John Wilcockson’s book ‘Lance’ chronicles among other things Lance Armstrong’s relationship with Sheryl Crow.  The two were engaged in 2005 but the constant ticking of Sheryl Crow’s biological clock is what did the two in:

“She wanted marriage, she wanted children; and not that I didn’t want that, but I didn’t want that at that time because I had just gotten out of a marriage, I’d just had kids [Luke, Grace and Bella],” Armstrong, 37, reveals. “Yet we’re up against her biological clock — that pressure is what cracked it.”

The two even tried counselling to help them with the difference:

“but really there’s no way to counsel that situation, because if somebody wants a child — man, that’s the greatest gift you can give to a woman — so who are you to stand there and say I don’t want one. So we were at different points in our lives. We were not compatible on that issue.”

Lance admits the timing was ‘off’:

“I felt like I wasn’t ready . . . I would have been in the future, but not then.”

Sheryl Crow has gone on to adopt her son Wyatt (in 2007) and Lance is now expecting a baby with Anna Hansen (due in June), which as everyone knows was conceived naturally despite Lance battling testicular cancer, which normally renders men sterile.

I am always intrigued by people who, when they are together, deem themselves to be perfect for one another but split up for various reasons:  not ready for marriage or kids, but then go ahead and a couple of years later do that anyways with someone else.  I guess that means the other person wasn’t ‘the one’.

The book will be out in July.

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