Phil Collins is looking back on the personal cost of his decades-long music career, admitting that the collapse of his three marriages remains one of his biggest regrets.

During a recent appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” the 75-year-old Genesis drummer and singer spoke candidly about his failed marriages, his five children and the years he spent away from home while building one of music’s most successful careers.

“To some extent, I have to say I regret my marriages falling apart,” Collins said. “Sometimes I jumped. Well, one time I jumped, two times I was pushed. But I wouldn’t have written it like that.”

At the same time, Collins said he cannot look at those relationships only with regret because they gave him his children.

“I’ve got five fantastic kids that I wouldn’t have if that hadn’t happened,” he said. “So I have to balance it.”

Collins was married to Andrea Bertorelli from 1975 to 1980, Jill Tavelman from 1984 to 1996 and Orianne Cevey from 1999 to 2006. He adopted Bertorelli’s daughter, Joely, and is also the father of Simon, Lily, Nicholas and Mathew.

When discussing his first marriage, Collins acknowledged that his demanding schedule with Genesis played a major role in pulling the relationship apart.

“Genesis did, in one year, I think, three American tours, two European tours, and a tour of Japan,” he recalled.

After Collins separated from Bertorelli, he said his Genesis bandmates told him they would have changed their schedule if they had known what was happening at home.

“But that’s easy to say in retrospect,” Collins said. “I was gone, and we grew apart.”

Despite the breakdown of his marriages, Collins said he “always tried to be there for the kids.” He also stressed that he never imagined his life would include three marriages.

“You don’t go into life thinking that,” he said.

His relationship with daughter Lily Collins, star of Netflix’s “Emily in Paris,” has included struggles of its own. In her 2017 memoir, “Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me,” Lily wrote openly about forgiving her father for times when she felt he was not there for her.

“I forgive you for not always being there when I needed it, for not being the dad I expected,” she wrote. “I forgive the mistakes you made. And although it may seem like it’s too late, it’s not. There’s still so much time to move forward.”

Nearly a decade later, their public messages show a much warmer chapter in their relationship. Lily celebrated her father’s 75th birthday in January, telling him, “Love you to the moon and back again.”

Becoming a mother herself has also given Lily a new perspective. She welcomed daughter Tove with husband Charlie McDowell via surrogate in January 2025.

“Now as a parent, I have a newly found understanding and deeper appreciation for everything you’ve done and continue to do,” Lily wrote in a Father’s Day tribute. “Tove is lucky to call you Grandpa P.”

For Collins, the reflections reveal the complicated legacy of a career that brought extraordinary success while demanding significant time away from the people closest to him. Now, decades later, he appears willing to acknowledge both sides of that story.