Hall: It's still tough for Mick

Jerry Hall says it will be “very difficult” for Mick Jagger when he returns to the Rolling Stones concert tour that was cut short this year following the death of his partner L’Wren Scott.

The band is set to perform a string of concerts starting later this month after they cancelled their seven-date tour of Australia and New Zealand due to the celebrity stylist’s death in March.

A New York coroner ruled that designer Scott killed herself in her Manhattan apartment.

In an interview with the Daily Mail Weekend magazine, Hall said of her ex-husband’s return to the tour in Australia: “That’s going to be very difficult for him. What a tragedy. She was such a lovely girl and really talented.”

She said it was “still tough for him”.

The band’s rescheduled tour down under has two extra dates added.

Hall said Sir Mick is a “great friend”, and despite their marriage ending, she said: “Actually, we really like each other. We’ve always been friends.”

The Texan model told the magazine she thinks Jagger is “quite the bachelor”, adding: “It probably suits him better not to be married. I think he sees a wife like a candlestick with a snuffer attached – someone to dampen his fun.”

But she said they had “many, many, many happy times”.

Hall said Jagger is “super fit” and the glamorous star told the magazine that the rock star was more strict with their children than she was.

Asked about drugs, she said: “That’s never been much of an issue. Neither Mick nor I take drugs.”

She added: “He’s never been into drugs since I’ve been with him, which was many years ago.”