Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten cares for wife Nora full-time amid her Alzheimer’s battle

John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of UK punk legends the Sex Pistols, has illuminated his role in wife Nora Forster’s battle with Alzheimer’s.

Lydon, 64, who has been married to Forster, 78, since 1979, revealed that he’s been acting as his wife’s full-time caretaker since her condition has worsened. (He first made her diagnosis public in a 2018 radio interview.)

“For me, the real person is still there,” Lydon, 64, told the UK Mirror in an interview published Monday. “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.”

“I suppose her condition is one of like a permanent hangover for her,” Lydon continued. “It gets worse and worse, bits of the brain store less and less memory and then suddenly some bits completely vanish.”

Lydon noted that Nora has, despite her worsening condition, never lost sight of his identity. “It’s quite amazing, as the alleged experts we have had to deal with at enormous expense have said, that they have been very impressed that she never ever forgets me, we are constantly there with each other [in her mind] and that bit won’t go,” he said.

“Why pay for professionals to work on this when I think the message is, ‘A bit of love goes a long way,’” he continued.

Lydon stated that he will never put Forster into a nursing home.

The two are currently quarantined in their Venice, Calif., home during the coronavirus pandemic, with Lydon explaining with characteristic bluntness that he doesn’t “need to go out and socialize with buttholes.”

Lydon married Forster, heiress to German daily Der Tagesspiegel, in 1979. “When I first met Nora … we disliked each other so much we were drawn together like magnets,” he told The Guardian in 2014. “She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.”

“I wasn’t interested in John when we first met,” Forster admitted in Lydon’s autobiography, “No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs.” “[But] I fell in love with John because he surprised me. He was pictured really bad, but he had a really sweet attitude.”

Lydon became stepfather to Forster’s daughter Ari Up — herself the lead singer in the groundbreaking female post-punk band The Slits — and eventually, he and Forster also became guardians to Ari’s three children.

Lydon — who was also candid about the financial cost of treating Ari’s breast cancer, which eventually killed her in 2010 — is bitter about the coronavirus keeping his well-regarded post-Pistols band Public Image Ltd. off the road.

“We would have been playing all the way through this,” said Rotten. “Doing it next year isn’t good enough. There’s been no income so I am f–king furious and none of this — let me tell you, I don’t care how communist you believe you are — none of it works without a penny in the bank.”

“The idea of losing Nora is unbearable,” Lydon said in his 2014 Guardian interview. “If one of us goes before the other it will be murder for the survivor. She is older than me but women live longer, so we should die at exactly the same time. That would be perfect.”

Page Six has reached out to Lydon for further comment. .

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