on, I know that the Catholic Church was such a safe place for me after my mother passed away.’
Patsy, who began her career at the age of four, first married in 1988, aged 22, to Big Audio Dynamite musician Dan Donovan, 63. The couple split in 1991.
A year later, she wed Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr, 66, with whom she shares her eldest son James, 32, before divorcing in 1995.
Her third marriage to Oasis singer Liam, 53, saw her become one of the defining faces of the Britpop era. The couple married at Marylebone Town Hall in 1997 and welcomed their son Lennon, 26, before divorcing in 2000.
Her third marriage to Oasis singer Liam, 53, saw her become one of the defining faces of the Britpop era
She later married DJ Jeremy Healy in 2009, but the relationship lasted just 10 months.
The former Holby City star is also said to have accepted a proposal from her property tycoon lover, Patric Cassidy, in 2022 after he got down on one knee during a fish supper, but ended things after it became 'too hard'.
She has also previously revealed she kept a romance with actor Terence Stamp secret for 35 years because she did not want to 'hurt' anyone.
She later said her relationship with the Superman actor – who was 30 years her senior – began in the early 1990s after they worked together on 1991 thriller Prince of Shadows, with the actress calling Stamp a 'total gentleman' as well as 'an amazing and generous lover.’
Pilgrimage: The Road To Holy Island airs on BBC Two on April 5 at 9pm.
