Which ex-comic is married to Billy Connolly?
Billy Connolly comedian. Connolly has been married to his second wife, comedian and psychologist Pamela Stephenson, since 1989. He is father to five children: Two from his first marriage, to Iris Pressagh, and three from his second. Connolly became a grandfather in 2001, when Cara gave birth to Walter. In the book "Billy" (and in a December 2008 online interview), Connolly states he was sexually abused by his father between the ages of ten and fifteen. He believes this was a result of the Catholic Church not allowing his father to divorce after his mother left the family. Because of this, Connolly
Billy Connolly the "Billy and Albert" video. When the Fox Network aired "Freedomfest: Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Celebration" in 1988, Connolly was still virtually unknown in the States, but his performance drew attention, particularly from producers, and interest in him grew. In March 1988, his father died after a stroke, the eighth of his life. His mother died five years later, in 1993, of motor neurone disease. Connolly and Stephenson married in Fiji on 20 December 1989; he had been living with her since 1981. "Marriage to Pam didn't change me; it saved me," he later said. "I was going to die.