Jo Wood has revealed the hilarious nickname given to her by her grandchildren as she admitted they know all about her wild drug-taking rock and roll past.
The former wife of The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was known for embracing the party lifestyle in her younger days.
And the star admitted her grandchildren are now calling her ‘Gangsta Granny’ after she revealed some of her past antics to them.
Speaking on Good Housekeeping UK’s podcast My Life in A Biscuit Tin, Jo said: ‘I know I shouldn’t say this, but I was in the car with them and they were giggling, two of them [grandchildren, Maggie and Kobe].
‘They went, “Gran, have you done any drugs?” I said, “Of course I have, but I don’t recommend it”.
‘I said, “Because it didn’t get me anywhere except lots of sleepless nights”.
Jo Wood has revealed the hilarious nickname her grandchildren have given her as she admitted they know about her wild drug-taking rock and roll past
The former wife of The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was known for embracing the party lifestyle in her younger days (pictured with Kate Moss in 1997)
Explaining how she believes it is important to be honest with your family she added: ‘You can’t be dishonest, because they’ll find out.
‘So, I tried to warn them it was a waste of time, but I was in a very special situation. So then they said, “We’re going to call you Gangster Gran from now on.”‘
Jo was married to rocker Ronnie for 24 years between 1985-2011 and the two share children Leah, 46, and Tyrone, 41. She also became stepmother to Ronnie’s son Jesse, 48, from his first marriage.
Jo is also mum to another son, Jamie, 50, from her first marriage to clothing entrepreneur Peter Greene.
The star has 10 grandchildren in total, four from Jamie, two from Leah and four from Jesse.
Last year Jo revealed she had left her wild nights of partying behind for an eco-friendly countryside cottage.
The TV personality moved to the old farmhouse in 2019 and has embraced ‘off-grid’ living, generating her own electricity and nurturing her own vegetable patch.
Aside from WiFi, she more or less lives self-sufficiently and has traded in her days of drinking and joints for homegrown veg and is even creating a capsule supplement called Longevity to boost her health.
Explaining how she believes it is important to be honest with your family she added: ‘You can’t be dishonest, because they’ll find out’ (pictured with Ronnie Wood in 1999)
Last year Jo revealed she had left her wild nights of partying behind for an eco-friendly countryside cottage (pictured)
The TV personality moved to the old farmhouse in 2019 and has embraced ‘off-grid’ living, generating her own electricity and nurturing her own vegetable patch
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Speaking to The Telegraph, Jo admitted that she didn’t have an addictive personality which made it easier for her to walk away from the party lifestyle after it suddenly dawned on her one day that way of living wasn’t what she wanted.
She explained: ‘I could drink all night, suffer the next day and not touch a drop for a few days. I never had a problem with it. I used to smoke a joint every evening and then one day I thought “No, I don’t want this any more” and stopped. I’m lucky like that.’
After ditching her unhealthy lifestyle, Jo converted to organic food in 1991 after she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, this was later revealed to be a misdiagnosis and she actually had a perforated appendix.
‘I laid in hospital and said to myself “from now on, I will be an organic girl”,’ Jo explained.
Her obsession with organics led to her interest in plastics and chemicals in cosmetics which led to her fragrance company Jo Wood Organics.
The star got Ronnie on a healthy diet, and her son Jamie even joked that he left home because he couldn’t stand her being so health conscious anymore.
She added: ‘I’m going to live forever. That’s the plan. I certainly want to make sure to live to an old age because I want to see what’s going to happen with my grandchildren.’
