In an emotional Instagram announcement, singer Suzanne Shaw broke down in tears as she revealed her “messy and unexpected” split from fiancé Sam Greenfield.
Suzanne Shaw broke down in tears as she revealed her “messy and unexpected” split from fiancé Sam Greenfield.
Telling her followers she is now entering “the era of having the greatest love affair with myself”, the 44-year-old former Hear’Say singer shared the news of the break-up in an emotional Instagram video on Friday (27.02.26), confirming she and Sam Greenfield separated in January.
Suzanne, who became engaged to Sam in 2014 and welcomed their son Rafferty, 10, in 2015, added she had stepped back from social media while navigating the breakup.
The singer – also mother to Corey, 21, who she shares with former partner Darren Day – said about how her separation was part of a broader journey of personal development, six years after giving up alcohol: “I’ve not been online for a little while because I’ve just been navigating some stuff in my life which is a breakup that I’m going through at the moment when I genuinely did not expect I’d be saying this out loud.”
Suzanne added: “It’s been tough, it’s been really tough and I wasn’t actually even going to say anything online but I just thought like the nature of my account is all about mental health, my struggles with my mental health, quitting alcohol, changing my lifestyle, taking up running, all of the things that have just brought my stability.
“And now things have just taken a different road, taken a different path. It’s been tricky but my goodness thank god I have got the tools to navigate this.
“And thank god it’s been six years of not drinking, six years of really dedicating my life to my personal development.
“I’ve not been perfect through this and it’s been a little bit messy but I’ve certainly been able to tap into therapy, I’ve been able to tap into meditation, a little bit of running, understanding that I need to eat well.
“And understanding that I need to just lean into this pain and heal and it is a new chapter of deep healing because for me, I am going into the era of having the greatest love affair with myself.
“It was important for me to share this, it was important for me to close one chapter to move into the next.
“I’ve not known what to say since the start of January but here I am, nearly in March now ready to just go this journey of total true self healing and giving myself the highest quality of love that I should have done a long time ago.”
In her caption accompanying the video, Suzanne asked fans to “respect” that she would not be sharing further details about her split.
Suzanne was previously engaged to Darren Day, a former Celebrity Big Brother contestant.
He left Suzanne and their seven-week-old son Corey on Mother’s Day in 2005 while she was experiencing postnatal depression.
Speaking last year on Vanessa Feltz’s Channel 5 show, Suzanne said Darren “pretty much went out to get a curry and didn’t come back” and added the fact she developed postnatal depression was “no surprise”.
Darren later married Stephanie Dooley and divorced her in 2019.
Two years before her engagement to Sam, Suzanne was married to Heart FM presenter Jason King, to whom she got hitched in 2009 before the couple separated in 2012.
Suzanne Shaw breaks down in tears while revealing split from fiancé Sam Greenfield
