Dominic West still regrets breaking up with the mother of his first child, despite being married to aristocrat Catherine FitzGerald.
West also revealed the reason, recalling that at 28, he wasn’t ready to settle down when he welcomed a daughter with Polly Astor.
Appearing on the Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth podcast, he called the end of the relationship “one of the great sorrows” or “shame.”
‘I think so, yes. I wish my eldest daughter had had some of the benefits or some of the security that my others have had,” he noted.
Explaining the split, he said, “I think I was too young. I was 28.”
He admitted that 28 “isn’t that young, but I had just come out of drama school and was looking at America, and so it actually came at the wrong time. It was very difficult, that ending.”
“It was terrible because it was just me. I wanted to get out. I hurt Polly really bad, but at that time I wasn’t ready to settle down. I was making films everywhere and didn’t want to be tied down. Then I got The wire,he added.
Despite the painful break, The Crown star and Polly have formed a friendly relationship.
“We are good friends now,” he noted.
West and Polly’s daughter, Martha, has also joined his family with Catherine and their children Dora, 19, Senan, 17, Francis, 14, and Christabel, nine.
