Dame Prue Leith has no regrets over ‘painful’ 13-year affair with late husband: ‘He loved me’-Cydney Yeates-Entertainment – Metro

Dame Prue Leith has opened up about her affair before marrying her late husband (Picture: PA)

Dame Prue Leith has zero regrets about having a 13-year affair with her husband before they were married.

The Great British Bake Off judge, who recently admitted that her mother made her drown a bag of kittens when she was a child, has opened up about her relationship with her late partner Rayne Kruger.

‘I had an affair for 13 years with the man who became my husband, and he was someone else’s at the time,’ the Mirror reports Dame Prue said during her Prue Leith: Nothing In Moderation tour in Bath.

‘I can’t pretend it was right. I never regretted it as I loved him, and he loved me. It all ended well, but it was very painful for a while.’

The South African chef was married to author Kruger from 1974 to 2002, until his death from emphysema aged 80.

At the time of their affair, Kruger was married to Dame Prue’s mother’s best friend.

Dame Prue was married to her late husband Rayne Kruger for 28 years (Picture: Getty)

The couple later went on to marry and have a son, Daniel, before also adopting a daughter, Li-Da, from Cambodia.

Last December, Dame Prue described her actions as ‘absolutely deceitful’ but insisted she was completely besotted by Kruger.

‘I was really happy because I was in love with Rayne, nobody knew about our affair and so I was still great friends with all of his family and his wife who I adored,’ she said on Desert Island Discs.

‘Although this was absolutely deceitful, I could no more have walked away from him than flown to the moon, I was completely in love with him.’

She added: ‘I am not at all proud of the fact that I was an adulteress for all that time but in a sense, I don’t think I had any option, I could not have left him, ever.’

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Dame Prue later found love with her now husband, fashion designer John Playfair, whom she wed in 2016.

‘I do recommend geriatric love,’ she told audiences during her tour.

‘One of the sad things about getting old is that so many think you can’t wear colour. I say just do it, and it is the same about love. What makes you think you can’t fall in love?’

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