Two decades after Cheryl married Ashley Cole in Hertfordshire at what was then billed as the 'celebrity wedding of the year,' friends say the singer is still wrestling with heartbreak and regret over the relationship, even as she continues to mourn the tragic loss of Liam Payne in 2024.
For context, the renewed focus on Cheryl's past has been stirred by nostalgic chatter around the 2006 World Cup, when England's footballers and their partners turned the German spa town of Baden-Baden into a rolling tabloid soap opera.
