'He really was the bridge that brought us all together': The Script's Danny O'Donoghue and Glen Power share memories of late bandmate on Late Late Show
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue and Glen Power sat down with Patrick Kielty, sharing memories of their friend and bandmate Mark Sheehan
In an honest Late Late Show interview, The Script's Danny O'Donoghue and Glen Power sat down with Patrick Kielty, sharing memories of their friend and bandmate Mark Sheehan.
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Chatting to Patrick on Friday’s Late Late Show, the two Script stars chatted about Danny's engagement with both speaking of their sobriety.
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Glen Power told Patrick: "He really was the bridge that brought us all together. If me and Dan hadn't met Mark, we'd still be in our bedrooms playing music thinking, it's going to happen someday....
“We're like a transformer, we're all parts of the whole and he put us together and then you realised what this could be".
Danny O'Donoghue added: "I lost my mum and dad on Valentine's Day. I thought that the worst was over, all this stuff that we had built up together as a band, it was life-changing because we were, like Glen said, broken..."
Danny spoke of Christmas 2023 being an epiphany for him. He spoke of his intentions of being sober for Christmas but it didn't go to plan.
"Christmas time leads back into the grief thing. I was getting on the plane and I knew that Dublin was going to be triggering for me and I said I'm going to come back for Christmas and just be sober for the whole Christmas... I pretty much spent the rest of the Christmas drunk.
It was really difficult for me to deal with being back in Dublin and seeing everybody for the first time since Mark passed away... On December 27 I decided enough was enough."
"I've been off the drink now 10 months".
"If you're drinking on grief, you're not getting over the grief, you're just kicking it down the road". Danny O'Donoghue
Glen spoke of getting sober 13 years ago when he was in Australia.
"I was in a hotel room, I was on my own and I was quite afraid because I felt so bad and I thought what would this life be like if I didn't feel sick anymore. I used to wake up hungover, I used to go to bed pretty hungover. I just woke up one day and said let’s give this thing a try".
Glen added: "It's not an Irish problem, it's an internal problem. No matter where I am in the world, there I am, I have to deal with myself."
Glen said that getting sober was the second greatest gift in the world to him, number one is his son. The biggest gift he gave his parents was not phoning them at 3am anymore.
Glen added: "It started really worrying my mum and dad, and I think one of the biggest gifts I gave them was not ringing them at 3am in the morning, out of me mind falling over, and they were hearing things crashing. They were so happy when I stopped".
Patrick congratulated Danny on his engagement and asked how he and Anais met.
Danny explained: 'We met on the street. I was walking down the street in London and I walked past her and I thought I'd left it the amount of time, a gentlemanly amount of time to turn around and check her out and I turned around and she was checking me out as well".
He also spoke of their first date being in a graveyard and that they've been by each other's side ever since.
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