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Nora Forster, the wife of Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, has died at 80 after a years-long battle with Alzheimer’s.

Lydon’s official social media account announced the death of his wife of nearly five decades on Thursday in a heartfelt tweet.

“It is with a heavy heart that we share the sad news that Nora Forster – John Lydon’s wife of nearly five decades – has passed away,” the tweet somberly read.

Forster had lived with Alzheimer’s for the past seven years, with Lydon being her “full-time carer” throughout her battle with the disease.

The social media account asked Lydon’s fans to respect his privacy as he processed the death of the woman he married in 1979.

Lydon, 67, — whose stage name was Johnny Rotten — revealed in a 2020 interview with The Mirror that he was Forster’s full-time caregiver, saying he “won’t let anyone mess up with her head.”

“That person I love is still there every minute of every day and that is my life. It’s unfortunate that she forgets things, well, don’t we all,” Lydon said in the interview.

Forster, a German publishing heiress, lived in London in the 1970s as a music promoter, providing financial support to bands like the Clash, the Slits, and the Sex Pistols.

The punk rock icon and Forster met in 1975 at Vivienne Westwood’s famed punk shop Sex and married in 1979, according to Rolling Stone.

The two remained married till Forster’s death and did not have children.

Forster’s child from her first marriage, Ariane, also known as Ari Up, who co-founded The Slits at 14 in 1974, died in 2010 at age 48 after battling breast cancer.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, which begins with mild memory loss that worsens over time, eventually affecting a person’s ability to carry out essential daily activities, according to the CDC.

Over 5 million Americans were living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2020, with numbers projected to nearly triple to 14 million people by 2060.

Lydon, who told Rolling Stone in February that he believes he’s achieved his goal of raising awareness of the disease, said, “all the things I thought were the ultimate agony seem preposterous now.”

“It’s shaped me into what I am. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. I don’t see how I can live without her. I wouldn’t want to. There’s no point,” he told the outlet.

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