Jerry Hall says it's still tough for Mick Jagger after partner's death

L'Wren Scott and Sir Mick Jagger were long-term partners. Credit: Vince Flores / AFF-USA.COM/AFF/EMPICS Entertainment

Jerry Hall has said it will be "very difficult" for Sir Mick Jagger when he returns to the Rolling Stones tour that was cut short earlier 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 designer's death in March.

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

Rolling Stones cut short their tour following L'Wren Scott's death. Credit: ANDERS WIKLUND / TT/TT News Agency/Press Association Images

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

"It’s still tough for him," she continued.

Hall said she and Wren "got on really well," adding, "She was so good with the children. It’s sad for everyone - the whole family."

Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger pictured together in August 1999. Credit: NEIL MUNNS/PA Archive/Press Association Images

Speaking of her former marriage to Sir Mick, Hall called him "a great friend."

The Texan model told the magazine she thinks Sir Mick is "quite the bachelor."

"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," she added.