You know you’re traditional when you break up with your guy or girl not via text message or phone call or email, but via … fax.
Yup.
This is a thing that almost actually sort of happened, as the rumour goes, and not by some simple-minded charlatan, but by Phil Collins, the legendary singer, himself.
Except that it didn’t.
Addressing his 1994 divorce from then-wife Jill Tavelman, after 10 years of marriage, on ABC News, Collins, 65, dubbed the entire episode “Faxgate.”
“(It) really hurt my career, or my public persona,” he added, denying whether a fax machine ever got in the middle of his marriage. “And it was based on an untruth… So, I just thought it would be an opportunity just to lay it all out, and if I say it didn’t happen, I’m trusting that people will believe me.”
Collins, who has daughter Lily with Tavelman, went on to marry Orianne Cevey, whom he also met in 1994. They split in 2008, when Collins forked over a staggering $46.76 million in their divorce settlement, though they have since reconciled.
He was also previously married to Andrea Bertorelli from 1975 to 1980.
“I am disappointed that I have been married three times,” he writes in his new memoir Not Dead Yet. “I’m even more disappointed that I have been divorced three times… I’m a romantic who believes, hopes that the union of marriage is something to cherish and last.”
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These certainly don’t sound like the words of a man who coldly delivers a break-up via buffering fax machine. One imagines Collins would at least opt for a typewritten letter, delivered by snail mail, perhaps, or a morosely sung telegram, at the very least.
In any case, message and/or fax received.
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