Jerry Hall Opens Up About Her Remarkably Close Bond With Mick Jagger Decades After Their Split: ‘He and I Get On Really Well’

More than two decades after their relationship ended amid one of rock music’s most publicized breakups, Jerry Hall has revealed that she and Mick Jagger have reached a surprisingly peaceful place — one where Sunday lunches, grandchildren and even family holidays can bring everyone together.

In a candid interview with British Vogue ahead of her 70th birthday, Hall reflected on the complicated family she and the Rolling Stones frontman built over the years. Rather than dwelling on the painful circumstances surrounding their separation, she described a relationship that has evolved into friendship and mutual affection.

“He and I get on really well,” Hall said, adding that despite stories that have appeared in the press, she now finds herself thinking warmly about her former partner.

It is a striking admission considering how their 22-year relationship came to an end.

From a painful breakup to an unusual friendship

Hall and Jagger became one of rock ’n’ roll’s most recognizable couples after getting together in the late 1970s. They eventually had four children: Elizabeth, James, Georgia and Gabriel.

Their relationship ended in 1999 after Jagger’s affair with Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez resulted in a pregnancy. At the time, the breakup was enormously painful for Hall, who later spoke about how difficult it had been to cope with the collapse of the relationship while raising their children under intense public scrutiny.

Time, however, appears to have changed the way Hall views that chapter.

Speaking about Jagger today, she suggested that mistakes made when people are younger no longer define how she sees him. Hall said people can develop crushes and “do stupid things,” and she appears determined not to carry those old wounds into the present.

For Hall, maintaining a good relationship with an ex becomes especially important when children are involved.

“But I think when you have children with someone it’s important to be friendly,” she explained.

Mick Jagger still comes over for Sunday lunch

Perhaps the most revealing detail is just how integrated Jagger remains in Hall’s family life.

The 82-year-old rocker visits Hall at her Oxfordshire home with his fiancée, choreographer Melanie Hamrick, and their son Deveraux, whom the family calls Dev.

“He comes out here quite a bit, Sunday lunch, him and Mel and their son, Dev,” Hall revealed, describing them simply as “so sweet.”

Hall also had warm words for Jagger as a grandfather and said the children have embraced Hamrick.

Jagger and Hamrick welcomed Deveraux in 2016. The boy is the youngest of Jagger’s eight children, whose sprawling family extends across several relationships and generations.

Jagger is also father to Karis with Marsha Hunt; Jade with Bianca Jagger; Elizabeth, James, Georgia and Gabriel with Hall; and Lucas with Gimenez.

One sprawling family — and somehow, it works

The most remarkable part of Hall’s account may be the relationship between the different branches of Jagger’s family.

Instead of being divided by old relationships and complicated histories, Hall said the children and their mothers have developed an unusually harmonious bond.

“Mick’s a great diplomat,” she said. “All the kids love each other. All the mothers of the kids love each other.”

That closeness was demonstrated when roughly 23 members of the extended family reportedly spent Christmas together on the Caribbean island of Mustique.

For a family formed across several relationships — and followed for decades by the tabloids — Hall acknowledged that the arrangement might seem unusual.

Yet from her perspective, it simply happened naturally.

“It’s just odd, isn’t it? Just worked out that way,” she said.

Jagger’s family now spans several generations

The Rolling Stones singer is father to eight children and his family now includes grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Hall herself shares three grandchildren with Jagger and spoke enthusiastically about this new stage of her life. At her country home, she keeps chickens and said she hopes to pass along some of the simple traditions her own grandmother once taught her — including gardening, games and caring for animals.

Becoming a grandmother has also changed her perspective on responsibility.

After raising her own children, Hall joked that she has already “done my bit,” allowing her to take a more relaxed approach with the grandchildren.

A very different relationship with Rupert Murdoch

Hall’s warmth toward Jagger stands in sharp contrast to the way she described her relationship with her other former husband, media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Hall married Murdoch in 2016. Their marriage ended in divorce in 2022, and she told British Vogue that she has not seen him in several years.

The crucial difference, in Hall’s view, is that she and Murdoch did not have children together.

Not every former couple needs to remain friends, she suggested, especially when there is no shared family requiring them to stay connected.

Hall did not go deeply into the circumstances of that divorce, but acknowledged more generally that divorce can be traumatic.

These days, she says she is not dating and has little interest in changing that. Approaching 70, Hall described herself as happy with her independence and said she does not feel as though anything is missing from her life.

At 70, Jerry Hall wants something simpler

After decades that included international modeling fame, Studio 54, a life intertwined with one of rock’s biggest stars, motherhood, acting and two high-profile relationships, Hall’s priorities have become considerably quieter.

For her 70th birthday year, what she wants most is peace.

She reflected that aging has changed the things she wishes for: younger people may dream of romance or success, while getting older can make peace itself feel far more valuable.

And despite everything that has happened — including the painful end of her relationship with Jagger — Hall insists she would not rewrite her past.

Her philosophy now is simple: life can be difficult, it passes quickly, and people should enjoy as much of it as they can.

Perhaps the clearest example of that philosophy is sitting around her own Sunday lunch table: Mick Jagger, Melanie Hamrick, their young son and the woman who once shared more than two decades of her life with the Rolling Stones legend — no longer defined by the breakup that separated them, but by the family that still connects them.