Stuart Cable - Personal Life

Personal Life

Cable owned a flat in Cardiff Bay, and partly lived in Abernant, before moving to the neighbouring village of Llwydcoed in a Tudor-style house. In 1999, he married Nicola in Bridgend. Their son, Cian Damen, was born in 2001 in Cardiff. In 2003, he had an affair with Welsh TV presenter Lisa Rogers. Cable claims that it was differences between Rogers and Kelly Jones' partner Becka (Rebecca Walters) at the time which violently came to a head publicly at a restaurant in Paris, eventually leading to his dismissal after he made a sarcastic joke about the incident the following day. Around 2003, Cable and his wife divorced. In April 2009 he had spoken out about being sacked from the Stereophonics and describes the moment they played in front of 80,000 people in Cardiff without him as "the darkest time of my entire life". He had said, "Until that point in my life, I had never ever considered something as stupid as suicide, but that night I could really understand why people get depressed enough to do it." He patched up his differences with Kelly Jones in 2009 and at the time of his death they were in contact again.

Cable released his autobiography in April 2009, entitled Demons and Cocktails - My Life with the Stereophonics. In his autobiography, he stated that he had been a hard drinker and drug user, particularly whisky and cocaine. Cable professed that fame had "turned him into a coke taking zombie" and that the other Stereophonics members strongly disapproved of it. According to Cable, who vowed to quit drink and drugs, "I moved back to my old village because if I didn't I'd have probably ended up dead or round the bend - or both". Cable claims that he was a close friend of Dirty Sanchez star Matthew Pritchard, with whom he would enjoy wild parties and drugs. Like former Stereophonics bandmate Richard Jones, Cable was also a motorcycle enthusiast and according to a neighbour was planning on a motorcycle tour of Spain.

Cable was outspoken about child safety and backed a campaign named 'Stuart’s Campaign', established following the death of Cowbridge schoolboy Stuart Cunningham-Jones, who died aboard a school bus. He had said, "In this day and age every child should have the right to travel to and from school in absolute safety."