Patsy Kensit said she was "so codependent" on her children that it became unfair to them, reflecting candidly on the pressures of motherhood in a new interview.

Speaking on Hello! magazine's Second Act podcast, Kensit, 57, said being a mother "broke my heart" as she watched her sons grow up and leave home. "I was so codependent on them to the point it wasn't fair on them. I could sense that in them," she said, adding that for several years she placed too much pressure on her children.

Kensit has two sons: James, 32, whom she shares with Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr, and Lennon, 25, from her marriage to Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher. She said she made decisions to protect their privacy and stability, often prioritising their schooling and routines over career convenience.

When she joined the cast of ITV's Emmerdale as Sadie King, Kensit said she regularly commuted to the Yorkshire set rather than uprooting her boys. "I couldn't have pulled them out of school and put them in one up North," she said. She recalled producers warning her about the commute's risks but defended the choice as necessary to keep her children out of the public eye. She also said she avoided taking them to children's premieres to prevent paparazzi attention, and described her eldest as "pathological about his privacy."

Kensit described the emotional toll of watching her sons become independent. "Being a mother has broken my heart, because they grow and they leave," she said. "So watching them leave home was tough."

Her younger son, Lennon Gallagher, is currently on the U.S. leg of a tour supporting his father. In a separate interview with Vogue, Lennon spoke about growing up in the shadow of Oasis and the eccentricities of his family life, saying his father used to dress him and his half-brother in matching clothes. "I looked f***ing sick when Dad dressed Gene and me in mini-mod parkas for school," he told the magazine, adding that he often had more luck with his mother's wardrobe than his father's.

Kensit recounted a moment when she realised Lennon had been wearing items from her own collection: she found a sought-after Sid Vicious T-shirt on the cover of a magazine and recognised it as hers. She later spotted him wearing another piece in an Instagram post and commented publicly.

Lennon has said the Oasis reunion tour, announced last August, highlighted the scale of the band's success for him: he told Vogue he did not fully grasp how big Oasis had been until they split, recalling classmates recognising the band and his sudden awareness of their fame. He also said the reunion tour will be the first time he has seen his father and uncle perform together since he was a child.

Kensit's comments follow a long career in film and television that has intersected with high-profile relationships and public scrutiny. Her reflections on parenting add to a series of recent public conversations by celebrities about balancing professional life with family privacy and the impact of fame on children.

The interview with Hello!'s Second Act podcast was published Sept. 8, 2025.