What We Know About Eric Clapton's Wife

Although their love story started out as something of a fairytale, Eric Clapton’s marriage to Pattie Boyd was filled with challenges and heartbreak. Their relationship, perhaps, was doomed from the moment they set eyes on one another, as Boyd was the wife of Eric’s close friend and fellow rock icon, George Harrison.

Still, that didn’t stop Eric from searching for ways to be with his beloved Pattie, from composing the all-time romantic ballad, ‘Layla,’ to asking the Who guitarist Pete Townshend’s help to busy Harrison while he confessed his feelings to the Beatle’s wife and well… If you liked ‘Love, Actually,’ you’ll love Clapton and Boyd’s story.

However, the couple’s relationship wasn’t smooth sailing even after Boyd left George and married Eric. The guitar icon cheated on Pattie numerous times, even fathering two children with two different women while his wife was seeing doctors and trying her chance with IVF to have her own children.

So, it might be fair to say that Clapton is a bit problematic when it comes to marriages or personal relationships, but only a decade after divorcing Boyd, the guitarist seemed to have found the new love of his life at a party in 1999; and although Eric had been with different people until then, meeting Melia McEnery surely stood out.

Eric met his now-wife, McEnery, at an exclusive party in Los Angeles, and the pair clicked off right away and quickly bonded. However, they preferred to keep their relationship a secret before going public and ultimately tying the knot in 2002 with a private ceremony.

Clapton and Melia have been together ever since, and it seems that Eric finally managed to settle down and enjoy the benefits of marriage. So, let’s learn more about the woman who got Clapton to say, ‘Hey, a healthy marriage isn’t so bad, after all.’

What We Know About Melia McEnery

McEnery was born on February 1, 1976, in Columbia, United States, and little is known about her family other than that her mother is of Korean-English descent while her father has Scottish-English ancestry. Apart from her marriage to her rocker husband, her life has dodged the spotlight since Melia is not one to share all about herself with the public.

She was only in her early 20s when she met Clapton, who was 54 at the time, and it’s no secret that the couple has a vast age gap as Eric is 31 years older. Still, that was no problem for the couple, and after their initial encounter in 1999, they got married after dating for almost three years.

The couple then had three daughters named Julie Rose, born in 2001, Ella May, born in 2003, and Sophie Belle, born in 2005, respectively, and the Clapton family has since then seemed to have settled into a smooth-sailing life as Melia has been seen by Eric’s side through different ceremonies, exclusive parties, and award shows.

Still, it might be safe to say that Mrs. Clapton doesn’t like the spotlight as much as her guitar hero husband does since she prefers to keep a low profile away from the scene and lead a much quieter life with her family while, reportedly, often engaging in philanthropy and charitable work.

So, McEnery’s marriage with Eric has been going strong for two decades, as the rocker finally managed to settle down and have what we might call a traditional family; and as Melia prefers to keep a low profile while avidly supporting her husband and daughters in everything they do, she perhaps showed Clapton that he could believe in love, after all.

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