Bono and Ali Hewson were high school sweethearts and tied the knot in 1982. The duo share children Jordan, Eve, Elijah and John
U2 frontman Bono has opened up about the romance rumours between his wife, Ali Hewson, and bandmate The Edge. Bono and Ali have been married since 1982 and share four children – Jordan, 36, Eve, 33, Elijah, 25, and John, 22. The singer, 65, recently discussed how close Ali is to his pal The Edge, real name David Howell Evans.
He spoke to The Project on Sunday to talk about his upcoming film Bono: Stories of Surrender, which is a documentary about his life behind the mic as U2’s frontman. During the conversation, he said the rumours of a romance between the two was “still a sore subject” for him as he revealed their close relationship.
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In the movie, he even joked that the two were “an item”. Bono said in the interview: “They were the two cleverest in their year.” Ali and The Edge were in the year below him at the same secondary school.
“She [Ali] did seem to be taking an interest in his guitar playing and, as hard as I might practise, I just knew I couldn’t touch this guy,” he added of U2’s lead guitarist.
“So I had to become, you know, the class clown.” Bono revealed the duo are still extremely close and even talk about him ‘behind his back’.
“They’re still really close – and they still talk about me behind my back. They say it’s out of concern.”
The singer went on to discuss how he doesn’t need to “worry about” certain people in his life as they’ve always been “there for him”.
“Edge is one, Ali is another,” he said of the duo. “I’m really one quarter of an artist without Edge, Adam and Larry. And I’m half of a person without Ali.”
Ali and Bono were high school sweethearts, with Hewson telling the Telegraph in 2008: “He was my first real boyfriend. It was 1976 that we got together – the same year that the band formed. I saw their first gig in our school gym.”
In 2016, Bono echoed the same story, explaining at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards: “We were teenagers. We went to the same school, high school.
“It just so happens it was this afternoon [in 1976] I walked her to her bus – isn’t that mad?”
Speaking to the Irish Mirror, Ali previously discussed her three children and said: “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I am just so happy for them, each one of them, you just hope they find their way.”
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