'We broke up a few times!' Rick Springfield reveals how fame has impacted his 40-year marriage
Rick Springfield feels “very lucky” that his wife didn’t leave him because of his fame. The 73-year-old rock star started dating Barbara Porter just as he started his career as a member of Zoot and tied the knot with her in 1984 but explained that sudden stardom had been a “difficult” thing for them both to deal with and they would “break up” several times in the early days of his fame. He told E! News: “I’ve been a musician since I was 15. I’ve certainly been through it all when success first hit me. It’s a very heady thing, I’m walking down the street one day and no one is looking at me and ...