Ronan Keating, who has been married to his wife Storm since 2015, had a rocky first marriage. He wed his first wife Yvonne Connolly in 1998, but after 12 years and three children together, she discovered he was having an affair.

In 2010, Yvonne, then 46, noticed a shift in their relationship and suspected something was amiss. While preparing for a house move, she stumbled upon something unsettling. Her worst fears were realised when she found Ronan's phone bills and saw calls to an unknown number. Upon dialling the mystery number, she heard the answering machine of Francine Cornell.

At the time, Francine was a 26 year old Boyzone backing dancer who had reportedly been secretly seeing Ronan for seven months.

"She knew something was going on and she got hold of his phone records and called my number," Francine is reported to have told The Sun. "From my voicemail she got my name - that's how she found out. Ronan tried to deny it all at first. He said I was a dancer from the tour and we were just good friends.", reports .

However, Yvonne wasn't convinced and contacted Francine directly. According to Francine, their affair wasn't merely physical; she had fallen for Ronan, and he allegedly declared his love for her as well.

He reportedly called things off with Francine days later to reunite with Yvonne, telling her they could never speak again. Astonishingly, a month later, Yvonne extended an invitation to Francine for a meet-up at a London hotel.

"I just needed answers. I just needed the truth, and I needed to make sure stories collaborated," stated Yvonne during her appearance on Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge. "It was very hard to figure out who you can trust. So this was the answer to it. I was going to meet this girl, a quick 20-minute conversation, and we'd be done and dusted.

"And in fairness to her, she came and met me. But the 20-minute conversation turned into a couple of bottles of wine. After a few hours I realised she needed it as much as I did and I know it sounds very dramatic, but she was as much as a victim as I was. I think we both got something from it.

"When I look back, this is what it all boils down to: it was basically two girls in love with the same boy who over a five-hour conversation realised that that boy was not who we thought he was."

Drama escalated when police arrived at the hotel following Francine's mother's worried call, with Yvonne initially mistaking them for strippers. The ex-model recounted a rather unusual encounter: "There was a knock on the door and I looked out through the peephole and I saw people dressed as policemen. I said to them, 'Tell me you're strippers', to which I was told, 'No we're the Metropolitan Police and we've come to investigate the whereabouts of this girl.'" She expressed her ongoing bemusement with the tale, adding: "To this day, it's like that happened to somebody else, I just think it's the funniest story."

Despite moving into their new residence as planned, Ronan Keating and his wife spent much of the next year trying to repair their relationship. In his 2010 solo album 'Duet', he took the chance in the sleeve notes to extend an apology to his spouse, expressing, "You are the most incredible, inspirational woman I have ever met," and admitting, "For the mistakes I have made in my life, I am sorry. Guess you have to go there to come back. It was a dark place and you were the light to bring me back. I love you."

Unfortunately, they were unable to resolve their differences, announcing their split in April 2012. Yvonne has since found love with cinematographer John Conroy, and Ronan entered a new chapter with TV producer Storm Uechtritz, whom he met on The X Factor Australia. Ronan and Storm celebrated their union in a picturesque Scottish wedding in 2015 and went on to welcome two children: son Cooper, aged seven, and daughter Coco, aged four.

In a 2016 confession about his first marriage's infidelity, the Irish crooner expressed remorse to the Daily Telegraph, stating: "Nobody should have an affair. If you're man enough to have the balls to go home and say, 'Sorry, this isn't working anymore,' that's the ideal situation, isn't it? But we're weak. We don't do that. So yes, I hurt people and I am sorry for that hurt, but the outcome is I found Storm and I'm very grateful. But I'm saying sorry."

Later, he seemingly contradicted his earlier sentiments in a Facebook outburst, clarifying that he harbours no regrets over his divorce as 'it's what [he] wanted'. "There is a lot more to it than an affair and obviously it was broken well before then," his post read.

"Over the years I have kept my mouth shut and taken all the blame for the sake of my kids and my ex wife. But enough now. After 6yrs I draw the line."

He went on to elaborate: "There is a lot more to my situation than people will ever know and that's the way it should be. But there are always two people in a relationship and if it's not working there's more than one good reason for it."

Asserting his refusal to accept distorted truths, he proclaimed, "I will not stand for complete misrepresentation of my truth and my heart anymore. I've done that for way too many years and too long in the tooth for it. Please respect that everyone has moved on and better off. Not once did I say I was apologising to my ex wife or saying sorry for the affair. I said I was sorry for all the hurt it had caused, to which I truly am."