MCGARRIGLE’S STRUGGLE REUNITED WAINWRIGHT FAMILY
Singer RUFUS WAINWRIGHT has credited his late mother KATE MCGARRIGLE with= bringing his family closer together - the star’s dad made contact after = years of estrangement when he learned of her cancer struggle.
Loudon Wainwright III and McGarrigle divorced when Rufus was just three= years old, and the relationship between father and son has been strained= ever since.
Rufus hit out at his dad in his 2003 track Dinner at Eight, while siste= r Martha penned the song Bloody Mother F**king A**hole about him.
But when Loudon learned his ex-wife was losing her three-year battle wi= th cancer, he dashed to her side - and Rufus is delighted the family has = reconciled.
He tells London’s Evening Standard, "My dad was absolutely marvellous f= or this whole period. He really came to the fore and protected his childr= en and reached out to his ex-wife and made a concerted effort to bury a l= ot of hatchets.
"As did my mother. It wasn’t like they kissed and made up and went out = to dinner, but they came together finally in a beautiful way." Folk singer McGarrigle lost her fight with cancer last month (Jan10). (=
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