Pattie Boyd Attends Ex-Husband Eric Clapton’s Concert 3 Decades After Their Split 

Clapton fell for Boyd while she was still married to Harrison, sparking an infamous pop culture love triangle.

Boyd and Clapton exchanged vows in 1979 and were married until 1989, with the relationship marred by a string of infidelities, unsuccessful IVF attempts and the singer’s battle with alcoholism.

The model later reflected on her marriages to Clapton and Harrison via an essay written for The Guardian decades after the respective relationships ended.

“I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It’s really sad. It’s all about them. It’s not about their wives at all. With George and Eric it was simply because they had women telling them how wonderful they were all the time. Women make the mistake of thinking that sex is love. Men are able to be a bit more detached about it,” Boyd wrote for The Guardian in November 2008.

She continued, “I read Eric’s autobiography and his description of our marriage. His reflection of it is much colder than I believed he felt at the time. I fell into his seductive trap and I believed it, whereas reading his book it seemed like he had forgotten how he was when we were together. Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life. I wasn’t very happy with his version of events.”