Cheryl Cole: my marriage was worth fighting for

Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole has said she’s in no doubt that her marriage to Ashley Cole is worth saving.

In an extract from the girl band’s forthcoming biography, serialised in OK magazine this week, she said that discovering the Chelsea player’s infidelity earlier this year she hit the “lowest of the low” but she stands by her decision to stick with him.

She explained: “When I said my wedding vows I meant them. I said them for life - for better, for worse. There’s going to be worse times and better times.

“What’s worth having anyway if it doesn’t take a fight?

“People make mistakes, stuff happens. Ashley’s a free spirit. I’m not his keeper.

“I believe in letting people live their lives and be free, so Ashley can have time with his friends when he wants, he can go out when he wants.”

“I’m not Mrs Perfect, I’ve made mistakes, and if I’d never been given a second chance, God know where I’d be now.

“I believe everybody’s different and that some people are meant to be together forever and some aren’t.

“Society has its rules about marriage but I have my own and I’m changing and learning all the time.”

But that’s not to say everything is perfect between the couple: “I still feel there are things I need to sort out in my head, that some things in my life are a bit up in the air.”