Johnny Rotten, the former frontman for the Sex Pistols, just stunned his fans by revealing that he is now a full-time caretaker for his wife Nora Forster, who suffers from dementia.

“Nora has Alzheimer’s,” the 64 year-old punk singer and songwriter told the U.K. Mirror. “I am her full-time carer and I won’t let anyone mess up with her head. For me, the real person is still there. That person I love is still there every minute of every day and that is my life. It’s unfortunate that she forgets things, well, don’t we all.”

Rotten has reportedly been married to the 78-year-old German publishing heiress since 1979, and they made her dementia diagnosis public last year.

“I suppose her condition is one of like a permanent hangover for her,” Rotten explained. “It gets worse and worse, bits of the brain store less and less memory and then suddenly some bits completely vanish.”

He went on to add that as Forster’s condition worsened, they desperately searched for experts to give her the best possible care.

“It’s quite amazing, as the alleged experts we have had to deal with at enormous expense have said, that they have been very impressed that she never ever forgets me, we are constantly there with each other [in her mind] and that bit won’t go,” Rotten said. “Why pay for professionals to work on this when I think the message is a bit of love goes a long way.”

Despite the severity of Forster’s illness, Rotten has pledged to never send her to a nursing home, instead choosing to keep her at their home in Los Angeles, where they have been on lockdown for months amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

“I am under lockdown anyway because I am her full-time carer,” said Rotten. “I don’t need to go out and socialize with buttholes.”

He acknowledged his frustration that his latest band, Public Image Ltd., had to cancel their upcoming gigs because of COVID-19.

“We would have been playing all the way through this,” Rotten said. “Doing it next year isn’t good enough. There’s been no income so I am f—ing furious and none of this, let me tell you, I don’t care how communist you believe you are, none of it works without a penny in the bank.”

Rotten had previously opened up about his relationship with Forster in a candid 2014 interview.

“When I first met Nora, my future wife, we disliked each other so much we were drawn together like magnets,” he said to The Guardian at the time. “She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. She was also well educated, funny and dressed magnificently, with a wink to ‘40s film noir. I have never been unfaithful, though I had plenty of opportunity in the Sex Pistols. We both played the field before we met and found it very wanting.”

“The idea of losing Nora is unbearable,” Rotten added. “If one of us goes before the other it will be murder for the survivor. She is older than me but women live longer, so we should die at exactly the same time. That would be perfect.”

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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