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80s music legend Gary Numan<\/a> has revealed a heartbreaking truth on why he cannot imagine himself as a widower after seeing his wife, Gemma O’Neil, navigate serious health challenges. The 68-year-old, who rose to fame as frontman of Tubeway Army before launching a hugely successful solo career, met Gemma in 1992 after they’d been introduced by her father.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The couple married in 1997 and renewed their vows in 2022. Earlier this year, Gemma was left paralysed in her left arm<\/a> after an operation on her spine to treat a herniated disc. Luckily, through physiotherapy, she managed to regain some movement in her lower arm and biceps. But she has other health problems, and Gary is worried for her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking to Daily Telegraph, Gary said Gemma also has a hole in the heart, after suffering a transient ischaemic attack, Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) that caused her heart to suddenly beat much faster than normal, pneumonia, and nutcracker syndrome. She also has a difficult time going through menopause, but she managed to recover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Asked if how would life be without Gemma, Gary answered: “More than how would I cope, is, would I care to be here at all if she wasn’t? No. [But] I wouldn’t end it if she died, because of the children, and I hope she wouldn’t. One of us is going to go first. And being selfish, I hope it’s me. I don’t want to be without her, but I’m really massively healthy, and she’s not.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gary also faced health struggles as he shared on I’m ADHD! No You’re Not podcast with Paul Whitehouse and Dr Mine Conkbayir that he is now 90 per cent deaf<\/a>. He also shared his way of living with Asperger’s syndrome. He said: “This is when I was about seven or eight, so I used to do this [tapping fingers]. And then it was a problem that once I started it, I had to finish it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I’ve learned not to do that now. That took me years to start it and stop it. I also touch my lips in certain places. I still do it now if I’m driving along, if there’s telegraph poles, I automatically count how many times my car would fit between each telegraph pole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I said to my kids the other day, I said ‘I think I’ve grown out of it’. And they all just laughed at me.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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