Brian McFadden broke hearts across the nation when he announced in 2004 that he would be leaving Westlife.
He had previously admitted that he hadn’t spoken to his former bandmates in over a decade since departing the band.
Now he has opened up about reconnecting with the Westlife boys, two decades after his decision to pursue a solo career.
The 44-year-old admitted that he has now started speaking with Nicky Byrne.
Speaking to The Sunday Independent, he reflected about his time in the band as well as his regret over leaving.
“I was very tired at the time when I left. I still think back to that,” he told the publication.
“I actually spoke to Nicky Byrne a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about that time. He said to me: ‘Do you reckon if we had taken a break then that maybe you would have stayed?’ I said, ‘Absolutely.’
“If we had taken even three or four months off, my decision probably wouldn’t have happened as quick, because at the time when I left, I just needed a break.”
He went on to say: “I needed to just stop. I remember the day. I remember going, ‘Oh, no.’ We had just worked flat-out for like 300 days straight, finished the tour, blah blah blah, and we were in a recording studio in London.
“Our tour manager came out with an A4 sheet of what we were up to for the next few months. I looked at it. I was looking for a day off and I went through it. F**k. I went down through another month. F**k. My stomach just sank. I thought: ‘No. I can’t.’ It would be like playing a football match for 90 minutes and someone saying: ‘OK, lads, we’re going out for another 90.’”
He explained that they were all “knackered” and all their arguments were “childish bickering”.
But it looks like we could get that five piece Westlife reunion at some point.
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