Jo Wood is staying single after dating apps disaster
Jo Wood - the ex-wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood - has given up on men for the time being and is content to just be single.
Jo Wood has decided to stay single for now after failing to find a suitable man on dating apps.
The 70-year-old former model was previously married to Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, who she met and fell in love with at a party in 1977, with the pair going on to marry in January 1985.
The two got divorced in 2009 after splitting in 2008 when Ronnie cheated on Jo with 20-year-old Ukrainian cocktail waitress Ekaterina Ivanova.
Jo has had a few relationships since her divorce, including one with celebrity chef Jameson Stocks, who was 24 years her junior, but she is now content to be alone and she definitely won't be logging on again to apps like Tinder, Bumble or Hinge.
In an interview with the latest issue of Closer magazine, she said: "I've tried dating apps and they didn't work for me. At the moment I'm choosing not to date. I know what I'm like in relationships - I throw myself in completely and, right now I don't want that. You don't need a partner to be happy!"
Jo - who has children Leah, 47, and Tyrone, 42, with Ronnie, and son Jamie, 51, from her first marriage to Peter Greene - can still vividly remember how painful it was when Ronnie, 78, was unfaithful to her, and she will never forget the support she received from her friends.
She said: "When I first became single, my girlfriends saved me. They were my lifeline.
"Women need other women; we hold each other up. If you're going through divorce, put yourself first. Go to the gym, eat well, focus on you and forgive - it frees you more than it frees anyone else."
Jo can scarcely believe the hedonistic, rock and roll lifestyle she lived as the girlfriend and then wife of a Rolling Stones band member, admitting the partying and booze and drugs ultimately took their toll.
She said: "In my 20s, I was partying all the time. I was doing so much cocaine I could barely get out of bed in the morning. I was hungover, exhausted and running on adrenaline. Now, I'm calmer, happier, stronger. I might be older, but I feel a hundred times better than I did then. I like who I am now, far more than who I was at 25.
"I treat my body like a Formula One car. If you put bad fuel in, it won't run properly."
Ronnie, 78, has been married to Sally Humphreys - the owner of a theatre production company - since December 2012. Sally is 31 years his junior and they have nine-year-old twin girls, Gracie Jane and Alice Rose.
