Worldwide exclusive!
Lory del Santo (left), Eric Clapton's ex-girlfriend and the mother of Conor (their baby died tragically) is breaking her silence!
She is sharing with Daphne a song, Clapton dedicated to her, for the first time: 'the lady from Verona".
...The song was first hidden away because he wrote it when he was still married to Patti Boyd, the ex-wife of George Harrison, the former Beatle. He had met Del Santo in Milan on a previous Italian tour.
The song was consigned to the vaults when his relationship with Del Santo, which was already strained because both had been seeing other people, fell apart after Conor’s death.
Del Santo plays part of the recording that Clapton gave her during an interview to be broadcast on American television tomorrow night. To watch and hear the clip, click on the link above. Clapton sings:
I fell in love with a lady
from Verona, She’s just as sweet as she
can be.
All of her life she’s been a loner Because she likes to stay
so free.
Later Clapton sings that he loves his lady from Verona “because she makes me feel so good”. He recorded the song in a studio while laying down tracks for an album that he subsequently called August in homage to the month in 1986 when Conor was born.
Del Santo believes that if their child had not died she and Clapton would still be together.
In an interview with Daphne Barak, the American journalist, to be broadcast on CBS’s Entertainment Tonight, she says that prior to Conor’s death, Clapton would lapse into silent moods when he could not stand any noise or even music. She discovered that he was drinking heavily after finding empty vodka bottles...
Adnan Kashoggi Adnan Kashoggi Alberto Repossi
Princess Michael Princess Michael Hassan Yassin
Lory del Santo Conor / Eric Clapton Lady Spencer
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
