09-05-2025
Chesney Hawkes: ‘My wife had no idea who I was when we met'
It was 1995, four years after The One and Only was a hit. I'd been dropped by my label, dumped by my girlfriend and it felt like everyone was taking the piss out of me: the has-been pop star. Most of the money I made from music went into buying a house — my best financial decision ever. But I didn't have enough left for furniture.
Plus, I was getting into drugs. I remember lying on a bare mattress in my room one night and breaking down. It was my lowest moment ever; I was worried it might end with me not finding a way out of the darkness.
Then I met Krissy. My mate was playing an open-mic night at a pub in Mortlake,
