Fiona O’Carroll has announced her divorce from her long-term husband Martin Delany. Fiona O’ Carroll and her co-star husband Martin Delany had played as In-laws in the BBC comedy series, Mrs. Brown’s Boys. The actress shared about her split from her husband in a new interview with RTE Guide explaining, “Myself and Martin met very young. I was 16 and I suppose he’s all I’ve ever known. We wanted different things. I still have a lot of love for him and I only want the best for him and I think he feels the same way about me.”
She further said, “There were no major fights, and nobody else was involved but it was a case of not being on the same page any longer.”
The star also added that she hung on a little bit longer because she herself got hurt a lot due to her parents split and didn’t want her four sons to experience the same pain saying, “For me, as a child, coming from a broken marriage, I didn’t want that for my kids. But having said that, my parents are extremely happy now so sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to happier times and as much as I tried my best to make it work, we tried for years and it just got to that point where we both decided, or I decided, it was time.”
Mrs. Brown’s Boys star Fiona O’ Carroll stated, “I felt that I needed to be a role model for my kids and as much as they weren’t happy about us splitting up, they are OK actually because with myself and Martin, our main focus is the kids and we didn’t actually tell the kids until we were almost a year separated.”
Fiona O'Carroll Married Life With Ex-husband Martin Delany
Fiona O'Carroll and her ex-husband, Martin Delany, first met when they were 16 years old and took their love from childhood sweethearts to an on-screen couple to a real-life married couple and came to end their long-term relationship. The two got married in 2006 having close friends and families attend their wedding.
The couple shares four sons together and loves them very much. They are Felix, aged 13, Issac, aged 7, Eli, aged 12, and their youngest Dexter, aged 6. Fiona has shared that her boys have high IQs and have difficulty interpreting social cues as they are on the autism spectrum. They reside in Ashbourne, County Meath while Martin lives in Portugal and while he comes to Ireland he lives with them to co-parent.
The actress had shared her fourth pregnancy announcement via her Twitter account in 2016 and posted a snap of an adorable baby scan. She wrote a sweet message, “3 Kids were just not enough apparently! Baby No.4 due September!!”
Net Worth Of Fiona O'Carroll
The Irish actress, Fiona O’Carroll is best known for her role as Maria Brown on Mrs. Brown’s Boys where she worked with her famous father Brendan O’Carroll as well as other family members. The 41-year-old actress comes from Dublin, Ireland.
Mrs. Brown’s Boys will have Christmas specials with two episodes set to air on BBC One on Christmas Day and again on New Year’s Eve at 10:20 pm. The first episode is titled Mammy’s Mechanical Merriment where Brendan O’ Carroll who plays Agnes Brown will become a new member of the church choir in Finglas. According to the teaser, a new character is introduced, Mikey who is set to cause some trouble in the family as they try to warn Granddad of the new shady relative’s bad intentions.
Fiona O’ Carroll was involved in Panorama’s Paradise Papers leak and was accused of diverting more than €2 million into offshore tax avoidance in November 2017 along with other two cast members, her ex-husband, Martin Delany, and Patrick Houlihan.
It was reported that the three of them had their fees transferred from the show to companies in Mauritius before receiving it back in the form of a loan. But, they didn’t do any illegal as they had individual trusts where they had to recommend that their earnings be sent back to the UK in form of loans.
The star’s father, Brendan O’Carroll attacked the BBC’s Panorama and defenced his daughter and son-in-law in a long letter that said: “She is not an oligarch laundering money through Greek banks, nor does she deal in the arms trade, deal drugs or traffic people. She has never committed a crime in her life, she doesn’t have a private yacht or owns a collection of luxury cars. She drives a Kia people carrier which is necessary for four toddlers. There seems to be an effort going on to tarnish the name of the show. But I’m sure the viewers know us better, that we are upfront and always have been.”
He continued, “No-one involved with Mrs. Brown’s Boys has done anything illegal. Everybody that featured in that show did what they did for completely different reasons.”